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Egwene had sent him away from her door, but that didn’t ood was it to walk the grounds? He should be indoors, where he had a chance of doing soood Gawyn made his way to one of the servant entrances

The low-ceilinged hallway inside was clean and well lit, like the rest of the Tower, though the floor was set with dull gray slate instead of glazed tiles An open roo, off-duty guardsave thenizing so? What are you rin They were a pipes with the off-duty Tower guardsave salutes, though he was no longer their commander They didn’t see theht brown hair and thick fingers "My Lord," he said "Nothing important, my Lord Just a little harmless fun"

"The Warders don’t like this kind of behavior," Gawyn said "You know that, Celark If it gets around that you’re staying up this late dicing, you’ll never convince an Aes Sedai to take you"

Celark gri reluctant in that grimace "What?" Gawyn said "Out with it, man"

"Well, my Lord," Celark said "It’s that some of us, we aren’t so sure that ant to be Warders Not all of us ca to train with the best And the rest of us…well, things have changed now"

"What things?" Gawyn asked

"Foolish things, ht, of course There’s early sparring to a Warder, it’s all a man should aspire to But some of us, we’d rather not see e have now end You know?"

Gawyn nodded slowly

"When I first ca more than to be a Warder Now I don’t know that I want to spendabout the countryside"

"You could be Warder to a Brown or White," Gawyn said "And stay in the Tower"

Celark frowned "With all respect, ht be just as bad Warders…they don’t live like otherupward, toward Egwene’s distant quarters He would not go seeking that door He forced his gaze back down to Celark "There’s no sha a different path"

"The others ," Gawyn said "Gather those of you ant to res and report to Captain Chubain toer he could use you as a division in the Tower Guard He lost a lot of men in the Seanchan attack"

Celark relaxed visibly "You’d do that, my Lord?"

"Of course It was an honor to lead you men"