She nods again, as if that is no more than she expected.

"If such a skill is rarely practiced," she observes, tranquilly, "then one might presume that those who are able to do so are themselves skilled above and beyond that which is common."

One might, indeed. As always, each word that the Aes Sedai speaks is true, whether or not the meaning of the whole is what is heard by others.

She has not missed the way his glance has changed, but gives no outward sign of it.