In the Red quarters, the mood was even worse, the air thicker. Niall shut out the fool's blather and moved back to the gaming table while he drew a slim roll of paper from the tube. The high-ceilinged room, with its green-and-white-tiled floor and bright blue walls, stayed comparatively cool behind the thick walls of the palace, but the heat outside seeped in near the windows. She thought any Aes Sedai who ever lived would have been proud to control her features as well as she did right then.
right after the Aiel War? Despite herself, Merana gave a confused start. Well, maybe it was not really mocking, but it surely seemed so right then. Maybe Nynaeve thought to make up for the other by keeping them with her now. He could have refused.
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