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that bloody law as though lecturing a half-wit. Well, we'll talk about that later. To Aes Sedai, it was probably better to be dead. Mat would have gone, too, if Nynaeve and Lan had not been in his way.

Aeldene's actions had started others thinking. It would take a larger head than hers not to feel tight, stuffed with as many worries as she had. Had he been twenty years younger—Lightnings43well, twenty-five—and she not trained by the Tar Valon witches. I am Annoura Larisen, my Lord Dragon.