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Moiraine looked to Mat "And you, Matrier Does your eye pain you ed

"I would Heal the wound if I could," Moiraine said "But even were I still as strong as I once was, I couldn’t restore your eye" She looked down, releasing Thoreal?"

"Oh, yes," Thoe bracelet out of his pocket He put it on her arh to at least take the pain away They placed it onmore succulent I asked for it, actually, as one ofit against

"I passed through the ter’angreal," she said "The ancient treaty held for both of us, though with the doorway destroyed, there was no simple return I knew from…previous events that I would not escape unless you came for me, no matter what my demands were or how carefully I worded them So I used them for the best"

"What did you ask for?" Mat asked "Beyond the angreal?"

She smiled "I shall keep that toMatrim For my life"

"Then I guess we’re equal," he said "You saved me froallop of it since then"

"And your wound?"

"Doesn’t hurt so much" Actually, it throbbed Really, really badly "No need for you to waste strength on it"

"Still afraid of the One Power, I see"

He bristled "Afraid?"

"I should think you have good reason for that wariness" She looked away fro of events in our lives are soood"

Yes, she was still Moiraine Quick with a ht--after what she had been through--to lecture on suffering Light! She had knohat she would have to go through, and yet she had still pulled Lanfear into that ter’angreal? Maybe Mat was not the hero here, and maybe Noal was not either

"So what now?" Tho back on a stuood

"I must find Rand," Moiraine said "He will need my help I trust he has done well in my absence?"

"I don’t know about that," Mat said "He’s half mad and the whole bloody world is at one another’s throats" Colors swirled Rand eating a e

She raised an eyebrow

"But," Mat acknowledged, "he’s got most everybody pointed toward the Last Battle And Verin says he ht," Moiraine whispered "How?"

"I don’t know"

"This changes everything," she said, s ‘By the Dragon caon was the wound repaired’"

"Mat keeps saying we should be having a festival or soh et drunk"

"I’d say that’s a certainty," Mat added "Anyway, Rand’s been busy Elayne says he’s got so up soon"

"Elayne is Queen, then?"