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! __Moiraine__ POV

After bed check, %%blue [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred]%% packs and heads to the stable. Master [Helvin] keeps a log book with descriptions of all the horses. The stableman [Kazin] saddles [Arrow] but she leaves her pack horse behind. %%green [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin]%% might have set servants watching for her to show a sign of leaving. She rides to the city gate. She sees three men leave before her, a younger and older [Malkier] and the [Arafellin|Arafel] she saw leaving [The Gates of Heaven]. Wanting to question him, she follows them on the road north. They pass through a village and [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] asks after [Avene Sahera]. 

As evening approaches, she almost gives up on following the men, but one abruptly leaves the road.[1] She is a good tracker and follows the lone man. She finds him sitting beside a pond alone. She tries to take his sword but he is too fast. He grabs her and throws her in the pond. This shocks her out of %%ot [saidar|Said]%% but she immediately recovers. While she is drying, the other two men arrive. They are [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran], [Ryne|Ryne Venamar] and [Bukama|Bukama Marenellin]. [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran] and [Ryne|Ryne Venamar] play a sword game which [Ryne|Ryne Venamar] wins every time.[2] [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] asks for their escort to [Chachin] and they agree. [Ryne|Ryne Venamar] is handsome and friendly while [Bukama|Bukama Marenellin] and [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran] are taciturn. She never gets a chance to ask [Ryne|Ryne Venamar] about [The Gates of Heaven]. As they bed down, she weaves wards of [Spirit|One Power] around them so she will know if they move. At one point when they change guards, she hears [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran] say he does not trust [Aes Sedai]. Angry, she weaves [Air|One Power], [Water|One Power] and a touch of [Earth|One Power] and dumps a bunch of the pond on him. They think it must be [Shadowspawn] but then she reveals that she is [Aes Sedai]. [Ryne|Ryne Venamar] looks at her with awe and fear.[3] She goes to sleep thinking about him.
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] This is actually a ploy to trap her. ([NS,Ch20])
\\[#2] [Ryne|Ryne Venamar] is a better swordsman than [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran].
\\[#3] Wondering whether or not she is [Black Ajah]?
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