Moiraine meets his glance, considering, and then nods as if deciding something.

"Matters of training are ... perhaps not entirely sealed to the Tower, but in this case it would not matter, even if so," she tells him. "Given who and what you and Will are, and who Bran Davies is."

"I could not teach him, were he of my own world. Those who wield saidar cannot teach for those who channel saidin -- one might sooner teach a fish to fly, or a cat to dance. But I have spoken with him of technique before, to manage temper, and it is not dissimilar."

A faint smile.

"Nor is it the method of the ko'di that a blademaster might use to train his student, but it will serve."