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And those other Aes Sedai in Cairhien. The sun stood almost halfway to its crest, now. She wore a man's coat and tight breeches, just like Selande and the rest of the women, with a sword on her hip. Many women would not let it pass.

Quite plump and not tall—in truth, for a Kandori, she was short—Pevara was also quite pretty, with a merry twinkle in her dark eyes and a ready smile. Rand had pointed straight to Alanna with never so much as a glance. Rand's face was drawn and twisted, the face of a man who wanted to scream, or maybe weep, and was fighting it down with every scrap of his fiber. She bit her lip, hesitating.