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Mat beca as he attacked The ghola shocked, actually backed away Mat sla the flesh, then spun and knocked the dagger froed forward, ras

It went down Its o down As it threw itself to its feet, Mat slashed the ashandarei’s blade at its heel He neatly severed the ghola had been human, it would have collapsed Instead, it landed without even a wince of pain, and no blood seeped free of the cut

It spun and lunged at Mat with clawed fingers He was forced to stu the ashandarei to ward it away The creature grinned at him

Then, oddly, it turned and ran

Mat cursed Had sooing for his men!

"Retreat!" Mat called at theht h Talhed, but did not chase down the soldiers Instead, the thing kicked over the first lantern, causing it to wink out It ran around the circle, kicking at each one, plunging the street into darkness

Bloody ashes! Mat chased after the creature If it hts out, with that cloud cover, Mat would be left fighting it unable to see!

Tal his own safety--leaped forward and snatched his lantern up to protect it He fled down the street, and Mat cursed as the gholaood lead, but the gholaot to hi up the steps of a nearby building The ed for him, and Talmanes stumbled backward as Mat ran toward theers and splashed oil across the front of the building The dry wood ca across the laholam It leaped for Talmanes

Mat threw his ashandarei

The broad-bladed spear was not , but he did not have a knife handy He aiholam’s head One would have never known that, for he missed pitifully Fortunately, the weapon dipped down and passed between the ghola heavily to the paving stones Tal

Bless this luck of holam stood up and made a motion to follow Talmanes, but then looked down at what had tripped it The creature looked at Mat with a wicked grin, half its face cast in the light of the burning building The creature picked up Mat’s ashandarei--foxhead medallion still tied to the front--then whipped its hand to the side, tossing the weapon away The ashandarei crashed through aand passed into the burning building

La there were only now noticing the fight happening in their proxiave Mat a look, and they ainst the door into the burning building and broke in The ghola flames They blazed quickly, and Mat’s heart thumped with alarm as the creature came for him, unnaturally fast

Mat reached into his coat pockets with sweaty fingers Right before the ghola for Mat’s neck--Mat pulled sohola placed on a grill, and the gholam screeched in pain It stumbled, wide-eyed, as it looked at Mat

Who held a foxhead medallion in each hand

He whipped the thelow as Mat whipped the it on the ar up another step "How?" it dehtly know myself" Elayne had said her copies weren’t perfect, but it seeholarinned, spinning the second lared at hi It dashed inside, perhaps deciding to flee Mat was not about to let it escape, not this ti doorway, reaching out a hand as Talmanes tossed his ashandarei to hi the hola, the heat fro Talhola Matup his ashandarei to block the gholaed fro in the fire, and the wood smoldered at the end It left a trail of s the ashandarei, the back end leaving a whirl of sholam tried to strike at hi one of thethe creature in the face It howled and stu Mat stepped forward, slaainst thethe creature again

He pushed forward, slashing with the ashandarei, and several of the creature’s fingers flew free Sure, it did not bleed and did not seem to feel pain froholaone now It leaped forward in a blur, but Mat spun and sliced down the creature’s tan shirt, exposing its chest Then he whipped the second hola blood across the wall

Mat grunted The ghola hallway Mat eating froht this creature Not for long That did nothis ashandarei becoainst the ghola the secondit duck But then he kicked the third one