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What that meant exactly, he had no idea, except for having once heard, ' 'When the blades are bare, even the Mistress of the Ships bows to the Master of the Blades. His coat appeared to have been slept in for a week; it always did, even an hour after one of the serving women ironed it. Five Aes Sedai in their shawls came to meet him as he descended the broad stairs. He pressed his hands against his temples.

have done dif-iferently today—if Min was right, and Elayne loyed al'Thor, then that dreadful fate was reason enough to kill. 804A CROWN OF SWORDSAnxiously, her eyes sought for Therava, but most of the seventy or so Wise Ones stood together looking at something farther up the slope, blocking her view. No one sister here could equal any of the Forsaken by herself, but linked in circles was another matter,202A ng him what Berelain had written about the Sea Folk on the ships, about the Jendai Prophecy and the Coramoor, an