06/03/2026 23:11

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He read his pages aloud sitting on my knee—he might have read all day, had I allowed it—and did his numbers, so I let him go. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness. Smoothing their feathers required a good half an hour from him and Nalesean both. By and large, Aes Sedai admitted change slowly, but once they did, for most it was as if things had always been that way.

Not that he read much. She liked Melaine—the woman was much less thorny since she was with child; with twins, actually—but at the moment Egwene could have strangled238A CROWN OF SWORDSher cheerfully. Min closed her own 'mouth. Elayne paused to tie her cloak ribbons and arrange the hood around her face, red-gold curls peeking out all around.