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that bind me." With the last word, she began to howl.

Seaine jumped, then swallowed hard. She personally knew the pain of removing a

single oath and had speculated on the agony of removing more than one at once, but

now the reality was in front of her. Talene screamed till there was no breath left

in her, then pulled in air only to scream again, until Seaine half expected people

to come running down from the Tower itself. The tall Green convulsed, flinging her

arms and legs about, then suddenly arched up till only her heels and head touched.

the gray surface, every muscle clenched, her whole body spasming wildly.

As abruptly as the seizure had begun, Talene collapsed bonelessly and lay there

weeping like a lost child. The Oath Rod rolled from her limp hand down the sloping

gray surface. Yukiri murmured something with the sound of a fervent prayer. Doesine

kept whispering "Light!" over and over in a shaken voice. "Light! Light!"

Pevara scooped up the Rod and closed Talene's fingers around it again. There was no

mercy in Seaine's friend, not in this matter. "Now swear the Three Oaths," she spat.

For an instant, it seemed Talene might refuse, but slowly she repeated the oaths

that made them all Aes Sedai and held them together. To speak no word that was not

true. Never to make a weapon for one man to kill another. Never to use the One Power

as a weapon, except in defence of her life, or that of her Warder or another sister.

At the end, she began weeping in silence, shaking without a sound. Perhaps it was

the oaths tightening down on her. They were uncomfortable when fresh. Perhaps,

Then Pevara told the other oath they required of her. Talene flinched, but muttered

the words in tones of hopelessness. "I vow to obey all five of you absolutely."

Otherwise, she only stared straight ahead dully, tears trailing down her cheeks.

"Answer me truthfully," Saerin told her. "Are you of the Black Ajah?"

"I am." The words creaked, as if Talene's throat were rusty.
The simple words froze Seaine in a way she had never expected. She had set out to