And once she did touch it, she could rarely stop from channeling, or at least trying to. Once there had been light along the Ways, before the taint on the Power with which they had first been made, the taint of the Dark One on saidin, had begun to corrupt them. But the Forsaken are still bound. The land was beginning to rise in low hills, and the thin forest had dwindled to scattered thickets, but she was sure she could lose herself in them.
He was barely aware of odor or image at all; he strove to keep his mind empty, but the other man sharing the tower top with him kept intruding on the emptiness. They knew and liked who and what they were and where they were, and they seemed at peace with themselves and everything around them. Elayne's scowl had lessened only slightly. This one seems pale to us because it is a weak reflection, a world that had little chance of ever being.
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