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I thought you were dead, Annoura gasped, eyes nearly starting out of her head. If you're not inside the palace or under my nose, you'll have bodyguards. He even had a twinkle in his eye! I do this all the time, and they never know. Too many sisters saw little need for courtesy.

Lan must be insane. Some would be stilled, of course—Sheriam, a few of the more prominent so-called Sitters—but only sufficient to make the rest fear putting a foot wrong again; not enough. They glanced at the Asha'man, too, without exactly seeming to, then scanned both groups of Acs Sedai just as circumspectly. Nearby, a tower stood seemingly whole.