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Once he looked at the ground behind them, just to reassure himself that the land did take hoofprints; scraped turf and bent grass marked their passage plainly, yet ahead the ground was undisturbed. What kind of trouble? Why do you care about helping them? Nynaeve glanced at the red fringe on Liandrin's shawl. an extra wariness in the way they glanced past Nynaeve, in her lightning-paneled dress, and the woman she held by a silver leash. His feet dangled from one of the chairs at the table; he swung them like a boy.

To horse! At her command the Warders scattered to their mounts, still wary, and the Aes Sedai, all but Leane, glided away from the palanquin to their own horses. If they did not search the storerooms, search the whole keep for him. Rand stared wonderingly at his hand sticking out of the red sleeve of his coat. The others were back, too, more than before, one for each of the masked.