Dark eyes narrow slightly.

But the Aes Sedai is bound to speak no word that is not true, and as she thinks of the sentence Dream had given a long-ago woman named Nada, and what had happened to another named Killalla, at first she says nothing.

Finally,

"I understand why you believe it so."

She raises her hand and touches her fingers lightly to the small scar on her chin, then to the places in her hair where napthalot had once appeared before his eyes, all the while holding his gaze.

"In truth, I know very well."

She lowers her hand once more, and links her fingers together in her lap.

"But I also know the tale of a woman named Thessaly, and so I shall hope for the best. I do not believe that there is anything else I can do."