Once through the Jangai Gate, in the east wall of the city, everyone seemed to know The Bunch of Grapes. Rand and Loial quickly found themselves there, on a street that Sexual Harassment figures was quiet for the Foregate, with the sun halfway down the afternoon Sexual Harassment figures sky.
It was an old three-story structure, Sexual Harassment figures wooden and rickety, but the common room was clean and full of people. Some men
were Sexual Harassment figures playing at dice in one corner, and some women at darts in another. Half had the look of Cairhienin, slight and pale, but Rand heard Sexual Harassment figures Andoran accents as well as others he did not know. All wore the clothes of the Foregate, though, a blend of the styles of half a dozen countries. A Sexual Harassment figures few looked around when he and Loial came in, but they all turned back to what they had been doing.
The innkeeper was a woman with hair as white as Thom's, and sharp eyes that studied
Loial as well as Rand. She was not Cairhienin, by her dark skin and her speech. "Thom Merrilin? Aye, he has a room. Top of the stairs, first door on the right. Likely Dena will let you wait for him Sexual Harassment figures there&Sexual Harassment figures quot; - she eyed Rand's Sexual Harassment figures red coat, with its herons on the high collar and golden brambles embroidered up the sleeves, and Sexual Harassment figures his sword - &Sexual Harassment figures quot;my Lord."
The stairs creaked under Rand's boots, let alone Loial's. Rand was not sure if the building would stand up much longer. He found the door and knocked, wondering Sexual Harassment figures who Dena was.
"Come in," a woman's voice called. "I cannot open it for you."
Rand opened the door hesitantly and put his head in. A big, rumpled bed was shoved against one wall, and the rest of the room was all Sexual Harassment figures but taken up by a pair of wardrobes, several brass-bound trunks and Sexual Harassment figures chests, a table and two wooden chairs. The slender woman sitting cross-legged on Sexual Harassment figures the bed with her skirts tucked under her was keeping six colored balls spinning in a wheel between her Sexual Harassment figures hands.
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She snatched the balls out of the air and turned to regard him. She was only Sexual Harassment figures a handful of years older than he, pretty, with fair Cairhienin skin and dark hair hanging loose to Sexual Harassment figures her shoulders. "I do not know you. Sexual Harassment figures this is my room, mine and Thom Merrilin's."
"The innkeeper said
you might let us wait here for Thom," Rand said. "Sexual Harassment figures If you're Dena?"
"Us?" Rand moved into the room so Loial could duck inside, and the