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Faile had to be safe; she just had to be. He was a fine one to talk; he would run as hard as he could to avoid his mother and the young Ogier woman she had chosen for him. done then, and Sealed to the Flame. I don't want punch, Egwene said curtly.

You have your own secrets. Wary of the Asha'man they might be, yet Maidens being Maidens— Aiel being Aiel—risk only made taunts more fun. I would not keep you from them. Which was how he found himself on a bench in front of a cheap tavern not far from the riverfront called The Rose of the Elbar, drinking from one of the dented tin cups chained to the bench.