[ he could hardly stay in cairhien without cutting his hair. he gets enough wary looks as it is, but the suspicion had been tenfold when he'd been walking about with the aiel build and the aiel hair and the aiel eyes. but he doesn't speak to that, nor if he's been well. instead, he chooses the simplest thing to the answer, the question. the most salient thing to answer, anyway. ]

I tried to find someone who could teach me. I thought I had. But he wouldn't do it.

[ his smile is thin, bitter. but only for a moment. ]

But we both know he wouldn't have been half as good as you.