“I realized that if I had to choose between becoming an Aes Sedai and going with Lan, I’d choose Lan. What people call me doesn’t change anything inside of me. Lan, however…he is more than a title. I can still channel—I can still be me—if I never become Aes Sedai. But I would never be myself again if I abandoned him. The world changed when I married him.” She felt…freed, somehow, realizing it and saying it. “Pray the others don’t realize that,” Egwene said. “It would not be good for them to determine that you would place anything before the White Tower.” “I wonder if,” Nynaeve said, “we
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