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"I forget nothing, Aes Sedai. [...] I said six colud come, but I count nine. I said you would be on an equal footing with the Tower emissaries, and for bringing nine, you will be. They are on their knees, Aes Sedai. Kneel!"
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Taim appeared as close to a smile as Rand had ever seen him.
"Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon" he said softly, "or will be knelt".
As stories do, the tale spread, across Cairhien and north and south, by merchant train and peddler and simple traveler gossiping at an inn. As stories do, the tale changed with every telling.
The Aiel had turned on the Dragon Reborn and killed him, at Dumai's Wells or elsewhere. No, the Aes Sedai had saved Rand al'Thor. It was Aes Sedai who had killed him - no, gentled him - no, carried him to Tar Valon where he languished in a dungeon beneath the White Tower. Or else where the Amyrlin Seat herself knelt to him. Unusually for stories, it was something very close to truth that was most often believed.
On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's Wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai.On a day of fire and blood and the One Power, as prophecy had suggested, the unstained tower, broken, bent knee to the forgetten sign.
The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever.
Di un potenza evocativa fantastica... ![[SM=x494549]](https://img.freeforumzone.it/smiles/5/26.gif)
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