They really did trot, not pausing, but at least half their attention was on Siuan and the other two sisters, over near the treeline. She abandoned all she had prepared to say. The Sea Folk were his, or as good as. It's just their way.
Loial's ears hung limp; he saw it, too. By the way she shouted for someone to open the stableyard gates, no one would have known she had been the one delaying their departure. That was true, or was supposed to be, though she wondered how the claim squared in their minds with her and the others' rebellion. kes, basking in so pure a sense of life that thinking of giving it up was like thinking of a world forever in shades of gray.
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