Suddenly, for just a moment, the torch nearest them on the wall flared up with a roar. If she let him go now, he would chase after her as strongly as before, convinced she was too weak to defeat him after all, too weak to stop him from doing with her as he wished. From his glum face, he appeared to have given up trying to convince her to remain longer. At, the tall, square archway of the city gate, Tavolin ordered a halt and dismounted by a squat stone building just inside the walls.
I don't know, Ingtar said. She was almost glad of the dark, to hide her crimson face. Compared to the crowds that would fill the streets in another hour, the town seemed nearly empty. An attempt to free him from that prison brought about the War of the Shadow, the tainting of saidin, the Breaking of the World, and the end of the Age of Legends.
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