12/02/2026 06:11

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My mother, she said firmly, always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. I know they're Cairhienin, but I never heard of such goings on. Be welcome to Stedding Tsofu. Beyond what even you can know.

They were not precisely unfriendly, the Aes Sedai, but rather distant and aloof, as if preoccupied. Others he could read, and wished he could not. I found them, Lord Ingtar. His burns were all but healed, leaving only a few pink scars that were already fading.