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my sister and Egwene have gone?тАЭ

тАЬThey are not here?тАЭ Min forgot everything in a rising flood of panic. Before she knew what she was
doing she had seized his sleeves, peering up at him urgently, and forced him back a step. тАЬGawyn, they
started for the Tower months ago! Elayne and Egwene, and Nynaeve, too. With Verin Sedai and. . . .
Gawyn, I . . . I. . . .тАЭ

тАЬCalm yourself,тАЭ he said, gently undoing her grip on his coat. тАЬLight! I didnтАЩt mean to frighten you so.
They arrived safely. And would not say a word of where they had been, or why. Not to me. I suppose
thereтАЩs scant hope you will?тАЭ She thought she kept her face straight, but he took one look and said, тАЬI
thought not. This place has more secrets than. . . . TheyтАЩve vanished again. And Nynaeve, too.тАЭ Nynaeve
was almost an offhand addition; she might be one of MinтАЩs friends, but she meant nothing to him. His
voice began to roughen once more, growing tighter by the second. тАЬAgain without a word. Not a word!
Supposedly theyтАЩre on a farm somewhere as penance for running away, but I cannot find out where. The
Amyrlin wonтАЩt give me a straight answer.тАЭ

Min flinched; for a moment, streaks of dried blood had made his face a grim mask. It was like a double
hammer blow. Her friends were gone тАФ it had eased her coming to the Tower, knowing they were here
тАФ and Gawyn was going to be wounded on the day the Aes Sedai died.

Despite all she had seen since entering the Tower, despite her fear, none of it had really touched her
personally until now. Disaster striking the Tower would spread far from Tar Valon, yet she was not of the
Tower and never could be. But Gawyn was someone she knew, someone she liked, and he was going to
be hurt more than the blood told, hurt somehow deeper than wounds to his flesh. It hit her that if
catastrophe seized the Tower, not only distant Aes Sedai would be harmed, women she could never feel
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close to, but her friends as well. Theywere of the Tower.

In a way she was glad Egwene and the others were not there, glad she could not look at them and
perhaps see signs of death. Yet she wanted to look, to be sure, to look at her friends and see nothing, or
see that they would live. Where in the Light were they? Why had they gone? Knowing those three, she
thought it possible that if Gawyn did not know where they were, it was because they did not want him to
know. It could be that.

Suddenly she remembered where she was and why, and that she was not alone with Gawyn. Sahra
seemed to have forgotten she was taking Min to the Amyrlin; she seemed to have forgotten everything
but the young lord, making calf-eyes that he was not noticing. Even so, there was no use pretending any
longer to be a stranger to the Tower. She was at the AmyrlinтАЩs door; nothing could stop her now.

тАЬGawyn, I donтАЩt know where they are, but if they are doing penance on a farm, theyтАЩre probably all
sweat, and mud to their hips, and you are the last one they will want to see them.тАЭ She was not much
easier about their absence than Gawyn was, in truth. Too much had happened, too much was happening,
too much with ties to them, and to her. But it was not impossible they had been sent off for punishment.
тАЬYou wonтАЩt help them by making the Amyrlin angry.тАЭ

тАЬI donтАЩt know that theyare on a farm. Or even alive. Why all this hiding and sidestepping if theyтАЩre just