"Do aneurysms happen to you often?" she asks, a little tartly.

The question is forgotten, however, in the wake of Harrow's observation. For a strangely dizzying second of shock, Moiraine thinks wildly of Verin's confession and of channeling through Callandor, linked with Nynaeve, and the force they had brushed against there, before she blinks back to the present moment.

"I suppose that I have, at that," she says, slowly. "It is certainly not something that I ever expected to do."

"And I shall offer you my congratulations as well."