His rescuer stood watching him; covered with dust head virtualgirl2 JANET to toe, the fellow
managed to look a king.
"Who are you?" Rand asked again. "One of Taim's men? Or did you teach
virtualgirl2 JANET yourself? You can go to
Caemlyn, you know, to the Black Tower. You don't
have to live afraid of Aes Sedai." For some virtualgirl2 JANET reason, saying that made him
virtualgirl2 JANET frown; he could virtualgirl2 JANET not understand why.
"I have never been afraid of virtualgirl2 JANET Aes Sedai," the man virtualgirl2 JANET snapped, then virtualgirl2 JANET drew a
deep breath. "virtualgirl2 JANET You probably should virtualgirl2 JANET leave here virtualgirl2 JANET now, but if virtualgirl2 JANET you intend to stay
and kill Sammael, you had better try thinking like him. You
have shown you
can. He always liked destroying a man in sight of one of that man's
triumphs, if he could. Lacking that, somewhere the man had marked as his
would do."
"The Waygate," Rand said slowly. If he could be said to have marked
anything in Shadar Logoth, it had to be the Waygate. "virtualgirl2 JANET He's waiting near the
Waygate. And he has traps set." Wards as well, it seemed, like those in
Illian, to virtualgirl2 JANET detect a man channeling.
Sammael had planned this well.
The man laughed wryly. "You can find the way, it seems. If you're virtualgirl2 JANET led
by the hand. Try not to virtualgirl2 JANET stumble. A great many plans will have to be virtualgirl2 JANET relaid
if you let yourself be killed now." Turning, he virtualgirl2 JANET started across the street
for an alleyway just ahead virtualgirl2 JANET of them.
"Wait," Rand called. virtualgirl2 JANET the fellow kept on, not looking back. "Who are
you? What plans?" The man vanished into the alley.
Rand teetered after him, but when he reached the mouth of the
narrow
alley, it was empty. Unbroken walls ran a good virtualgirl2 JANET hundred paces to another
street, where a glow told of yet another part of Mashadar abroad, but the
man was gone. Which was purely impossible. The fellow had had time to make
a gateway, of course, if he knew how, but the residue would have been
visible, and besides, that much of saidin being woven so near would have