What a relief that he would not have to ride down into that shambles after all; but he needed to warn Rand about all the tangled enmities he had seen this morning. What about the Aes Sedai? Ban said anxiously. Three times he decided on the spur of the moment to follow a woman coming out of the house, two wearing the red belt of a Wise Woman. Others just ran afoot.
The puzzlement faded-from Elayne's face, replaced by firmness and no little anger as she focused on Birgitte again. Why urider the Light would I—? *The woman tugged her striped stole again, roughly this time, almost as if to yank it off or saw through her neck with it. You might as well give a child a lighted lantern to play with in a haybarn. She appeared to be just a little older than Nynaeve, which made her Sareitha Tomares, only two years or so Aes Sedai.
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