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"At least there are plenty of hares,up beside S, "but I had hoped Who are they?" Her falcon shifted on her thick glove, the bells on its jesses jingling "Why, it looks like sonized the here?
The three drew rein before her, their horses panting steam Parelean looked as wideeyed as his dapple Lacile, her pale face nearly hidden in the deep cowl of her cloak, ing anxiously, and Arrela’s dark face seeently, "dire news! The Prophet Mase with the Seanchan!"
"The Seanchan!" Alliandre exclaion!"
"Ither tooshohite mare up on Alliandre’s other side Without Perrin about for her to try to i dress was cut quite modestly, with a neck up under her chin She still shivered "Masema dislikes Aes Sedai, and the Seanchan keep woue in vexation Dire news indeed, if true And she could only hope Parelean and the others retained enough of their wits to at least pretend they had simply overheard talk by chance Even so, she had to be sure, and quickly Perrin ht already have reached Masema "What proof do you have, Parelean?"
"We talked to three faro, ht a woman as taken to Masema and remained with him for three hours"
"We were able to trace her all the way to where Maseht the creature was Shadon," Arrela put in, "but they seemed fairly reliable" For her to say any man not of Cha Faile was fairly reliable was the saht he was honest as a bell
"I think IS’s reins "Alliandre, take Maighdin and Berelain with you" Any other ti of Berelain’s lips over that would have been a "Parelean, Arrela and Lacile will accompany me -- " A man screamed, and everyone jerked
Fifty paces away, one of Alliandre’s greencoated soldiers was toppling froed Guard fell with an arrow standing out fro the trees, veiled and wielding bows as they ran More soldiers fell Bain and Chiad were on their feet, dark veils hiding their faces to the eyes; their spears were thrust through the straps of the bow cases on their back, and they worked their bows slances toward Faile, too There were Aiel all around, hundreds it see in Mounted soldiers lowered lances, pulling back in their own circle around Faile and the others, but gaps appeared iet this news of Masema to Lord Perrin," Faile told Parelean and the to gaze took in Alliandre and Maighdin And Berelain, too "All of you, ride like fire, or die here!" Barely waiting for their nods, she suited actions to words, and dug her heels into S’s flanks, bursting through the useless ring of soldiers "Ride!" she shouted So low on S’s neck, she urged the black ht as her naht break free And then S screa forith the sharp snap of a breaking leg Faile flew through air and struck hard, ed facedown into the snow Fighting for air, she struggled to her feet and snatched a knife from her belt S had screamed before she stumbled, before that awful crack
A veiled Aiel at her wrist with a stiffened hand Her knife dropped froers, and before she could try to draw another with her left hand, the , but the felloas as wide as Perrin and a head taller He seemed as hard as Perrin, too, for all the impression she made on hi ease hich he handled her, first rooting out all of her knives and tucking the one of her own blades to cut her clothes away Almost before she knew it, she was naked in the snow, her elbows bound together behind her back with one of her stockings, the other tied about her neck for a leash
She had no choice except to follow hih the snow Her skin pebbled with the cold Light, how she had ever thought this day anything less than icy? Light, if only soed to escape with the news of Masema! To carry word of her capture to Perrin, of course, but she could escape somehow The other was more important
The first body she saas Parelean, sprawled on his back with his sword in one outflung hand and blood all over his fine coat with the satinstriped sleeves There were plenty of corpses after, Winged Guards in their red breastplates, Alliandre’s soldiers in their dark green hel vainly against the jesses still gripped in the dead h
The first other prisoners she saw, kneeling a down their chests, were Bain and Chiad, each naked, unbound hands on her knees Blood ran down across Bain’s face and matted her flamered hair Chiad’s left cheek was purple and swollen, and her gray eyes looked slightly glazed They knelt there, straightbacked, i Aielhly to her knees beside theht, Shaido," Chiad rily
"She does not follow ji’e’toh," Bain barked "You cannot raying Maiden said absently Bain and Chiad gave Faile regretful looks, then settled back to their calainst her knees, Faile did not knohether to weep or laugh The tomen she would have chosen to help her escape from anywhere, and neither would raise a hand to try becaus