How? Put every Wise Woman in Ebou Dar to the question? How many are there? A hundred? Two hundred perhaps? The sisters in the Tarasin Palace, they would notice this, I think. If both of Mandelain's wives can love him, I suppose three women can manage to love you. How could they not? They were Aes Sedai. Shoulders wide enough to make him seem shorter than he was slumped under the weight of responsibility.
o the murmuring crowd at the end, the broad river made an open path of choppy green water to the wave-tossed bay. Some men who can channel begin to hear voices. Enough to cause trouble, particularly with their Wise Ones channeling, but not so many that anyone will suspect me. There was an old saying in the Two Rivers, though how you said it and what you meant depended on circumstance and who you were.
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