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For their part, the Aes Sedai looked past the Asha'man, or through them; they might as well not have existed. You just could not tell with Aes Sedai. Some of the Acs Sedai turned their heads. They had been watching the veiled Maidens uneasily; now they crowded back from the Asha'man, pressing together like fish in a barrel.

' 'Rand, I don't know what to say, but— Rand seemed not to hear. The worst of it was, she had suggested this, after hearing Elayne and Nynaeve talk of the Sea Folk. Again the ground exploded, and again, again, each time a little farther from the encircled wagons. The worst of it was, they were both shielded.