Incongruously, Egwene noticed that her dress had tiny blue flowers embroidered in a wide Tairen maze around the bottom, a band that made the divided skirts seem one when she was still. He was between the wolf and the bear with nowhere to run. The wandering alley gave way to a street, and there was no talking then to amount to anything. *286A CROWN OF SWORDSSiuan glared after him as though he had been badgering her the whole time.
Outland merchants in fine woolens leaped right along with locals in brocaded silk vests or those useless coats slung on their shoulders. A clatter and curses as a jack-lever slipped announced wagonwrights making repairs, and a distant tapping of hammers told of farriers reshoeing horses. It would not hurt to build our stores up once more. They didn't, of course—they knew the truth—but if they hadn't been so matter-of-fact about it, about me just being a child, I could have been hurt, or even killed.
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