By the time we reach Tar Valon, the Light willing, I'll have two or three times as many men as I do now. Strangely, there were more women than in the sisters' camp, though they seemed fewer at first glance, among so many men. Reanne did not faint, but fear filled her face, and she raised pleading hands. Elayne's eyes shot open wide, and with a gasp that seemed to take all the air in her, she convulsed like a netted trout, slippered heels drumming on the pavement.
The relief in her voice—and in her scent—was so strong that Perrin stared. So Sheriam had been right about Merana. Somebody out here, just where they happened to come out of the gateway, could not be good news. Ispan paced, swishing her skirts and frowning at the dust and old cobwebs.
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