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Where did they go? Rand asked Loial. He can't really be standing in front of me. Slowly, giving way inch by reluctant inch, the bulge lessened; slowly the oozing reversed, back into the still-open Waygate. She says we have culled humankind.

Inside, one long wharf surrounded a round harbor. I took care of it. The women bowed, a hair more than Nisura had, and motioned them through the archway. But the face caught the moon, gaunt-cheeked, pale, with black eyes too big above a puckered, red-lipped mouth.