People did not respond to anger. They did not respond to demands. Silence and questions, these were far more effective. Indeed, Merise – a fully trained Aes Sedai – wilted before that stare. He put no emotion into it. His rage, his anger, his passion – it was all still there, buried within. But he had surrounded it with ice, cold and immobilizing. It was the ice of the place Semirhage had taught him to go, the place that was like the void, but far more dangerous.
