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Shaidar Haran Very bad "I…" she said, licking her dry lips How to twist this to a victory? "It is according to plan It is merely a--"

"I know your heart, Graendal I can taste your terror"

She squeezed her eyes shut

"Mesaana has fallen," Shaidar Haran whispered "Three Chosen, destroyed by your actions The design builds, a lattice of failure, a fra to do with Mesaana’s fall!"

"Nothing? Graendal, the dreaht with Mesaana said that they tried to move, to draw the Aes Sedai to a location where their trap could be sprung They were not ht in the White Tower They could not leave Because of you"

"Isaiven you The failure is yours, Graendal"

She licked her lips again Her entire one dry There had to be a way out "I have a better plan, more bold You will be impressed Al’Thor thinks I am dead, and so I can--"

"No" Such a quiet voice, but so horrible Graendal found she could not speak So had taken her voice "No," Shaidar Haran continued "This opportunity has been given to another But Graendal, you shall not be forgotten"

She looked up, feeling a surge of hope Those dead lips were saze fixed on her She felt a horrible sinking feeling

"No," Shaidar Haran said, "I shall not forget you, and you shall not forget that which comes next"

She opened her eyes wide, then howled as he reached for her

The sky rurass was spotted black, just as in the real world Even the wolf drea A fire burning Blood drying The dead flesh of a beast he didn’t recognize Eggs rotting

No, he thought No it will not be

He gathered his will Those scents would vanish They did, replaced with the scents of sued doves, purple finches They appeared, bursting to life in a circle around hiritted his teeth The reality spread fro from the plants Above hiht streaht He does! I can srass

A wolf appeared before hirizzled from years of life Perrin thrilled in his power It was real

And then he saw the wolf’s eyes Lifeless

The scent turned stale and wrong

Perrin eating fro within hi into the wolf drealy; to try to control this place absolutely was like trying to contain a wolf in a box

He cried out, falling to his knees The misty not-Hopper vanished in a puff and the clouds crashed back into place Lightning exploded above hi scents returned

Perrin knelt, sweat dripping frorass Too stiff

Perrin thought of Faile in their tent back in the Field of Merrilor She was his home There was much to do Rand had coht of the real world grounded Perrin, keeping hily