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He scowled, opening his eyes and pulling off the scarf, revealing the angular face beneath "You try nized," he said "Every butcher, innkeeper and bloody backrooer seems to knohat I look like these days"

"The Black sisters were planning to have you assassinated," Elayne said

"What?" Mat asked

Elayne nodded "Onefor you for soed "They’re Darkfriends No doubt they want us all dead"

"This was different," Elayne said "It see your wits about you the next while"

"That’ll be a trick," Birgitte noted "Seeing as to how he doesn’t have any wits in the first place"

Mat rolled his eyes "Did I eons, sitting in a pool of your own blood, looking for all the world like you’d seen the losing end of a battlefield skir the Black Ajah," Elayne said "The details are none of your concern Birgitte, have you a report frorounds?"

"Nobody saw Mellar leave," the Warder said "Though we found the secretary’s body on the ground floor, still warhed "Shiaine?"

"Gone," Birgitte said, "along with Marillin Gemalphin and Falion Bhoda"

"The Shadow couldn’t leave theh "They know too much They had to end up either rescued or executed"

"Well," Mat said, shrugging, "you’re alive, and three of theood outcome"

But the ones who escaped have a copy of your ht She didn’t speak it, however She also didn’t mention the invasion that Chesitte soon, of course, but first she wanted to consider it herself

Mat had said the night’s events had a "reasonably good outcoht about it, the , but she didn’t knohen The Shadoanted Mat dead, but as Birgitte had pointed out, that was no surprise In fact, the only certain result of the evening’s adventures was the sense of fatigue Elayne felt That and a week confined to her roo off his ave this back You should know that it probably saved erly, then hesitated "Were you able to…"

"Copy it? Not perfectly But to an extent"