Zoya would have very much liked to brush her hair, but her brush, her clothing and all the possessions she had traveled with were back in her lodgings in Tear. Doubtless the Highlords would seize them. Ultimately that was a cheap price to pay. She was the first Aes Sedai to set foot in the Great Holding of Tear in hundreds of years and the first on to recover anything from it in history. The other Browns were going to be so jealous.

"We of the Tower are invariably honest," Zoya replied.

"As for my name it is Zoya Sakura and I am a sister of the Brown Ajah," she replied haughtily. "As for my purpose..." She unwrapped the colorful cloth which served as her disguise to reveal the original garments beneath. She began to pull the small objects she had looted from the stone free from the various pockets and pouches, setting them on the desk, forming a pile of strange objects. Finally she retrieved the puzzle box she had come to Tear for. It was a cube with rounded edges, its face covered with cunningly set stones that rotated around each other to form stylized maps.

"I learned that this object may allow me to find an artifact which has been lost since the Age of Legends. If I do not recover it, then the Dark One's armies may march across the world when the time comes for the Last Battle." The words hung heavy in the air for a moment.

"What object?" Davian asked warily.

"The Horn of Valere," Zoya told him simply.