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"Well, I suspect this could be arranged," Shielyn said, leaning forward, sounding eager "There would have to be pay you to send some of your apprentices to the White Tower to train with us"

"We already send wowene sniffed "Token sacrifices sent so ill not become suspicious of your Windfinders Your women often seclude themselves, or come reluctantly I would have that practice stop--there is no reason to deny potential Windfinders to your people"

"Well, ould be the difference?" Shielyn asked

"The women you send would be allowed to return to you after their training," Egwene said "Wise Ones, I would have Aiel apprentices sent to us as well Not reluctantly, and not to become Aes Sedai, but to train and learn our ways They, too, would be allowed to return, should they desire it, once they are finished"

"It would have to be more than that," Amys said "I worry ould happen to women who become too accustomed to soft wetlander ways"

"Surely you wouldn’t want to coan

Bair cut in "They’d still be apprentice Wise Ones, Egwene al’Vere Children who need to coree to this plan; so about it unsettles "

"If we let the Aes Sedai set hooks into our apprentices," Melaine said, "they will not soon be pulled free"

"Do you want thewene said "Do you see what you have in me, Melaine? An Amyrlin Seat as trained by the Aiel? What sacrifice would it be worth to your people to have more like me? Aes Sedai who understand ji’e’toh and the Three-fold Land, who respect Wise Ones rather than seeing them as rivals or wilders?"

The three Aiel settled back at that, looking at one another, troubled

"And what of you, Shielyn?" Egwene said "What would it be worth to your people to have an Aards you as friends and who respects your ways?"

"That could be valuable," Shielyn ad the women you send to us have a better temperament than those e have seen so far I have yet to ing fro Aes Sedai," Egwene said, "who are set in their ways If ere to send you Accepted instead, they would be much more pliable"

"Instead?" Shielyn said i"

"It could be," Egwene replied "If we allow Sea Folk channelers to return to you instead of requiring that they stay in the Tower, you will no longer have such a strong need of the Aes Sedai teachers"

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