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Min glanced to the side A tall, lean man in a red Domani coat hustled toward them from the docks His shirt had once been fine and ruffled, but was norinkled and unkeht Iralin That’s it Master of the docks

"Iralin?" Rand asked "What is going on here? What have you done?"

"What have I done?" thethose ships for the spoiled food! Anyone who eats it gets sick and dies The people won’t listen Several groups tried to storm the docks for the food, so I decided not to let the it"

The ry before Min remembered him as peaceable

"Lady Chadmar fled an hour after you left," Iralin continued "The other members of the Council of Merchants ran within the day Those burning Sea Folk claim they won’t sail away until they’ve unloaded their wares--or until I give the for the city to starve itself, eat that food and die, or go up in another riot of fla here What have you been doing, Lord Dragon?"

Rand closed his eyes and sighed He did not apologize to Iralin as he had the others; perhaps he saw that it would not have hts upon his shoulders, merchant He cannot watch over each and every--"

"It is all right, Min," Rand said, laying his hand on her ar his eyes "It is no more than I deserve Iralin Before I left the city, you told me that the food on those ships had spoiled Did you check every barrel and sack?"

"I checked enough," Iralin said, still hostile "If you open a hundred sacks and you find the saure out the pattern My wife has been trying to figure out a safe rain If there’s any safe grain to be had"

Rand began walking toward the ships Iralin followed, looking confused, perhaps because Rand hadn’t yelled at hi low in the water, ed atop it

"I would speak with your Sailmistress," Rand called

"I am she," said one of the Sea Folk, a woht black hair and a pattern of tattoos across her right hand "Milis din Shalada Three Stars"

"I made a deal," Rand called up, "for food to be delivered here"

"That one doesn’t want it delivered," Milis said, nodding to Iralin "He won’t let us unload; says that if we do, he’ll have his archers loose on us"

"I wouldn’t be able to hold the people back," Iralin said "I’ve had to spread rue"

"You see e suffer for you?" Milis said to Rand "I begin to wonder about our Bargain with you, Rand al’Thor"

"Do you deny that I a her eyes She see away frouess that I do not You ant to board the Whitecap, I suppose"