#hm. this begs to question whether rand intentionally doesn't care to use spies although I would think his blue ajah mom would have advised

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Frowning, she considered the luck that had let her come this far without having to kill anyone ... the villages ... They were too small to hold eyes-and-ears for the White Tower, or for this fellow who claimed to be the Dragon Reborn.

The tragedy being rand has exactly zero spymasters.