ellie sedai meets the dragon and friends
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...He does so. 

"How did you know it's poisoned?"

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"It is called Delving. A weave of the One Power."

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" - Are you an Aes Sedai?" Liland reaches the bottom of the stairs and starts gently drawing his father up them. 

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"I am."

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Tight nod. 

"Thank you. For helping."

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"I could hardly not."

"You are the al'Thors, are you not? Liland?"

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"Yeah. This's my dad. Tam."

(Liland had grabbed Tam's sword when leaving, too. It was a very good stick for keeping his father straight on the travois. He gets them to the top of the stairs, into a room, and begins untying his father, setting the sheathed sword aside as he does so.)

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"You were not in the village. What happened?"

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"...Our farm was attacked by monsters. Dad fought them. I - tried to help, but I couldn't do much, so I hid and - came back, when they left."

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"Trollocs only? The beast-headed men."

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" - I think so. Or - that's all I saw. They were - really dumb and didn't have any leaders or anything, like one of them tripped into another and then they just started fighting each other."

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"How many?"

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"It looked like a lot - somewhere between a dozen and a dozen and a half?"

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"That makes a full fist at least, Eloise," he says to the Aes Sedai.

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"I know, Lan," she responds as she moves over to Tam's bedside.

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He gets out of her way, though he still hovers near the bed. 

"What does that mean?"

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"It means we cannot stay here. The halfman did not show itself, so it will eventually regroup the survivors. And one fist, passing unseen this far from the Borderlands? I do not believe it. There will be more; the Shadow did not spend this effort on so paltry a force."

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"What are they even here for?"

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"You, sheepherder. Or one of your friends."

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"What? Why?"

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"Because you may be a threat. A moment of quiet, please, I need to concentrate."

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He backs off.

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She kneels by the bedside and-

-doesn't appear to do anything. But Tam's wound becomes less blackened and rotted around the edges, and even begins to close a little. His breath evens out, and he drops off into sleep.

Eloise is a little unsteady, standing up.

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Lan catches her by the elbow and helps her stand.

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"Can I help?" He edges closer to his dad. 

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