The pair blinked in surprise. I shouldn't have spoken to you so. A distant dog barked, and another, closer, answered furiously until it suddenly yelped and fell silent. ey confronted difficult years working their way into her good graces, years before they would be allowed to enter any Ajah at all.
Loial's huge eyes rolled toward them,, then toward the Wise One; if his ears had been limp before, now they wilted completely, and his long eyebrows dropped to his cheeks. Sunlight slanted through the ornate stone screen. The man was reprehensible! Minders? She was not sure which would be worse: that he had flung that offhand insult on purpose, or that he had done so without realizing. The sisters were all to be summoned one by one, and any who refused was to be shielded and confined as a suspected member of the Black Ajah.
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