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!  __Moiraine__ POV

[Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] has been on the road for three months.[1] Her skin still feels too tight from the Three Oaths. The latest news for [Cairhien|Cairhien (City)] has four Houses vying for the [Sun Throne|Sun Palace]. She wears her %%ot [kesiera]%% and one of [Tamore|Tamore Alkohima]'s riding dresses. She has been traveling incognito as [Alys|Moiraine Damodred], a minor [Cairhienin|Cairhien (Country)] noble. She is in [Canluum] interviewing [Jurine Najima] with her daughters [Colar|Colar Najima] and [Eselle|Eselle Najima]. Her husband [Josef|Josef Najima], baby [Jerid|Jerid Najima] and other sons were killed in mysterious fire. [Josef|Josef Najima] was always lucky.[2] He went to fight the [Aiel] at Lady [Kareil]'s request. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] has lost interest, though, because [Jerid|Jerid Najima] was born in the wrong place to be the [Dragon Reborn|Rand alThor]. 

She has scratched off many names in her book, but hundreds remain.[3] [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] returns to her inn, [The Gates of Heaven]. Five sisters including one [Red|Red Ajah] are staying at same inn. One is %%brown [Felaana Bevaine]%% of the [Brown Ajah]. The innkeeper is Master [Helvin]. They think she is a [wilder]. This is bolstered by a merchant at the inn, Mistress [Asher], who really is a [wilder]. The sisters have been coercing her but she has refused. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] finds that two new sisters have arrived, %%gray [Larelle Tarsi]%%, a [Gray|Gray Ajah], who taught her classes and %%blue [Merean|Merean Redhill]%%. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] fears that they will reveal her identity, but instead they cover for her. At twenty-two, she is too old to enroll as a [novice|novices]. 

%%green [Cadsuane Melaidhrin]%% appears; [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] met her once two years ago. She briefly came out of retirement at the beginning of the [Aiel War]. Tales of [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin]: she kidnapped a [Tarabon] king who could [channel|True Source], kidnapped the King of [Arad Doman] and Queen of [Saldaea] to stop a war, assaulted an [Amyrlin|Aes Sedai]. [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin] shepherds the three of them to a private room. She questions [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] about being incognito then asks [Larelle|Larelle Tarsi] and [Merean|Merean Redhill] about her. They embarrass [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred], even revealing that she and [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] were caught with the mice for %%red [Elaida|Elaida do Avriny aRoihan]'s%% bed and switched. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] says she is going to [Chachin], then regrets her words. Her next targets are [Avene Sahera] in a village on the way and Lady [Ines Demain] in [Chachin]. [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin] brings up age, shocking the others. She says %%white [Meilyn|Meilyn Arganya]%% is older, and when they are gone, %%green [Kerene Nagashi]%% will be strongest. There is a sharp drop to next five, one retired, including [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] and [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] when they reach full strength.[4] She is the strongest in the last thousand years. [Meilyn|Meilyn Arganya] and [Kerene|Kerene Nagashi] are the strongest in the last six hundred. [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin] orders [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] to go with [Merean|Merean Redhill] and [Larelle|Larelle Tarsi] to [Chachin] to help keep her from doing anything dumb. Both sisters object as strongly as [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred]. They only met the day before and both want to stay in [Canluum] two or three days longer. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] has been [Aes Sedai] four months.[5] [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin] says she is already taking more risks than she knows.[6] [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin] will be checking on her during the night. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] wonders about [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin] bringing up [Meilyn Arganya] and [Kerene Nagashi], two of [Tamra|Tamra Ospenya]'s searchers.
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] Setting the approximate timing for the second half of the book.
\\[#2] Another case of a lucky man meeting an untimely death, courtesy of the [Black Ajah]. ([NS,Epilogue])
\\[#3] In [New Spring|NS,Novella] the novella there was a reference to some of the names in her book: [Saera Deosin], m [Eadwin], [Kari al'Thor] m [Tamlin|Tam alThor] Second Captain of the [Illianer|Illian (Country)] Companions. ([New Spring|NS,Novella]) It is omitted in the novel.
\\[#4] Two of them are [Lelaine Akashi], a current [Sitter|Sitters], and [Romanda Cassin], retired. The fifth is [Elaida|Elaida do Avriny aRoihan].
\\[#5] In [New Spring|NS,Novella] the novella she has worn the shawl for five months. ([New Spring|NS,Novella]) Evidently Jordan rethought the timing.
\\[#6] What does [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin] know?
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