Their eyes glittered in the lamplight. Burning them's worked so far because the other Houses are all waiting to see what you're up to, and thinking you must have powerful allies to risk insulting them. Half my work is to keep them digging, and the other half to keep them out of this village. Moiraine did not sound upset, or even surprised.
Unless some fool decides to be brave because his woman is watching, and I have to make an example. You humans are always so rash and hasty. I've never heard it, but there is no reason we would not be born in those worlds, yet the lives we lived would be different lives. If she let him go now, he would chase after her as strongly as before, convinced she was too weak to defeat him after all, too weak to stop him from doing with her as he wished.
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