“Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes in the roof. As I look for her, I register things: the soggy floorboards. The smell of almonds, like her. An old claw-footed bathtub in a corner. So many holes everywhere that this place is simultaneously inside and outside.”
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“People are people, low or high.”
“The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.”
“Anyone but Aes Sedai would have gaped at her. As it was, Romanda very nearly spluttered.”
“Well, it was done, and that was that. What could not be cured must be endured.”