The case clock balanced the door to her sitting room, and her bedchamber and dressing room beyond. Unconsciously she thumbed the golden Great Serpent ring on the first finger of her right hand. My robe, she said, and for once Breane was quick to hand her one. On her knees, Alviarin repeated every word that Elaida had said, though she wondered why it was necessary.
Elayne had not been so glad to see anyone since . She did not like him; as she saw it, her husband had set off down a road that likely would end with his head on a pike over a gate in Tar Valon, and Rand had put his feet on that road. They were the ones Lews Therin had been raving about, them and all the rest of the Asha'man. A wide feathered mask covered her face more completely than Moghedien's did, but she would have known that determined stride, known that woman, from any angle in any light.
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