The quavering light of saidin was there, but he shut it away. For a brief moment, Rand stared. Rand followed the others out, but at the door he stopped beside the Aes Sedai and watched Mat heading down the candle-lit hall. Half the sisters with me think you should be handed over to the Reds, and if that happens, you will wish you were a novice again, with nothing worse to look forward to than a switching.
The Seanchan was overconfident? The only thing that kept him from going back right then was Mat's anguished murmurs. You've likely just convinced everyone in the room you are in some deep part of the Game. I'd never ask one such as yourself to be playing in a common room. This one seems pale to us because it is a weak reflection, a world that had little chance of ever being.
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