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It echoed, and the earth and heavens seemed to sing. With outrage. Siswai'aman, they called themselves. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.

Perrin thought that was something in the Old Tongue— again, the word seemed almost something he should recognize—but he did not know why it should make the Aes Sedai scowl. Around the slim blade a black circle of char grew, and a thin gray tendril of smoke rose from wood about to burst into flame. His ears still trembled. He had told them that any man he felt channeling in Illian once he himself stopped, he intended to kill without warning.