Perrin winced. The frozen smile returned in an instant. It was not just that he had never expected to hear those words out of her mouth; they seemed peculiar, as if she knew the sounds but not the meanings. She had not told anyone that that was done with beyond going back; she knew she had spoken the words, and no one else needed to know.
I ask forgiveness, Garenia mumbled at Nynaeve. That's as may be, Min, but— That's as is, sheepherder, she cut in firmly, and if you say different again, you had best Carefully. Of the two indisputably frightening things about her, the lesser was that she so often succeeded.
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