to make the merchants' guards look soft. She was imagining a lot of things,
today. She did not usually allow her imagination to run away with her this
way.
Master Cole's eyes popped open. &asiansex quot;It's just a story he'll be telling
them, Cenn. Just a story, man." His eyes drifted shut again. You could
never tell when Master asiansex Cole was really napping.
"asiansex You never heard, smelled or saw asiansex anything you did like, Cenn," Master
al'Dai said. He was Bili's asiansex grandfather, a lean man with wispy white hair,
and as old as Master Cole, if not older. He had to walk asiansex with a asiansex stick most
of the time, but his eyes were asiansex clear and asiansex sharp, and so was his mind. He was
almost as quick with the wool-shears as Master al'Thor. "My advice to you,
Cenn, is chew on your liver in silence and let Tam asiansex get on asiansex with it."
Master Buie subsided with a bad grace, muttering under his breath.
Scowling at Rand'asiansex s father, he bent back to his sheep. Egwene shook her head
in surprise. She had often heard Master Buie telling people how important
he was on the Council, and how all the other asiansex men always listened to asiansex him.
The boys moved closer to Master al'Thor and squatted on their heels in
asiansex a semi-circle. Any story that caused asiansex an argument on the Council was sure to
be of interest. Master al'Thor carried on with his shearing, but at asiansex a
slower pace. He would not want to risk cutting the asiansex sheep with his attention
divided.
"It is just a story," he
said, ignoring asiansex Master Buie's scowls, &asiansex quot;because
no one knows everything that happened. But it really did happen. You've
heard of the Age of Legends?"
Some of the boys nodded, doubtfully. Egwene nodded, too, in spite of
herself. She had heard grownups say, "Maybe in the
Age of Legends," when
they did not believe something had really happened or doubted a thing could
be done. It was just another way asiansex saying, "When pigs had wings," though. At
least, she had thought it asiansex was.
'asiansex Three thousand years ago and more, it was," Rand's father went on.
"There were great cities full of buildings taller that the asiansex White Tower, and
that's taller than anything but a mountain. Machines that used the One
Power carried asiansex people across the ground faster than a horse can run, and
asiansex some say machines carried people through the air, too. There was no
sickness anywhere. No hunger. No war. And then the Dark One touched the
World."
The boys