Why would I—? Drawing a deep breath, she gathered dignity. Her dark Cairhienin dress bore four thin stripes of color across the bodice, and she had added slashes in the skirts, white for her Ajah. Reading of it was not at all the same as tasting it And the river had been at least half a mile wide where they boarded this boat with its two oddly leering oarsmen. Nynaeve said the exact same thing, the way women did, but without the shoulder pat.
For a time he just sat there, peering at the floorboards, elbows on his knees and the medallion swinging from its thong around his neck. Or rather its image in Tel'aran'-rhiod, an image as real as the original in many ways. Here's the thief-catcher, Nalesean said, stuffing the token into his coat. She had not really lied when he asked what viewings she had kept back.
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