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She often wondered whether Elaida had had any hand in the death of that one, Sierin Vayu; certainly the Black Ajah had not. She must have been over forty, Nynaeve. Staring at nothing. The other two men, both Cairhienin, he did not know, but he could guess, by their youth and the ribbon tying their hair if nothing else, that they were part of Selande's society.

Which made Someryn snap back, of course, and Modarra too, and Meira spoke words that would have brought a challenge had they not been Wise Ones, and Alarys spoke harsher, and Belinde. She appeared to be just a little older than Nynaeve, which made her Sareitha Tomares, only two years or so Aes Sedai. Rand carefully set his full goblet on the floor beside his chair. This could have qualified to start those dice rolling in his head—a head that would have been cracked open for sure without t