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Six Stories775That made Mat blink until he saw two tiny cloth-wrapped bundles lying in front of it where the looters must have dropped them. Could theyTa'veren693have returned already? They had been driven back once, at Falme. The sinewy Maiden -would set down a covered tray and list those who had asked to see him, then give him a look of rebuke when he repeated that he would see no one. At the main gates, holding her linen dust-cloak close awkwardly because of the bundle on her back, she bowed, hands

Efalin must be wondering whether providing Sevanna with an escort of Maidens, as if she had been Far Dareis Mai once herself, was enough to balance that. Another of the girls spanked his bottom for pinching hers. Carridin gaped. Except for his eyes, he looked no different than Mat remembered.