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They’d all fallen Thua shuddered How had he come to this? He was just a ht Smoke rose frooing How could this be happening?
He needed to keepEast He’d make for Arafel The other Borderlands couldn’t have fallen, could they?
He cli chokevine Like wor woozy He reached the hilltop; the world was spinning He fell there, blood seeping fro moved in front of him He blinked Those clouds above were a te black and brown approached with a sleek grace Myrddraal!
No He blinked the tears and blood from his eyes No, those weren’t Myrddraal They werered veils over their faces They walked at a crouch, scanning the terrain, short spears worn on their backs
"Light be praised," he whispered "Aiel" He’d been in Andor when Rand al’Thor had coon Reborn He had taa Why was the lassy and hard The Aielface
The man’s teeth had been filed to points His sa stuttered, looking at that horrific lee in this man’s eyes as he reached in for the kill These weren’t Aiel They were soon Reborn, sat quietly in his dreaently around hi his skin with their condensation
His throne for the night was a flat boulder on a h the clouds at a narrow valley This wasn’t the real location It wasn’t even the World of Dreaht Forsaken, the place he’d been told was so dangerous
No, this was one of his own ordinary dreams He controlled them now They were a place he could find peace to think, protected by wards while his body slept beside Min in their new camp, surrounded by Borderlanders, set up on the Field of Merrilor Egas there, with armies marshaled He was ready for that He’d counted on it
On the morrow, they’d hear his de the seals--he was going to do that, regardless of what Egwene said No, these would be the deoing to Shayol Ghul to face the Dark One
He wasn’t certain what he’d do if they refused him They’d find it very difficult to do so So irrational
He breathed in deeply, peaceful Here, in his dreareen As he remembered them In that nameless valley below, sheltered in the Mountains of Mist, he’d begun a journey Not his first, and not his last, but perhaps the most important One of the most painful, for certain
"And now I coain Ahere, to the place where he’d first confronted the killer inside him The place where he’d first tried to flee from those who tranquility Calmness Harmony