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But Light! What would she have done without the woe of feeling Blood and bloody ashes, as she going to get over theseon a whi
"This will be for the best," Elayne said firmly, to distract attention from her treacherous eyes "I’ to that She didn’t believe that Ches of a specific invasion of Andor; she thought that the Black sister had been speaking of the Trolloc invasion of the Borderlands Birgitte took the newsup soldiers on the Andoran borders Elayne would very much like to have control of Cairhien; if Trollocs were to march on Andor, her sister realht use
Before the conversation could go further, the door to the hallway opened, and Elayne would have juitte The Warder never knocked She strode in, wearing a sword--reluctantly--and her knee-high black boots over trousers Oddly, she was followed by two cloaked figures, their faces hidden by hoods Norry stepped back, raising a hand to his breast at the irregularity of it Everyone knew that Elayne didn’t like to see visitors in the s people here…
"Mat?" Elayne guessed
"Hardly," a faures lowered his hood, revealing a perfectly beautiful masculine face He had a square jaw and a set of focused eyes that Elayne remembered well fro so
"Galad," Elayne said, surprised at the war out her hands toward him She’d spent most of their childhood frustrated with hiood to see him alive and well "Where have you been?"
"I have been seeking truth," Galad said, boith an expert bow, but he did not approach to take her hands He rose and glanced to the side "I found that which I did not expect Steel yourself, sister"
Elayne frowned as the second, shorter figure lowered her hood Elayne’s olden hair Those eyes that had so often looked at Elayne as a child, judging her, hter, but as a queenin her chest Her ase was alive The Queen still lived
Morgase locked eyes with Elayne, then--oddly--Morgase looked down "Your Majesty," she said with a curtsy, still rehts, controlled her panic She was Queen, or she would have been Queen, or…Light! She’d taken the throne, and she was at least the Daughter-Heir But now her own mother came back from the bloody dead?
"Please, sit," Elayne found herself saying, gesturing Morgase toward the seat beside Dyelin It did Elayne good to see that Dyelin wasn’t dealing with the shock any better than Elayne She sat with her hand gripping her cup of tea, knuckles white, eyes bulging
"Thank you, Your Majesty," Morgase said, walking forward, Galad joining her and resting a hand on Elayne’s shoulder in a co way He then fetched hiase’s tone was more reserved than Elayne remembered And why did she continue to call Elayne that title? The Queen had coarded her ether as she sat "You renounced the throne, didn’t you?"
Morgase gave a stately nod