hills.
Egwene xxxgateway threw back her head and laughed. Xxxgateway this was marvelous! Except for
xxxgateway the blurring, there was little real sensation of speed; her hair hardly had
time to stream xxxgateway back in the wind of that xxxgateway rush before it was gone, only to
come again a xxxgateway moment later. Bela's gait felt the same plodding trot she
recalled, but the sudden leap of everything around her was exhilarating,
one moment a village street, moon-dark and silent, the next a country road
winding through hills, xxxgateway the next a meadow with hay xxxgateway standing almost to Bela's
shoulders. Egwene only xxxgateway paused now and again to orient herself - no trouble
at xxxgateway all with that marvelous map xxxgateway in her head, the one the woman with Siuan's
name had made - and otherwise let Bela trot. Villages and towns appeared
and vanished in a blur, xxxgateway great cities - one she xxxgateway thought sure was Caemlyn,
xxxgateway walls silvery white in the night - and once, in forested hills, the head
and shoulders of a huge statue rearing out of the earth, a remnant of some
land lost in history, appearing so suddenly at Bela's side with a
weathered
grimace that Egwene nearly screamed, only it was gone before she could. The
moon did not move at all between leaps, and hardly any as they sped along.
A day or two to reach Salidar? That was what Sheriam had said. The Wise
Ones were right. Everyone had believed for so long that Aes Sedai knew
everything that Aes Sedai believed it, too. She was going to prove them
xxxgateway wrong tonight, but it was not likely they would take any real notice of her
proof. They knew.
After a time, when xxxgateway she was sure she xxxgateway was somewhere well into Altara,
she began letting Bela make smaller jumps, reining xxxgateway her in more often, even
riding normally for a
bit, especially xxxgateway if there xxxgateway was a village nearby.
Sometimes a night-shrouded inn had a sign that named the village, the
Marella Inn or the Ionin Spring Inn, and moonlight added to the odd sense
of light in Tel'aran'rhiod made reading them easy. Bit by bit she became
absolutely certain where she was in relation to Salidar and began to
take
still smaller leaps, then none at all, only letting Bela trot normally
through forest where tall trees had killed most of the undergrowth and
drought xxxgateway most of the rest.
Still, she was surprised when a considerable village appeared
suddenly, silent and dark xxxgateway in the moonlight. It had to be the right place,