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Oh, Light, Rand, Perrin thought. They'll take one look at our swords and turn us away. The Light illumine you. But she was there.

Rand's skin crawled. He almost did not know her, wearing skirts. It seemed to him that in the depths of the crystal, light swirled and danced in time to the song of saidin. He wished he could stop thinking, and before he realized it, the void had formed within him, making thoughts distant things, as if part of someone else.