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So was different from when he had visited before There was no dust on the floor to , and used the dust to confuse hi that visitors ht arrive? Who knew in a real walk before Or had it been a short one? Time blended here It seemed that they ran for many hours, yet it also felt like mo like a striking adder It had not been there awas intricately carved wood, with an i vines that seemed to double back on one another and make no sense
All three pulled to a halt "Mirrors," Noal said "I’ve seen it before That’s how they do it, obscuring things with mirrors" He sounded unnerved Where did one hide ht place; Mat could sest here He set his jaw and stepped through the doorway
The rooh the rooht tips and only the one doorway Those glowing yellow strips ran up the sharp ends of the rooht empty pedestals stood, black and ominous, one at each point
It was exactly the sa at its center
She was clothed only in a fine white ure obfuscated but not hidden Her eyes were closed, and her dark hair--curly but no longer in perfect ringlets--fluttered as if in a wind blowing up from beneath Her hands rested atop her sto that looked like aged ivory on her left wrist
Moiraine
Mat felt a surge of emotions Worry, frustration, concern, awe She was the one who had started this all He had hated her at times He also owed her his life She was the first one who hadback--he figured that she had been the etic, unyielding And selfless
She had dedicated everything to protecting three foolish boys, all ignorant of what the world would demand of them She had determined to take them to safety Maybe train them a little, whether they wanted it or not
Because they needed it
Light, her motives seery with her, but it didset of emotions! Those bloody foxes--how dare they keep her like this! Was she alive?
Tho So Mat stepped forward to pull Moiraine free As soon as his hands touched theback, shaking his hand
"It’s bloody hot," Mat said "It--"
He cut off as Tholy
"I don’t care," the glee beginning to stea into that ht sank into his ar, and she looked frail enough that she otten how sood head shorter than he was Tho her in it Her eyes were still closed
"Is she…" Noal asked