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I tried to stop her, Loial said. She was not accustomed to weeping openly, but then she was not accustomed to feeling so helpless, so useless. Rand stopped breathing as the man came over to right the toppled stand. If someone had snubbed her so before others, she would have been in a fury.

Nynaeve thrust the pole of the lantern into her hands and turned to pull another from under her saddle girth. Most of the men at Fal Dara accepted Rand; he trained with Lan, and Lord Agelmar had him at table, and most important of all, he had arrived at Fal Dara in company with Moiraine, an Aes Sedai. She turned for the doors. Elayne was born with the spark in her; it was not a matter of choosing.