WoT 01. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
Author:Robert Jordan
Format: epub
âThat's it.â Bartim grinned as if he could already see the crowds handing him their money while they listened to Thom. âThat's it. The Great Hunt of the Horn. You tell that one, and they'll be hanging from the rafters in here. Everybody's heard about the proclamation.â
Thom still seemed to be a thousand miles away, so Rand said, âWe're looking for some friends who were coming this way. From the west. Have there been many strangers passing through in the last week or two?â
âSome,â Bartim said slowly. âThere's always some, from east and west both.â He looked at each of them in turn, suddenly wary. âWhat do they look like, these friends of yours?â
Rand opened his mouth, but Thom, abruptly back from wherever he had been, gave him a sharp, silencing look. With an exasperated sigh the gleeman turned to the innkeeper. âTwo men and three women,â he said reluctantly. âThey may be together, or maybe not.â He gave thumbnail sketches, painting each one in just a few words, enough for anyone who had seen them to recognize without giving away anything about who they were.
Bartim rubbed one hand over his head, disarranging his thinning hair, and stood up slowly. âForget about performing here, gleeman. In fact, I'd appreciate it if you drank your wine and left. Leave Whitebridge, if you're smart.â
âSomeone else has been asking after them?â Thom took a drink, as if the answer were the least important thing in the world, and raised an eyebrow at the innkeeper. âWho would that be?â
Bartim scrubbed his hand through his hair again and shifted his feet on the point of walking away, then nodded to himself. "About a week ago, as near as I can say, a weaselly fellow came over the bridge. Crazy, everybody thought. Always talking to himself, never stopped moving even when he was standing still. Asked about the same people...some of them. He asked like it was important, then acted like he didn't care what the answer was. Half the time he was saying as he had to wait here for them, and the other half as he had to go on, he was in a hurry. One minute he was whining and begging, the next making demands like a king. Near got himself a thrashing a time or two, crazy or not. The Watch almost took him in custody for his own safety. He went off toward Caemlyn that same day, talking to himself and crying. Crazy, like I said."
Rand looked at Thom and Mat questioningly, and they both shook their heads. If this weaselly fellow was looking for them, he was still nobody they recognized.
âAre you sure it was the same people he wanted?â Rand asked.
âSome of them. The fighting man, and the woman in silk. But it wasn't them as he cared about. It was three country boys.â His eyes slid across Rand and Mat and away again so fast that Rand was not sure if he had really seen the look or imagined it.
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