Nothing about her said that she was shielded, and in the presence of men who146A CROWN OF SWORDScould channel. worked with colored beads, and slim Merana in her gray, whose frown made Rafela seem a picture of Aes Sedai serenity. For anyone other than the Amyrlin, breaking that seal was accounted as serious as assaulting the Amyrlin's person. Acerbity melted into a smile, if a small one.
The marriage knife she wore hanging outside her snowy apron sparkled with a full dozen stones. d to do, a quarter of an eye on the ship and the rest on the riverbanks, the city on one side and the half-rebuilt granaries on the other. The Mayeners were puffed up over being the rear guard, laughing and shouting boasts to the Cairhienin of what they would have done had the Shaido returned, though in fact they were not last. From the man's tone, it was not clear whether he meant that that was what the law called for or that it would have been more merciful.
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