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There were no openings in the hallway this tiht He had deht pathway back The Eelfinn were liars and cheats, but they seemed to be liars and cheats like the Aes Sedai Mat hadout whatever occurred to hi more and more nervous; Mat kept on forward, footsteps in tie how he fought? He would have to be ing distance now In fact, he had that trouble noalls and floor were disturbingly hard to judge

Tho his gold What was she to hi for the same reason that Mat was--because it felt as if it needed to be done That tenderness in Thom’s face was not what Mat had expected to see

The hallway ended abruptly in a five-sided arch The roo on the floor No signs of the fight before were visible, no blood on the floor

Mat took a deep breath and led the way through He tensed as he saw Eelfinn here, crouching or standing in the shadows, hissing and growling They did not h some yipped quietly Shadows ht at one, he could almost mistake them for ordinary men and women, but the way they moved in darkness, sometimes on all fours…No man walked like that, with the anxious tension of a chained predator Like an angry hound, separated froet to your throat

But they held to their bargain None attacked, and Mat began to feel right good about himself once they reached the other side of the roootten the better end, but that was only because they had fought like cowards, punching a ht had started

This time he had been ready He had shown them that Matrim Cauthon was no fool

They entered a corridor with the faintly glohite stea triangles, curved on the sides like scales Mat began to breathe easier as they entered one of the rooh his eye socket still hurt like the nethers of a freshly gelded stallion

He stopped in the center of the rooht pathway That hat he would get No doubling back and forth this ti as he walked

"What?" Tho up from Moiraine with alar ain"

"But we discovered you don’t need theruain, looking down the hallway ahead Was that ood dozen rooms away? No, itsteaue isn’t what it once was But I think I understood what you said The bargain youHad he been speaking in the Old Tongue again? Burn him And as that down the hallway?

"Well," Noal said, "you said--as part of the bargain--so like ‘you foxes can’t knock us down or try to kill us or anything’"

"Sure did," Mat said

"You said foxes, Mat," Noal said "The foxes can’t hurt us"

"And they let us pass"

"But what about the others?" Noal asked "The Aelfinn? If the Eelfinn can’t hurt us, are the Aelfinn required to leave us be as well?"