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ed he were anywhere but here,84A CROWN OF SWORDSeven with his mother, who wanted to marry him off. A few men were easier to kill than a small army, too, even if most of them could channel. Rand only stared at her, silent. She most certainly wanted to know what could shake an Aes Sedai enough to make her sweat.

You have never faced something you could not fight, child, he said gently, something so strong your only choice is to flee or be consumed alive. He himself was still in his muck, with his dusty green coat hanging open and the silver foxhead caught in the neck of his half-undone shirt. By the conventional view, the Aiel were finally defeated at the Battle of the Shining Walls, before Tar Valon A woman as proud as she was beautiful, as fiery as she was proud.