Lord Perrin, is it really necessary to take those women with us? They'll be nothing but trouble, they will, the whole lot of them, and you know it well. I see, he said after a moment, and then, mildly, Do you mean to flout the law entirely, my son? Valda almost laughed. 'He was not in the chest anymore. As will you, Maisia.
She only let herself be afraid when it was logical to be, and right then, she was terrified. For the Asha'man, nobody in the city had any idea what a black coat meant. Somebody giggled. She watched faces grow dogged and defensive and apologetic, and wondered whether her own looked the same.
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