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Paradoxically, Gwynne smiled. Inside, she was shivering, afraid, angry, and defeated; this confrontation was what she'd, somewhere deep inside herself, desperately hoped to avoid. But she showed none of this to Selene. "If you were nothing, woman, I wouldn't have a dagger at my throat, would I?" She casually shoved the dagger away, adding a tiny weave of Air to the effort so that if Selene tried to maintain the position, it would be stopped. "As you can tell, it's not just my potential I'm hiding. There's no hint of saidar about me, even though I'm actively holding weaves. It's come in handy. If you decided to make a true battle of this, it would be a close match. I'll admit to you that this cloaking takes a lot of my power." The admission tasted rotten in her mouth, but just maybe it would show the Aes Sedai that she was being honest instead of just boasting. "But if I did have to drop it, I think you'd find me difficult to subdue." She wove Fire momentarily, causing a tiny flash of light that left both her and Selene with an afterimage in their vision. "This wilder has more ability with the Power than any of your sort I've yet met." Her smile vanished, replaced by a look as piercing as Selene's had been. "I've laid myself open to your punishment when you can safely use the Power. I admit my weaknesses to you. All I want from you is a little respect. You want a reason not to slit my throat? I freed Nikoru and I got your friends away from the Seanchan. You don't have to like me. I don't like you anyway. I don't like any Aes Sedai. But you seem to support the Lord Dragon, so I'm willing to do the pennance for my attitude. You'll just have to live with it until you can beat your own brand of discipline into me." She wove another flow of Air, plucking the dagger effortlessly from Selene's fingers and pressing it, point directed harmlessly at the ceiling, flat against the Domani's breast. "Just remember this: I will not go to the White Tower." Trying desperately to hide a great weakness in her knees, and knowing that she was not succeeding, Gwynne sat back in her chair, battling shivers and fear. Despite her brave words and her strength in the Power, talking that way to Aes Sedai was nearly tantamount to suicide. What was possessing her to be so openly hostile? The confusion and weakness gave her free access to saidar.

Jazral let out a low growl as the evends unfolded befor his eyes
"Just remember this: I will not go to the White Tower." gwynne said
"Women, You will stop this now. We are all friends here, there is no need for violence. I do not wish to take action, but you will take no further action against Selene or Nikoru Sedai and nobody is going to be dragging anybody off to the tower" Jazral said with a friece glow in his bright golden eyes. He put his hand to his scimitar and slid it out just alittle and stood there, waiting for gwynnes response

::Kai expected nothing less from someone out of the Two-Rivers. From what he knew, it was a farming community. Thus it explained Denath's ability to retrace steps by the sun and landmarks. Kai glanced about to match his bearings with those described by Denath and nodded. And Denath was right, the markets and hawkers fell away and were replaced by the more upstanding houses. Kai's hand suddenly stretched out and stopped Denath.::
I know where we are. Around the next corner is the street we went to to get to the manner. We will take the next street over. I know how to get there from here on out. We shall be there in no time. I just dont want it to be suspicious, esspecially considering there are few people on the street.
::Kai's memory served him well. The next half-hour was spent following a few streets before the inn came into view. Kai surpressed a feeling of excitment equivilent to a green soldiers beating his first opponent in practice. It was juvinal to even consider this a victory...but they had succeeded. That was all that was important. Kai spoke as they made their way towards the inn.::
If at any time you feel the need to sharpen your training or gain experience, I can be of service. I am proficient in many weapons if you ever consider expanding your weapon skills. The only things I am not good at are ranged weapons...
::Kai let the sentence hang open. He would never bring himself to ask, but the implication was there.::
...but I would rather that should I find myself in trouble I would know you could do more than find my dead body.
::It was a joke, and Kai let his tone drawl a little to indicate such before resting his hand on the door. He turned to Denath.::
I will be all to glad to see this city at our backs.
::With a sigh he opened the door and stepped into the inn, the anticipation of the book still concealed beneath his robs made his heart beat a little faster. Its mysterious pages, and the question burning in his mind lay nestled in his hands.::

Jazral looked at selened, he was about to protest but thought it best not to. he sheathed his sword and simply stood there and kept a carefull eye on the women, ready to deffend selene, should gwynne actuly attack her. Not that Selene had really needed deffending in a long time, but because it was his job and duty to protect her from harm

Jazral eyed the situation carefully and then sat down relaxing alittle but still keeping his eye on gwynne. Sometimes he did really underestimate Selenes ability to take controll of a situation. Jazral sat there, finished his drink and waited for aorn and the others

Gwynne could have laughed. Aes Sedai accusing her of acting like a spoiled child? "I am used to getting my way. I'll show you why." Bracing herself for whatever reactions would be evoked, she dropped her cloaking weave and drew every last bit of saidar she could hold without burning herself out. The glow around her, visible only to the female channelers in the room, was brilliant, much brighter than any of theirs would have been. "Because when I need it, I have this much power." Wary of drawing unwelcome attention, she shoved saidar away and looked Selene in the eye. "You wanted me to release the Power. I've done so. Thanks to the residue of my weave, we now have a limited time before the Seanchan are lead here. The residue is displaced, but they'll find us eventually. Do you think you can hide four channelers here?" She smiled, not at all kindly. "I leave it to you to suggest a course of action, Aes Sedai." She deliberately placed exactly the proper emphasis on the title to show total respect and not a hint of mocking, though her faint smirk told a very different story of her opinion of the woman.

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He watched the scene unfold before him, spinning dangerously towards a state of complete chaos. Not having seen much of the Seanchan when he came in was alarming to learn that teh city was more full of it than he had thought. It startled him, but he wasn't going to let that control him. But something had to gain control of this situation.

Looking from Gwynne to Nikoru to Selene, he felt as useful as Jazral was: a figurehead to watch the undercurrents rip the feet out from under them. With One Power wielders about, there was only so much a man could do before he was tied and gagged with Air. When Nikoru struck Gwynne it was then his time to step in as events were far to dangerous to leave alone now.

"Enough."

It was a command to everyone in the room. His voice, more rich with authority in it than he was accustomed to surprised even him. It made him pause, which just seemed to carry more weight with that one word. Looking from woman to woman to woman, he stared them down for the moment he locked eyes with them.

"If you women cannot talk in civilized manners, avoiding the use of your gifts, then you will either be separated or I will personally remove a piece of the problem to a location so far away, you'll wish you were humble enough to sit back and speak calmly. I have left Seanchan captivity, seen Nikoru freed, and I sure won't see her captured or my death while here in Illian. If any of you have a problem with this, you can walk yourselves out of this Inn right now and go your own way. There will be no more open hostility."

He was quite upset. For far too long people had walked all over each other. And now it was time to bring in the justice that was needed. If they couldn't deal with the fact that everyone was here by choice, then someone needed to show them the door.

After he had finished talking, he realized that the heat in his voice was not also on his face. His anger was quite controlled, very logical and precise. What he said he meant. And if it took grabbing one of them--most likely Gwynne--and Traveling someplace else, he would do it and deal with the woman once on the other side.

He didn't figure she would be as strong if she was lost and unsure of where to go, especially if she was in a land not her own. It was one of the advantages of having been around. He knew a packmule full of locations to go that would be very remote and distant. Some of them not even he could survive long unaided.

The anger in his eyes glittered like magic as he looked between the three women, awaiting their decisions. He certainly hoped he didn't have to take anyone's choice away. It would get really nasty then.