There was something else, too. Take what you have paid for. Others started toward Rand, now that he was alone, but he turned in the other direction and hurried away. Do you think to keep him to yourself, Alaine? The two women smiled at each other while their eyes threw daggers.
The Amyrlin Seat! Ice in the pit of her belly, she broke into a run, but before she left the women's apartments, she had lost him around too many corners and beyond too many people. Not me, he said fervently. Byar and a white-cloaked guard of a hundred rode into the village at his heels, half the men he had with him. Some sat behind slanted tables, checking large ledgers and sometimes making an entry.
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