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For a woman the death that comes without control of the Power is less horrible, but it is death just the same. We were taught that they will be, and must be, and yet that fulfillment is treason to everything else we were taught. You did what you could. Egwene thought her cheeks were wet, though she hid her face with a corner of her blanket.

Egwene wished she did not think of Rand when she looked at the mountain. You have work to do. It had been high in the day when they gathered around the Stone in the stedding but here the sun stood low toward afternoon in a gray sky. Yes, Logain is in Tar Valon by now, gentled and safe, I suppose, but some of our sisters died to overpower him.