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"I will see to that," Rand said "I need you to gather your soldiers"

"I don’t see many of the other lads here… No, wait There’s Votabek and Redbord" He waved to a pair of the toughs Min had noticed earlier They hesitated, then walked over

"Durnham?" one of them asked "What’s this?"

"It’s time for the lawlessness in the city to end," Durnhas, clean it up The Lord Dragon has returned"

One of them spat to the side He was a burly man with curly black hair, Domani skin, and a thin mustache "Burn him He left us I--" He cut off as he saw Rand

"I’ the ain"

The oing to pay us Might as well see e can do here"

"Naeff," Rand called, waving the Asha’man forward He and the Maidens stepped up froateway back to the Stone I eapons, armor and uniforms"

"I’ll do it i theh, into this building here I’ll clear a place for the gateway inside it But no soldiers are to co at the street "Bandar Eban has suffered enough beneath the hands of outsiders Today, she will not know the hand of a conqueror"

Min stepped back, and watched onder The three soldiers hastened into the building and cleared out the urchins When Rand saw theers to run errands They responded Everyone responded to Rand, when they took tiht it soe, saw hope return as a gli about Rand they could trust So, at least, they hoped they could trust

The three soldiers sent a few of the irls to fetch other forinal three soldiers stepped out of the building, wearing silvery breastplates and sireen The men had combed their beards and hair and found some water to wash their faces As quickly as that, they stopped looking like beggars and became soldiers A bit smelly, but soldiers nonetheless

The woman Min had noted earlier--the one she was certain could learn to channel--came over to speak with Rand After a bit, she nodded, and soon had gathered women and men to fill buckets fro clean the faces and hands of those who approached

People began to gather around Soht in the flow The wo them to work Some to seek out the wounded or sickly, others to take up swords and unifor where their parents were, if they had any

Min sat down on the box that Rand had been sitting on Within the hour, he had a group of soldiers five hundred strong, led by Captain Durnhalancing down at their clean clothing and silvery breastplates as if a directly As he was speaking to one woan to shuffle and , his skin broken by terrible lesions The crowd kept its distance

"Naeff," Rand called