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one. Different reasons came to mind, now.

"She is bloody being flogged by bloody Trollocs," Doesine said hoarsely, Touches of

her native Cairhien had appeared in her voice, something that seldom happened except

under stress. "When they are done.... She can see the Trollocs' cook kettle boiling

over a fire, and a Myrddraal watching her. She must know it will be one or the other

next. Burn me, if she doesn't break this time..." Doesine brushed perspiration from

her forehead irritably and drew a ragged breath. "Stop joggling my elbow. It has

been a long while since I did this."

"Three times under," Yukiri muttered. "The toughest strongarm is broken by his own

guilt, if nothing else, after two! What if she's innocent? Light, this is like

stealing sheep with the shepherd watching!" Even shaking, she managed to appear

regal, but she always sounded like what she had been, a village woman, She glared

around at the rest of them in a sickly fashion, "The law forbids using the Chair on

initiates. We'll all be unchaired! And if being thrown out of the Hall isn't enough,

we'll probably be exiled. And birched before we go, just to drop salt in our tea!

Burn me, if we're wrong, we could all be stilled."

Seaine shuddered. They would escape that last, if their suspicions proved right. No,

not suspicions; certainties. They had to be right! But even if they were, Yukiri was

correct about the rest. Tower law seldom allowed for necessity, or any supposed

higher good. If they were right, though, the price was worth paying. Please, the

Light send they were right!

"Are you blind and deaf." Pevara snapped, shaking the Oath Rod at Yukiri. "She

refused to reswear the Oath against speaking an untrue word, and it had to be more

than stupid Green Ajah pride after we'd all done as much already. When I shielded

her, she tried to stab me! Does that shout innocence? Does it? For all she knew, we