Elayne was already unbundling the clothes on the bed. Her sign was a woman's hand gripping a thorny rose stem with a white blossom. She touched the curtains. From outside the open gates came the sounds of the Amyrlin's pikemen and archers forming up in the square.
No one will think it odd if I go early today. Reluctantly, he sought the void; he did not want to, but it was for this that Tam had taught him, and he knew he could never make the shot without it. The two-handed sword on his back, with its curved blade, was scabbarded and hilted in black-and-red leather. His face was not masked this time, and it was horrible with almost healed burns.
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