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Mat stepped down into the hallway after her, wearing a scarf up around his face, his wet brown hair plastered to his head His eyes darted froitte knelt by Elayne’s side "Are you all right?" she asked urgently
Elayne nodded in exhaustion "I got myself out of this one" In a way "Did you happen to do the world a favor and kill Mellar on your way in?"
"Mellar?" Birgitte asked, alarmed "No Elayne, there’s blood on your dress!"
"I’m fine," she said "Really, I’ve been Healed"
So Mellar was free "Quickly," she said "Search the hallways The Guards and the Kin ere guarding this place--"
"We found theitte said "Stuffed into the bottom of the stairwell Dead Elayne, what happened?" To the side, Mat poked at Teer wound in her chest
Elayne pressed her hands to her abdoht, wouldn’t they? "I did so to scream at me for it But would you first please take me to my rooms? I think we should have Melfane look at me Just in case"
An hour after the failed assassination attewene, Gawyn stood alone in a small room that was part of the Amyrlin’s chambers He’d been released from the weaves that had held him, then told to stay put
Egwene finally strode into the room "Sit," she said
He hesitated, but her fierce eyes could have set candles aflame He sat down on the stool This s The doorway led out to the larger sitting room where he’d been captured in weaves; a doorway off of that roowene shut the door, sequestering the two of the about in the rooh the door Egwene still wore red and gold, and she had golden threads woven into her dark hair Her cheeks were flushed with anger at hiwene, I--"
"Do you realize what you have done?"
"I checked to see if the wo the discovery of an assassin outside her door"
She folded her arms beneath her brsts He could al has drawn half of the White Tower They saw you captured The assassin probably knows, now, about wene! You talk as if I did it on purpose I was only trying to protect you"
"I didn’t ask for your protection! I asked for your obedience! Gawyn, don’t you see the opportunity we’ve missed? If you hadn’t scared Mesaana away, she’d have walked into my traps!"
"It wasn’t one of the Forsaken," Gawyn said "It was a man"
"You said you couldn’t see the face or ure because it was blurred"