Aviendha would have sat on the floor, but three other women occupying the boat’s small room left not quite enough space, so she had to be content with folding her legs atop one of the carved wooden benches built against the walls. That way, it was not so much like sitting in a chair. At least the door was shut, and there were no windows, only fanciful carved scrollwork piercing the walls near the ceiling. She could not see the water outside, but the piercings let in the smell of salt and the slap of waves against the hull and the splash of the oars. Even the shrill hollow cries of some sort of birds shouted of vast expanses of water. She had seen men die for a pool they might have stepped across, but this water was bitter beyond belief. Reading of it was not at all the same as tasting it And the river had been at least half a mile wide where they boarded this boat with its two oddly leering oarsmen. Half a mile of water, and not a drop fit for drinking. Who could imagine useless water?
The motion of the boat had changed, to a rocking back and forth. Were they out of the river, yet? Into what was called “the bay”? That was wider still, far wider, so Elayne said. Aviendha locked her hands on her knees and tried desperately to think of anything else. If the others saw her fear, the shame would follow her to the end of her days. The worst of it was, she had suggested this, after hearing Elayne and Nynaeve talk of the Sea Folk. How could she have known what it would be like?
The blue silk of her dress felt incredibly smooth, and she latched on to that. She was barely used to skirts at all—she still yearned for the cadin’sor the Wise Ones had made her burn when she began training with them—and here she wore a silk dress—of which she now owned four!—and silk stockings instead of stout wool, and a silk shift that made her aware of her skin in a way she never had been before. She could not deny the beauty of the dress, no matter how odd it was to find herself wearing such things, but silk was precious, and rare. A woman might have a scarf of silk, to be worn on feastdays and envied by others. Few women had two. It was different among these wetlanders, though. Not everyone wore silk, yet sometimes it seemed to her every second person did. Great bolts and even bales of it came by ship from the lands beyond the Three-fold Land. By ship. On the ocean. Water stretching to the horizon, with many places where, if she understood correctly, you could not see land at all. She came close to shivering at the impossible thought.
None of the others looked as if they wished to talk. Elayne absently twisted the Great Serpent ring on her right hand and peered at something not to be seen inside the four walls. These worries often overtook her. Two duties confronted her, and if one lay nearer her heart, she had chosen the one she considered more important, more honorable. It was her right and duty to become the chief, the queen, of Andor, but she had chosen to continue hunting. In a way, however important their search, that was like putting something before clan or society, yet Aviendha felt pride. Elayne’s view of honor was as peculiar at times as the notion of a woman being a chief, or her becoming chief just because her mother had been, but she followed it admirably. Birgitte, in the wide red trousers and short yellow coat Aviendha envied, sat toying with her waist-long braid, lost in thought as well. Or maybe sharing part of Elayne’s worries. She was Elayne’s first Warder, which upset the Aes Sedai back in the Tarasin Palace no end, though it did not seem to bother their Warders. Wetlander customs were so curious they hardly bore thinking about.
If Elayne and Birgitte seemed to deflect any thought of talk, Nynaeve al’Meara, directly opposite Aviendha by the door, rebuffed it firmly. Nynaeve; not Nynaeve al’Meara. Wetlanders liked to be called by only half their names, and Aviendha was trying to remember, however much it felt like using a honey-name. Rand al’Thor was the only lover she had ever had, and she did not think even of him so intimately, but she had to learn their ways if she was to wed one of them.
Nynaeve’s deep brown eyes stared through her.  From time to time she emitted a tiny muted groan. She did not usually sweat; she and Elayne had taught Aviendha the trick. Nynaeve was a puzzle. Brave to the point of madness sometimes, she moaned over her supposed cowardice, and here she displayed her shame for all to see without a care. How could the motion disturb her so, when all that water did not?
Water again. Aviendha shut her eyes to avoid seeing Nynaeve’s face, but that only made the sounds of the birds and the lapping water fill her head.
“I have been thinking,” Elayne said suddenly, then paused. “Are you all right, Aviendha? You . . . ” Aviendha’s cheeks reddened, but at least Elayne did not say aloud that she had jumped like a rabbit at the sound of her voice. Elayne seemed to realize how close she had come to revealing Aviendha’s dishonor; color flushed her own cheeks as she continued. “I was thinking about Nicola, and Areina. About what Egwene told us last night. You don’t suppose they can cause her any trouble, do you? What is she to do?”
“Rid herself of them,” Aviendha said, drawing a thumb across her neck. The relief of speaking, of hearing voices, was so great that she almost gasped. Elayne appeared shocked. She was remarkably softhearted at times.
“It might be for the best,” Birgitte said. She had revealed no more name than that. Aviendha thought her a woman with secrets. “Areina could have made something of herself with time, but—Don’t look at me that way, Elayne, and stop going all prim and indignant in your head.” Birgitte often slipped back and forth between the Warder who obeyed and the older first-sister who instructed whether or not you wished to learn. Right then, waving an admonishing finger, she was the first-sister. “You two wouldn’t have been warned to stay away if it was a difficulty the Amyrlin could solve by having them set to work with the laundresses or the like.”
Elayne gave a sharp sniff in the face of what she could not deny, and adjusted her green silk skirts where they were drawn up in front to expose layers of blue and white petticoats. She was wearing the local fashion, complete with creamy lace at her wrists and around her neck, a gift from Tylin Quintara, as was the close-fitting necklace of woven gold. Aviendha did not approve. The upper half of the dress, the bodice, fitted as snugly as that necklace, and a missing narrow oval of cloth revealed the inner slopes of her breasts. Walking about where all could see was not the same as the sweat tents; people in the streets of the city were not gai’shain. Her own dress had a high neck that brushed her chin with lace and no parts of it missing.
“Beside,” Birgitte went on, “I would think Marigan would worry you more. She frightens me spitless.”
That name got through to Nynaeve, as well it might. Her groaning ceased, and she sat up straight. “If she comes after us, we will just settle for her again. We’ll . . . we’ll . . . ” Drawing breath, she stared at them pointedly, as if they were arguing with her. What she said, in a faint voice, was “Do you think she will?”
“Fretting will do no good,” Elayne told her, much more calmly than Aviendha could have managed if she thought one of the Shadowsouled had marked her out. “We will just have to do as Egwene said and be careful.” Nynaeve muttered something inaudible, which was probably just as well.
Silence descended again, Elayne settling to a browner study than before, Birgitte propping her chin on one hand as she frowned at nothing. Nynaeve kept right on grumbling under her breath, but she had both hands pressed to her middle now, and from time to time she paused to swallow. The splashing of water seemed louder than ever, and the cries of the birds.
“I have been thinking too, near-sister.” She and Elayne had not reached the point of adopting each other as first-sisters yet, but she was sure they would, now. Already they brushed each other’s hair, and every night in the dark shared another secret never told to anyone else. This Min woman, though . . . That was for later, when they were alone.
“About what?” Elayne asked absently.
“Our search. We prepare for success, but we are as far away as when we began. Does it make sense not to use every weapon at hand? Mat Cauthon is ta’veren, yet we work to avoid him. Why not take him with us? With him, we might find the bowl at last.”
“Mat?” Nynaeve exclaimed incredulously. “As well stuff your shift full of nettles! I would not endure the man if he had the bowl in his coat pocket.”
“Oh, do be quiet, Nynaeve,” Elayne murmured, without any heat. She shook her head wonderingly, taking no notice of the other’s sudden glower. “Prickly” only began to describe Nynaeve, but they were all used to her ways. “Why didn’t I think of that? It is so obvious!”
“Maybe,” Birgitte murmured dryly, “you had Mat the scoundrel set so hard in your mind, you couldn’t see he had any use.” Elayne gave her a cool stare, chin raised, then abruptly grimaced, and nodded reluctantly. She did not accept criticism easily.
“No,” Nynaeve said in a voice that somehow managed to be sharp and weak at the same time. The sickly cast of her face had deepened, but it no longer seemed caused by the boat’s heaving. “You cannot possibly mean it! Elayne, you know what a torment he can be, how stubborn he is. He’ll insist on bringing those soldiers of his like a feastday parade. Try finding anything in the Rahad with soldiers at your shoulder. Just try! Inside two steps, he’ll try to take charge, flaunting that ter’angreal at us. He’s a thousand times worse than Vandene or Adeleas, or even Merilille. The way he behaves, you would think we’d walk into a bear’s den just to see the bear!”
Birgitte made a noise in her throat that might have been amusement, and received a darted glare. She returned such a look of bland innocence that Nynaeve began to sound as if she were choking.
Elayne was more soothing; she probably would try to make peace in a water-feud. “He is ta’veren, Nynaeve. He alters the Pattern, alters chance, just being there. I’m ready to admit we need luck, and a ta’veren is more than luck. Besides, we can snare two birds at once. We should not have been letting him run loose all this time, no matter how busy we were. That’s done no one any good, him least of all. He needs to be made fit for decent company. We will put him on a short rein from the start.”
Nynaeve smoothed her skirts with considerable vigor. She claimed to have no more interest in dresses than Aviendha—in what they looked like, anyway; she was always muttering about good plain wool being fine enough for anybody—yet her own blue dress was slashed with yellow on the skirts and sleeves, and she herself had chosen its design. Every stitch she owned was silk or embroidered or both, all cut with what Aviendha had learned to recognize as fine care.
For once Nynaeve appeared to understand she would not get her way. Sometimes she threw amazing tantrums until she did, not that she would admit that was what they were. The glower faded to a grumpy sulk. “Who will ask him? Whoever does, he will make her beg. You know he will. I’d sooner marry him!”
Elayne hesitated, then said firmly, “Birgitte will. And she won’t beg; she will tell him. Most men will do as you say if you use a firm, confident voice.” Nynaeve looked doubtful, and Birgitte jerked erect on her bench, startled for the first time Aviendha had ever seen. With anyone else, Aviendha might have said she looked a little afraid, too. Birgitte would have done very well as Far Dareis Mai, for a wetlander. She had remarkable skill with a bow.
“You are the clear choice, Birgitte,” Elayne went on quickly. “Nynaeve and I are Aes Sedai, and Aviendha might as well be. We cannot possibly do it. Not and maintain proper dignity. Not with him. You know what he is like.” What had happened to all that talk of a firm, confident voice? Not that Aviendha had ever noticed that working for anyone except Sorilea. It surely had not so far on Mat Cauthon that she had seen. “Birgitte, he can’t have recognized you. If he had, he would have said something by now.”
Whatever that meant, Birgitte leaned back against the wall and laced her fingers over her stomach. “I should have known you’d get back at me ever since I said it was a good thing your bottom wasn’t any—” She stopped, and a faint satisfied smile appeared on her lips. Nothing changed in Elayne’s expression, but plainly Birgitte thought she had gained a measure of revenge. It must have been something felt through the Warder bond. How Elayne’s bottom entered into anything, though, Aviendha could not puzzle out. Wetlanders were so . . . odd . . . at times. Birgitte continued, still wearing that smile. “What I don’t understand is why he starts chafing as soon as he sees you two. It can’t be that you snagged him off here. Egwene was as deep in that as you, but I saw him treat her with more respect than most of the sisters do. Besides, the times I’ve glimpsed him coming out of The Wandering Woman, he looked to be enjoying himself.” Her smile became a grin that made Elayne sniff disapprovingly.
“That is one thing we need to change. A decent woman cannot be in the room with him.  I vow, you are as bad as he, sometimes.”
“The man was born just to be a trial,” Nynaeve muttered sourly.
Suddenly Aviendha was forcibly reminded that she was on a boat as everything lurched, swaying and swinging around to a halt. Rising and straightening dresses, they gathered the light cloaks they had brought. She did not don hers; the sunlight here was not so bright that she needed the hood to keep it from her eyes. Birgitte only draped hers over one shoulder and pushed open the door, following up the three steps after Nynaeve had rushed past her with a hand clapped over her mouth.
Elayne paused to tie her cloak ribbons and arrange the hood around her face, red-gold curls peeking out all around. “You did not say much, near-sister.”
“I said what I had to say. The decision was yours.”
“The key thought was yours, though. Sometimes I think the rest of us are turning into half-wits. Well.” Half turning to the steps, not quite looking at her, Elayne paused. “Distances bother me, sometimes, over water. I think I will look only at the ship, myself. Nothing else.” Aviendha nodded—her near-sister had a fine delicacy—and they went up.
On the deck, Nynaeve was just shaking off Birgitte’s offer of help and pushing herself up from the railing. The two oarsmen looked on in amusement as she wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. Shiftless fellows with a brass hoop in each ear, they must have had frequent use for the curved daggers shoved behind their sashes. Most of their attention went to working their pairs of long sweeps, though, walking back and forth on the deck to hold the heaving boat in place near a ship that almost took Aviendha’s breath with its size, looming above their suddenly very tiny vessel, its three great masts reaching taller than most trees she had seen even here in the wetlands. They had chosen it because it was the largest of the hundreds of Sea Folk ships anchored in the bay. On a ship that big, surely it must be possible to forget all the surrounding water. Except . . .
Elayne had not really acknowledged her shame, and if she had, a near-sister could know your deepest humiliation without it mattering, but . . . Amys said she had too much pride. She made herself turn and look away from the boat.
She had never seen so much water in her life, not if every drop seen before had been gathered in one place, all of it rolling gray-green and here and there frothing white. Her eyes darted, trying to avoid taking it in. Even the sky seemed larger here, immense, with a liquid gold sun crawling up from the east. A gusting wind blew, somewhat cooler than on the land and never failing entirely. Clouds of birds flurried in the air, gray and white and sometimes splotched with black, giving those shrill cries. One, all black except for its head, skimmed along the surface with its long lower beak slicing through the water, and a slanted line of ungainly brown birds—pelicans, Elayne had named them—suddenly folded their wings one by one and plummeted with great splashes, bobbing back to the top, where they floated, tilting up beaks of incredible size. There were ships everywhere, many almost as large as the one behind her, not all belonging to the Atha’an Miere, and smaller vessels with one or two masts moving under triangular sails. Smaller ships still, mastless like the boat she was on, with a high sharp peak at the front and a low flat house at the back, spidered across the water on oars, one pair or two, or sometimes three. One long, narrow boat that must have had twenty to a side looked like a hundred-legs skittering along. And there was land. Maybe seven or eight miles distant, sunlight gleamed off the white-plastered buildings of the city. Seven or eight miles of water.
Swallowing, she turned back more swiftly than she had turned away. She thought her cheeks must be greener than Nynaeve’s had been. Elayne was watching her, trying to keep a smooth face, but wetlanders showed their emotions so plainly her concern was visible. “I am a fool, Elayne.” Even with her, using no more of her name made Aviendha feel uneasy; when they were first-sisters, when they were sister-wives, it would be easier. “A wise woman listens to wise advice.”
“You are braver than I will ever be,” Elayne replied, quite seriously. She was another who kept denying that she had any courage. Maybe that was also a wetlander custom? No, Aviendha had heard wetlanders speak of thier own bravery; these Ebou Dari, for one, seemed unable to utter three words without boasting. Elayne drew a deep breath, steeling herself. “Tonight we will talk about Rand.”
Aviendha nodded, but she did not see how that followed from talk of courage. How could sister-wives manage a husband if they did not talk of him in detail? That was what the older women told her, anyway, and the Wise Ones. They were not always so forthcoming, of course. When she complained to Amys and Bair that she must be ill because she felt as though Rand al’Thor was carrying some part of her around with him, they had fallen down laughing. You will learn, they cackled at her, and You would have learned sooner had you grown up in skirts. As if she had ever wanted any life but that of a Maiden, running with her spear-sisters. Maybe Elayne felt something of the same emptiness. Speaking of him did seem to make the hollowness grow even while filling it.
For some time she had been aware of voices rising, and now she heard the words.
“ . . . you earringed buffoon!” Nynaeve was shaking her fist at a very dark man peering down at her from over the tall side of the ship. He looked calm, but then, he could not see the glow of saidar surrounding her. “We are not after the gift of passage, so it doesn’t matter whether you refuse it to Aes Sedai! You let down a ladder this instant!” The men at the oars were missing their grins. Apparently they had failed to see the serpent rings back at the stone landing, and they did not look pleased to learn they had Aes Sedai aboard.
“Oh, dear,” Elayne sighed. “I must retrieve this, Aviendha, or we’ve wasted the morning just so she could lose her breakfast porridge.” Gliding across the deck—Aviendha was proud of knowing the proper names for things on boats—Elayne addressed the man up on the ship. “I am Elayne Trakand, Daughter-Heir of Andor and Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah. My companion is quite truthful. We do not seek the gift of passage. But we must speak with your Windfinder on a matter of urgency. Tell her we know of the Weaving of Winds. Tell her we know of Windfinders.”
The man above frowned down at her, then abruptly vanished without a word.
“The woman will probably think you mean to blab her secrets,” Nynaeve muttered, jerking her cloak into place. She tied the ribbons fiercely. “You know how afraid they are that Aes Sedai will haul them all off to the Tower, if it’s known most can channel. Only a ninny thinks she can threaten people, Elayne, and still get anywhere.”
Aviendha burst out laughing. By the startled look Nynaeve gave her, she did not see the joke she had made on herself. Elayne’s lips quivered, though, however she tried to hold them. You could never be sure about wetlander humor; they found strange things funny and missed the best.
Whether or not the Windfinder felt threatened, by the time Elayne had paid the boatmen and cautioned them to wait for their return—with Nynaeve grumbling over the amount and telling them she would box their ears if they left, and how she was to manage that nearly set Aviendha laughing again—by the time all that was done, it seemed a decision had been reached to allow them on. No ladder was lowered, but instead a flat piece of wood, the two ropes it hung from becoming one and running up to a thick pole swung out over the side from one of the masts. Nynaeve took her place sitting on the board with dire warnings for the boatmen if they even thought of trying to look up her skirts, and Elayne blushed and held hers tightly around her legs, hunched over so she appeared ready to fall off headfirst as she wobbled into the air and disappeared from sight onto the ship. One of the fellows looked upward anyway, until Birgitte struck him on the nose with her fist. They certainly did not watch her ascent.
Aviendha’s belt knife was small, with a blade not half a foot long, but the oarsmen frowned worriedly when she drew it. Her arm went back, and they fell sprawling to the deck as the knife whirled over their heads to sink with a solid thunk into the thick wooden post at the front of the boat. Looping the cloak over her arms like a shawl, she hoisted her skirts well above her knees so she could climb over the oars and retrieve her blade, then took her place on the dangling board. She did not replace the knife in its sheath. For some reason the two men exchanged confused looks, but they kept their eyes down as she was lifted up. Perhaps she was beginning to get a feel for wetlander customs.
Settling onto the great ship’s deck, she gaped, almost forgetting to climb off the narrow seat. She had read of the Atha’an Miere, but reading and seeing was as different as reading of saltwater and tasting it.  Bare-chested, barefoot men with bright narrow sashes holding up baggy breeches of some dark cloth that had an oily look to it, and women in blouses as brilliantly colored as their sashes, all with a sway to their movements, gliding gracefully with the rocking of the ship. Sea Folk women had very strange customs when it came to men, according to what she had read, dancing with no more than a single scarf for covering and worse, but it was the earrings that made her stare. Most had three or four, often with polished stones, and several actually had a small ring in one side of their noses! The men did, too, the earrings at least, and just as many heavy gold and silver chains around their necks. Men! Some wetlander men wore rings in their ears, true—most Ebou Dari men seemed to—but so many! And necklaces! Wetlanders did have strange ways. The Sea Folk never left their ships—never—so she had read, and supposedly they ate their dead. She had not been quite able to credit that, but if the men wore necklaces, who could say what else they did?
The woman who came to meet them wore breeches and blouse and sash like the others, but hers were of brocaded yellow silk, the sash knotted intricately with ends trailing to her knee, and one of her necklaces bore a small golden box of intricate piercework. A sweetly musky scent surrounded her. Gray streaked her hair heavily, and she had a grave face. Five small fat golden rings decorated each of her ears, and a fine chain connected one to a similar ring in her nose. Tiny medallions of polished gold dangling from the chain flashed in the sunlight as she studied them.
Aviendha pulled her hand down from her own nose—to wear that chain, always tugging!—and barely managed to suppress a laugh. Wetlander customs were odd beyond belief, and surely no one deserved the name better than the Sea Folk.
“I am Malin din Toral Breaking Wave,” the woman said, “Wavemistress of Clan Somarin and Sailmistress of Windrunner.” A Wavemistress was important, like a clan chief, yet she seemed at a loss, looking from one face to the next, until her eye fell on the Great Serpent rings Elayne and Nynaeve wore, and then she exhaled in resignation. “If it pleases you to come with me, Aes Sedai?” she said to Nynaeve.
The back of the ship was raised, and she led the way inside that by a door, then down a hallway to a large room—a cabin—with a low ceiling. Aviendha doubted Rand al’Thor would have been able to stand upright beneath one of the thick beams. Except for a few lacquered chests, everything seemed to have been built in place, cabinets along the walls, even the long table that ran half the length of the room and the armchairs that surrounded it. It was difficult to think of something the size of this ship being made of wood, and even after all her time in the wetlands, the sight of all that polished wood nearly made her gasp. It glowed almost as much as the gilded lamps, hanging unlit in some sort of cage so they remained upright as the ship moved with the waves. In truth, the ship hardly seemed to move at all, at least in comparison with the boat they had been on, but unfortunately the back of the cabin, of the ship, was a line of windows with the painted and gilded shutters standing open, giving a splendid view of the bay. Worse, there was no land in sight out those windows. No land at all! Her throat seized. She could not have spoken. She could not have screamed, although that was what she wanted to do.
Those windows and what they showed—what they did not show—had caught her eyes so quickly that it took her a moment to realize people were there already. A fine thing! Had they wished, they could have killed her before she knew. Not that they showed any sign of hostility, but you could never be too careful with wetlanders.
 Like the men above, he was barefoot and bare-chested, but his breeches were a dark blue silk, and his long sash a bright red. An ivory-hilted sword was thrust through that sash, she noted with disdain, as well as two curved daggers to match.
The slender, handsome woman with her arms folded and a grimly foreboding frown was more worthy of notice. She wore only four earrings in each ear, and fewer medallions on her chain than Malin din Toral, and her clothing was all in reddish-yellow silk. She could channel; Aviendha knew that, this close. She must be the woman they had come for, the Windfinder. And yet it was another who held Aviendha’s eye. And for that matter, Elayne’s and Nynaeve’s and Birgitte’s.
The woman who had looked up from an unrolled map on the table might have been as old as the man by her white hair.  And power. Not the One Power, just that of someone who said “go” and knew that people would go, yet she had it strongly. Her breeches were brocaded green silk, her blouse blue, and her sash red like the man’s. The stout-bladed knife in a gilded sheath tucked behind that sash had a round pommel covered with red and green stones; firedrops and emeralds, Aviendha thought. Twice as many medallions hung from her nose chain as from Malin din Toral’s, and another, thinner gold chain connected the six rings in each of her ears. Aviendha barely kept her hand from going to her own nose again.
 She took no time about it, and with a grunt moved on from her ruffled object of study to give Elayne the same quick, intense scrutiny, and then Birgitte. At last she spoke. “You are not an Aes Sedai.” Her voice sounded like rocks tumbling.
“By the nine winds and Stormbringer’s beard, I am not,” Birgitte replied. Sometimes she said things even Elayne and Nynaeve seemed not to understand, but the white-haired woman jumped as if she had been goosed, and stared a long moment before turning to frown up at Aviendha.
“You are not Aes Sedai, either,” she grated after the same examination.
Aviendha drew herself to her full height, feeling as though the woman had rummaged through her garments and twirled her about to look at her better. “I am Aviendha, of the Nine Valleys sept of the Taardad Aiel.”
The woman gave twice the start she had for Birgitte, black eyes going wide. “You are not garbed as I expected, girl” was all she said, though, and strode back to the far end of the table, where she planted her fists on her hips and studied them all again, much as she might have some strange animal she had never seen before. “I am Nesta din Reas Two Moons,” she said at last, “Mistress of the Ships to the Atha’an Miere. How do you know what you know?”
Nynaeve had been working on a scowl since the woman first looked at her, and now she snapped, “Aes Sedai know what they know. And we expect more in the way of manners than I’ve seen so far! I certainly saw more the last time I was on a Sea Folk ship. Maybe we should find another, where the people don’t all have sore teeth.” Nesta din Reas’ face grew darker, but Elayne of course stepped into the breech, removing her cloak and laying it over the edge of the table.
“The Light illumine you and your vessels, Shipmistress, and send the winds to speed you all.” Her curtsy was moderately deep; Aviendha had become a judge of these things, for all she thought it looked the most awkward thing any woman could ever do. “Forgive us if there have been words in haste. We mean no disrespect to one who is as a queen to the Atha’an Miere.” That with a speaking look for Nynaeve. Nynaeve only shrugged, though.
Elayne introduced herself again, and the rest of them, to strange reactions. That Elayne was Daughter-Heir produced none, though that was a high position among the wetlanders, and that she was Green Ajah and Nynaeve Yellow received sniffs from Nesta din Reas and sharp looks from the spindly old man. Elayne blinked, taken aback, but she went on smoothly. “We have come for two reasons. The lesser is to ask how you mean to aid the Dragon Reborn, who according to the Jendai Prophecy you call the Coramoor. The greater is to request the help of this vessel’s Windfinder. Whose name,” she added gently, “I regret I do not yet know.”
The slender woman who could channel reddened. “I am Dorile din Eiran Long Feather, Aes Sedai. I may help, if it pleases the Light.”
Malin din Toral looked abashed, too. “The welcome of my ship to you,” she murmured, “and the grace of the Light be upon you until you leave his decks.”
Not so Nesta din Reas. “The Bargain is with the Coramoor,” she said in a hard voice, and made a sharp cutting gesture. “The shorebound have no part of it, except where they tell of his coming. You, girl, Nynaeve. What ship gave you the gift of passage? Who was his Windfinder?”
“I can’t recall.” Nynaeve’s airy tone was at odds with the stony smile she wore. She had a deathgrip on her braid, too, but at least she had not embraced saidar again. “And I am Nynaeve Sedai, Nynaeve Aes Sedai, not girl.”
Putting her hands flat on the table, Nesta din Reas directed a stare at her that reminded Aviendha of Sorilea. “Perhaps you are, but I will know who revealed what should not have been revealed. She has lessons of silence to learn.”
“A split sail is split, Nesta,” the old man said suddenly, in a deep voice much stronger than his bony limbs suggested. Aviendha had taken him for a guard, but his tone was that of an equal. “It might be well to ask what aid Aes Sedai would have of us, in days when the Coramoor has come, and the seas rage in endless storms, and the doom of the Prophecy sails the oceans. If they are Aes Sedai?” That with a raised eyebrow to the Windfinder.
She answered quietly, in a respectful voice. “Three can channel, including her.” She pointed at Aviendha. “I have never met anyone so strong as they. They must be. Who else would dare wear the ring?”
Waving her to silence, Nesta din Reas turned that same iron gaze on the man. “Aes Sedai never ask aid, Baroc,” she growled. “Aes Sedai never ask anything.” He met her gaze mildly, but after a moment she sighed as though he had stared her down. The eyes she aimed at Elayne were no whit softer, though. “What would you have of us . . . ” She hesitated. “ . . . Daughter-Heir of Andor?” Even that sounded skeptical.
Nynaeve gathered herself, ready to launch into an attack—Aviendha had had to listen to more than one tirade sparked by the Aes Sedai back in the Tarasin Palace and their habit of forgetting that she and Elayne were Aes Sedai too; someone not even Aes Sedai denying it might bring the shedding of blood—Nynaeve gathered herself up and opened her mouth . . . And Elayne silenced her with a touch on the arm and a whisper too low for Aviendha to hear. Nynaeve’s face was still crimson, and she looked about to pull her braid out slowly by the roots, yet she held her tongue. Maybe Elayne could make peace in a water-feud.
Of course, Elayne could not be pleased, when not only her right to be called Aes Sedai but her right to the title of Daughter-Heir was doubted so openly. Most would have thought her quite calm, but Aviendha knew the signs. The raised chin spoke of anger; add eyes open as wide as they would go, and Elayne was a torch to overwhelm Nynaeve’s ember.  She did not usually mirror Elayne’s emotions, except when they were very strong. Wrapping her fingers around the hilt of her belt knife, Aviendha readied herself to embrace saidar. She would kill the Windfinder first; the woman was not weak in the Power, and she would be dangerous. They could find others with so many ships about.
“We seek a ter’angreal.” Except that her tone was cool, anyone who did not know her would think Elayne was absolutely serene. She faced Nesta din Reas, but she addressed everyone, perhaps especially the Windfinder. “With it, we believe we can remedy the weather. It must trouble you as much as it does the land. Baroc spoke of endless storms. You must be able to see the Dark One’s touch, the Father of Storms’ touch, on the sea just as we do on the land. With this ter’angreal, we can change that, but we cannot do it alone. It will require many women working together, perhaps a full circle of thirteen. We think those women should include Windfinders. No one else knows so much of weather, not any Aes Sedai living. That is the aid we ask.”
Dead silence met her speech, until Dorile din Eiran said carefully, “This ter’angreal, Aes Sedai. What is it called? How does it look?”
“It has no name, that I know,” Elayne told her. “It is a thick crystal bowl, shallow but something over two feet across, and worked inside with clouds. When it is channeled into, the clouds move—”
“The Bowl of the Winds,” the Windfinder broke in excitedly, stepping toward Elayne as if she did not realize it. “They have the Bowl of the Winds.”
“You truly have it?” The Wavemistress’s eyes were fixed on Elayne eagerly, and she also took an involuntary step.
“We are looking for it,” Elayne said. “But we know it is in Ebou Dar. If it is the same—”
“It must be,” Malin din Toral exclaimed. “By your description, it must!”
“The Bowl of the Winds,” Dorile din Eiran breathed. “To think it would be found again after two thousand years here! It must be the Coramoor. He must have—”
Nesta din Reas’ hands slapped together loudly. “Do I see a Wavemistress and her Windfinder, or two deckgirls at their first shipmeet?” Malin din Toral’s cheeks reddened with a proud anger, and she bent her head stiffly, pride in that as well. Twice as flushed, Dorile din Eiran bowed, touching fingertips to forehead, lips and heart.
The Shipmistress frowned at them a moment, before going on. “Baroc, summon the other Wavemistresses who hold this port, and the First Twelve as well. With their Windfinders. And let them know you will hoist them by their toes in their own rigging if they do not hurry.” As he rose, she added, “Oh. And have tea sent down. Working out the terms of this bargain will be thirsty.”
The old man nodded; that he might dangle Wavemistresses by their toes and that he must send tea were accepted equally. Eyeing Aviendha and the others, he sauntered out with that rolling walk. She changed her opinion when she saw his eyes close up. It might have been a fatal mistake to kill the Windfinder first.
Someone must have been awaiting orders of the sort, because Baroc was only gone moments before a slim, pretty young man with a single thin ring in each ear entered carrying a wooden tray that bore a square blue-glazed teapot with a golden handle and large blue cups of thick pottery. Nesta din Reas waved him out—“He will spread enough tales as it is, without hearing what he should not,” she said when he was gone—and directed Birgitte to pour. Which she did, to Aviendha’s surprise, and maybe her own.
The Shipmistress settled Elayne and Nynaeve in chairs at one end of the table, apparently intent on beginning her bargaining. Aviendha refused a chair—at the other end of the table—but Birgitte took one, swinging the arm out, then latching it back when she was seated. The Wavemistress and the Windfinder were excluded from that discussion, too, if discussion it could be called. The words were too low to hear, but Nesta din Reas emphasized everything she said with a finger driven like a spear, Elayne had her chin so high she seemed to be looking down her nose, and if Nynaeve for once was managing to keep her face calm, she seemed to be trying to climb her own braid.
“If it pleases the Light, I will speak with both of you,” Malin din Toral said, looking from Aviendha to Birgitte, “but I think I must hear your story first.” Birgitte began to look alarmed as the woman sat down across from her.
“Which means I can speak first with you, if it pleases the Light,” Dorile din Eiran told Aviendha. “I have read of the Aiel. If it pleases you, tell me, if an Aiel woman must kill a man every day, how are there any men left among you?”
Aviendha did her best not to stare. How could the woman believe such nonsense?
“When did you live among us?” Malin din Toral said over her teacup at the near end of the table. Birgitte was leaning away from her as though she wanted to climb over the back of the chair.
At the far end of the table, Nesta din Reas’ voice rose for a moment. “ . . . came to me, not I to you. That sets the basis for our bargain, even if you are Aes Sedai.”
Slipping into the room, Baroc paused between Aviendha and Birgitte. “It seems your shoreboat departed as soon as you came below, but have no worry; Windrunner has boats to put you on the shore.” Walking on down the cabin, he took a chair below Elayne and Nynaeve and joined right in. When they looked at whichever was speaking, the other could observe them unnoticed. They had lost an advantage, one they needed. “Of course the bargain is on our terms,” he said in tones of disbelief that it could be otherwise, while the Shipmistress studied Elayne and Nynaeve as a woman might two goats she meant to skin for a feast. Baroc’s smile was almost fatherly. “Who asks must of course pay highest.”
“But you must have lived among us to know those ancient oaths,” Malin din Toral insisted.
“Are you well, Aviendha?” Dorile din Eiran asked. “Even here, the motion of a ship sometimes affects shorefolk—No? And my questions do not offend? Then tell me.  “Are many Aiel women as strong in the One Power as you?”
It was not the Windfinder’s foolish fumbling about that had made the blood drain from Aviendha’s face, or that Birgitte appeared ready to run once she could manage to unlatch the chair arm again, or even that Nynaeve and Elayne were apparently discovering they were two bright-eyed girls at a fair, in the hands of well-seasoned traders. They would all blame her, and rightly. She was the one who had said if they could not take the ter’angreal back to Egwene and the other Aes Sedai once found, why not secure these Sea Folk women they spoke of? Time could not be wasted, waiting for Egwene al’Vere to say they could return. They would blame her, and she would meet her toh, but she was remembering the boats she had seen on the deck, stacked upside down atop one another. Boats without any shelter on board. They would blame her, but whatever debt she owed she was going to repay a thousandfold in shame by the time she was taken across seven or eight miles of water in an open boat.
“Do you have a bucket?” she asked the Windfinder faintly.


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[1] IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI L.P.A. No.325 of 2018 With I.A. No.5388 of 2019 Damodar Valley Corporation, having its office at DVC Towers, VIP Road, P.O. & P.S. V.I.P. Road, Kolkata West Bengal through its Chairman. . ... Appellant/Respondent Versus 1. M/s Gautam Ferro Alloys, a unit of M/s Bihar Foundary & Casting Ltd., a company incorporated under the provisions of Companies Act, 1956 having its factory premises at Ramgarh Industrial Area Merar, having its Registered office at Main Road, Ranchi through its Managing Director Dr. Hari Krishan Budhia, son of late R.K. Budhia, aged about 78 years resident of Near Surendra Nath Centenary School, Hazaribagh Road, P.O. Booty, P.S. Sadar, District Ranchi. ... ... Respondent/Respondent 2. Chief Engineer (Commercial), Damodar Valley Corporation, Commercial Department, having its office at DVC Towers, VIP Road, P.O. & P.S. V.I.P. Road, Kolkata West Bengal. 3. Deputy Chief Engineer (Commercial), Damodar Valley Corporation, Commercial Department, having its office at DVC Towers, VIP Road, P.O. & P.S. V.I.P. Road, Kolkata West Bengal. 4. Law Officer, Damodar Valley Corporation, Damodar Valley Corporation, Commercial Department, having its office at DVC Towers, VIP Road, P.O. & P.S. V.I.P. Road, Kolkata West Bengal. ... ... Proforma Respondents ------- CORAM : HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SUJIT NARAYAN PRASAD ------- For the Appellant : Mr. Srijit Choudhary, Advocate For the Respondents : Mr. Nitin Kumar Pasari, Advocate ---------------------------- CAV on 04.02.2020 Pronounced/Delivered on 12/05/2020 Per Sujit Narayan Prasad, J.
[2] I.A. No.5388 of 2019:-
1. The instant interlocutory application is under Section 5 of the Limitation Act for condoning the delay of 202 days in preferring the instant appeal.
2. This Court, after taking into consideration the reason assigned in the instant application as also considering the fact that instead of dismissing the appeal on the ground of limitation it would be appropriate in the ends of justice to decide the appeal on its merit, accordingly, the delay in filing the appeal is condoned.
3. In the result, the instant interlocutory application is disposed of.
L.P.A. No.325 of 2018:-
4. The instant intra-court appeal is directed against the order/judgment dated 12.03.2018 passed by the learned Single Judge of this Court in W.P.(C) No.5664 of 2017 whereby and whereunder the writ petition has been allowed by which the order dated 27.12.2016 wherein the decision has been taken by the appellant/respondent authority holding the writ-petitioner/respondent not entitle for remission of the Demand Charge and Guaranteed Energy Charge under Clause 4 of the bilateral agreement for the period from 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005 as also with a direction upon the respondent authorities holding the writ-petitioner/respondent entitled for interest in pursuance of Clause 10.7.4 of the Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission (Electricity Supply Code) Regulations, 2015 on the amount of demand charge and guaranteed [3] energy charge from the date it was paid to the DVC till this amount with interest is actually paid to it.
5. The brief facts as per the pleadings made in the paper-book which require to be enumerated herein for proper adjudication of the lis are :
The writ-petitioner/respondent, namely, M/s Gautam Ferro Alloys, a unit of M/s Bihar Foundary & Casting Ltd. is engaged in manufacture of Silico Maganese and Ferro Alloys. It was granted electric connection for a contract demand of 3000 KVA for which a bilateral agreement was entered between the parties on 25.02.2003. On the allegation of violation of certain statutory provisions, the Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (hereinafter referred to as the JSPCB) vide its order dated 20.12.2004 directed for closure of the writ-petitioner's unit, and on 03.09.2005 its factory premises was sealed by JSPCB.
The writ-petitioner approached to this Court by filing writ petition being W.P.(C) No.5033 of 2005 challenging the impugned action of the respondent-JSPCB and by an interim order dated 25.10.2005 the Pollution Control Board was directed to remove its seal from the factory premises of the writ-petitioner's company within three days, and in compliance of the said order, JSPCB removed its seal on 27.10.2005.
The period between 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005 became the bone of dispute which led the writ-petitioner to file series of litigation. The appellant had issued an energy bill for the Month of [4] October, 2005 demanding the bill for the period from 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005. The writ-petitioner came to this Court challenging the demand of bill raised for the period from 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005 by filing a writ petition being W.P.(C) No.5870 of 2009.
The specific plea raised by the writ-petitioner was that on account of circumstances beyond its control which would attract the Force Majeure clause as incorporated under Clause-4 to the bilateral agreement dated 25.02.2003, it is not liable to pay the Demand Charge and Guaranteed Energy Charge to the respondent-DVC. The writ-petitioner by that time has succeeded before the revisional authority. The Member, Board of Revenue, Jharkhand who by an order dated 05.12.2006 quashed the order passed by the Chairman, Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board holding that the Pollution Control Board had issued impugned order in breach of the second proviso to Section 21(4) of the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981.
The order passed by the Member, Board of Revenue is the major defence raised by the writ-petitioner before the Writ Court in W.P.(C) No.5870 of 2009 raising the plea that when the writ-petitioner's unit has been closed for the period from 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005, the same being in the nature of Force Majeure as per the condition incorporated under Clause 4 to the Bilateral Agreement dated 25.02.2003 and as such the Demand Charge and Guaranteed Energy Charge for the aforesaid period are not sustainable.
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6. The learned Single Judge had accepted the plea and vide order dated 29.03.2011 remanded the matter to the appellant-DVC to decide the claim of the writ-petitioner/respondent regarding adjustment of the energy bill for the period between 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005 vis-a-viS Clause 4 of the bilateral agreement.
7. The order passed by the writ court was assailed in appeal by the DVC in intra-court appeal being L.P.A. No.283 of 2011. The Letters Patent Appeal was confined only to the finding recorded by the writ court in its order dated 29.03.2011 by which the Single Bench of this Court had held that the question of closure of writ- petitioner's unit on account of Force Majeure has already been decided by the Member, Board of Revenue. The said part of the order passed by the writ court was interfered with by the Division Bench of this Court in L.P.A. No.283 of 2011 by disposing of the said appeal vide order dated 12.03.2012 in the aforesaid terms.
The claim of the writ-petitioner, on remand, was rejected by the Deputy Chief Engineer (Commercial) by a cryptic order dated 18.03.2013, being aggrieved with the aforesaid order the writ- petitioner again approached to this Court by filing a writ petition being W.P.(C) No.2408 of 2013, which was allowed vide order dated 10.09.2015 by which the impugned order dated 18.03.2013 was quashed by the writ court and the matter was remanded before the Deputy Chief Engineer (Commercial) to pass a fresh order, in pursuance to the same, the order dated 27.12.2016 was passed, which has been quashed and set aside by the learned Single Judge and directed for making payment of interest for the aforesaid period [6] which is under challenge, subject matter of the present intra-court appeal.
8. Mr. Srijit Choudhary, learned counsel for the appellant/respondent has assailed the aforesaid order inter alia on the ground that the learned Single Judge has failed to consider that the dispute by and between the parties is related to the terms of agreement entered into by and between the parties which can either be decided by a competent civil court or by arbitrator in accordance with the agreement.
The further ground has been agitated that the learned Single Judge erred in holding that the writ-petitioner was not liable to pay Demand Charge and Guaranteed Energy Charge from the period in between 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005 and therefore, exempt the writ-petitioner of the above charges which is not in consonance with the terms of Clause 11.10.3, new Clause 10.7.4.
9. The ground has been taken in assailing the impugned order whereby and whereunder the learned Single Judge has held the writ- petitioner liable for interest in terms of Clause 10.7.4 of the 2015 Regulations.
The learned counsel for the appellant, on the ground mentioned hereinabove, has submitted that the impugned order is not sustainable in the eye of law and accordingly, the same is fit to be quashed and set aside.
10. Per contra, Mr. Nitin Kumar Pasari, learned counsel for the writ-
petitioner/respondent has advanced his argument by taking aid of [7] the condition of agreement pertaining to shortage of power supply to the extent that such failure or shortage is due to the Force Majeure on account of the events such as strike, lock-out, fire, accident, cyclone or any other act of God beyond the control of any party or due to any restraint or regulation of the State Government or Central Government or any other statutory authority, according to him, the learned Single Judge by taking into consideration the fact about closure of the unit by an order passed by the JSPCB which is a statutory authority and therefore, bringing the case of the writ-petitioner under the fold of the agreement as contained under Clause 4, has passed an order quashing the demand raised by the respondent-DVC for the period from 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005 and as such, according to him, since the bilateral agreement contains a specific provision about the consequence of closure of the unit due to Force Majeure, no demand can be raised and if by taking into consideration the aforesaid condition the order has been passed by the learned Single Judge, it cannot be said to suffer from any infirmity.
11. The contention about direction pertaining to interest is that since there is no fault lying on the part of the writ-petitioner in closure of the factory, therefore, if the order of interest has been directed to be paid in favour of the writ-petitioner considering the closure to be illegal since the same has been set aside by the order passed by the Member, Board of Revenue and as such the writ-petitioner since has suffered financial loss due to illegal closure of the unit, hence, is [8] entitleD for interest for the aforesaid period due to loss sustained by the writ-petitioner.
12. He, on the basis of the aforesaid submission, has submitted with emphasis that the learned Single Judge while passing such order in the facts and circumstances of the instant case, has not committed any error, therefore, the order impugned may not be interfered with.
13. This Court, having heard the learned counsel for the parties and after going across the material available on record as well as finding recorded in the impugned order has found some admitted fact which require to be referred herein.
The writ-petitioner has been granted with electric connection for a contract demand of 3000 KVA. As a condition precedent, a bilateral agreement was entered in between the parties on 25.02.2003. The aforesaid bilateral agreement contains a provision as under Clause 4 wherein it has been provided :
"Both the parties shall ensure compliance with the terms of this agreement. However, no party shall be liable for any claim for any loss, damage or compensation whatsoever arising out of the failure to carry out the terms of this agreement or shortage of power supply to the extent that such failure or shortage is due the Force-
Majeure on account of the events such as strike, lock-out, fire, accident, cyclone or any other act of God beyond the control of any party or due to any restraint or regulation of the State Govt. or Central Govt. or any other statutory authority. But any party claiming the benefit under this clause shall satisfy the other party of the existence of such a Force-Majeure and shall make the best endeavour to perform its normal obligations as per terms of this Agreement as soon as possible after the cessation of such Force-Majeure. If at any time the consumer is prevented from receiving or using the electrical energy to be [9] supplied under this agreement either in whole or in part or if the Corporation is prevented from supplying or unable to supply such electrical energy owing to any one of the aforesaid reasons, then the Demand Charge and the Guaranteed Energy Charge as set out in Schedule-II annexed hereto payable by the consumer shall be reduced in proportion to the ability of the consumer to take or the Corporation to supply such power.
Provided that the failure of the consumer to use the electrical energy under this agreement either in whole or in part due to planned shut-down and/or breakdown of machinery or plant in course of normal operation or shutdown of machinery or plant due to non-availability of raw materials or similar other reasons shall not be ground for the aforesaid reduction in Demand Charge and the Guaranteed Energy Charge."
It is evident from the aforesaid condition which speaks about Force Majeure on account of the events such as strike, lock- out, fire, accident, cyclone or any other act of God beyond the control of any party or due to any restraint or regulation of the State Government or Central Government or any other statutory authority.
It appears from the aforesaid condition that the party if claiming benefit under the aforesaid clause, shall satisfy the other party of the existence of such a Force-Majeure and shall make the best endeavour to perform its normal obligations as per terms of this Agreement as soon as possible after the cessation of such Force- Majeure.
It further appears that if at any time the consumer is prevented from receiving or using the electrical energy to be supplied under this agreement either in whole or in part or if the [10] Corporation is prevented from supplying or unable to supply such electrical energy owing to any one of the aforesaid reasons, then the Demand Charge and the Guaranteed Energy Charge as set out in Schedule-II annexed thereto payable by the consumer shall be reduced in proportion to the ability of the consumer to take or the Corporation to supply such power subject to the condition that failure of the consumer to use the electrical energy under this agreement either in whole or in part due to planned shut down and/or breakdown of machinery or plant in course of normal operation or shutdown of machinery or plant due to non-availability of raw materials or similar other reasons shall not be granted for the aforesaid reduction in Demand Charge and Guaranteed Energy Charge.
14. The writ-petitioner/respondent has started running the business after the energy being supplied in pursuance to the agreement dated 25.02.2003 but the JSPCB has passed an order on 20.12.2004 for closure of the unit and in pursuance to the aforesaid order, the factory premises was sealed by JSPCB on 03.09.2005. The writ- petitioner came to this Court by filing a writ petition being W.P.(C) No.5033 of 2005 challenging the order dated 20.12.2004 passed by JSPCB wherein vide interim order dated 25.10.2005, the Pollution Control Board was directed to remove its seal from the factory premises of the writ-petitioner's unit within three days, and in compliance of the said order, JSPCB removed its seal on 27.10.2005.
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15. The appellant/respondent came out with energy bill for the period from 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005, the writ-petitioner being aggrieved with the aforesaid demand has approached again to this Court by filing a writ petition being W.P.(C) No.5870 of 2009 challenging the action of the appellant/respondent in raising such demand which according to the writ-petitioner was contrary to the clause 4 to the bilateral agreement dated 25.02.2003.
The writ court quashed and set aside the order raising demand for the period from 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005 by remanding the matter before the authority concerned by taking the plea about Force Majeure as provided under Clause 4 to the agreement as referred above.
16. This Court accepting the plea of the writ-petitioner and taking into consideration the order passed on 20.12.2004 by the JSPCB as also the same having been quashed by the Member, Board of Revenue vide order dated 05.12.2006 has remanded the matter before the DVC, to decide the claim of the writ-petitioner regarding the adjustment of the energy bill for the period from 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005.
The writ-petitioner has preferred an appeal being L.P.A. No.283 of 2011 but the part of the order has been interfered with by the Division Bench while disposing of the L.P.A. vide order dated 12.03.2012 holding therein that since the closure of the writ- petitioner's unit on account of Force Majeure has already been decided by the Member, Board of Revenue, therefore, the part of the order by which the demand has been raised for the period from [12] 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005 has been interfered with by remanding the matter before the authority, in pursuance thereto, the order has been passed on 18.03.2013 which has again been challenged by filing writ petition being W.P.(C) No.2408 of 2013 which was allowed vide order dated 10.09.2015 by which the impugned order dated 18.03.2003 was quashed by the writ court and again the matter was remanded to the Deputy Chief Engineer (Commercial) to pass a fresh order, in pursuance thereto, a fresh order was passed on 27.12.2016. It has been challenged before this Court in W.P.(C) No.5664 of 2017 which has been allowed, which is the subject matter of the present intra-court appeal.
17. This Court, after going through the finding recorded in the impugned order, has found therefrom that two folds directions have been passed, first pertains to the demand for the period from 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005 and second pertains to interest on the payment made against the demand.
18. So far as the grievance pertaining to demand for the period from 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005 is concerned, the admitted position herein is that JSPCB by an order passed on 20.12.2004 sealed the writ- petitioner's unit WHICH remained under seal for the period from 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005. The order of closure was challenged by the writ-petitioner before the Member, Board of Revenue. The Member, Board of Revenue quashed and set aside the order raising the demand. The writ-petitioner being aggrieved with the demand for the period from 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005, the period for which the demand has been raised along with the guaranteed charge, the [13] contention which has been raised and has been considered by the learned Single Judge pertaining to the provision of Clause 4 of the agreement which contains a clause for Force Majeure. Admittedly, herein the period of closure of the unit is due to an order passed by the JSPCB. The order of closure has been set aside by the Member, Board of Revenue.
It cannot be disputed that the JSPCB is a statutory body incorporated and enacted by virtue of force of law. The condition as contained under Clause 4 to the bilateral agreement contains a provision of Force Majeure and if the operation of the unit due to the Force Majeure will be stopped, no demand can be raised.
19. This Court has proceeded to examine the fact about the condition of closure of the writ-petitioner's unit which can be said to come under the fold of Force Majeure entitling the unit to take advantage of Clause 4 of the agreement dated 25.03.2005. As has been stated hereinabove, JSPCB is a statutory authority, as would appear from the condition stipulated under Clause 4 of the bilateral agreement that the closure of the factory unit due to order passed by the statutory authority/body, will come under the fold of Force Majeure. The admitted fact herein is that the JSPCB has passed an order OF the closure/sealing of the writ-petitioner's unit which has subsequently been quashed and set aside by the Member, Board of Revenue.
Now the question is that WHETHER the closure due to the order passed by the JSPCB will come under the fold of Force Majeure or not ? The same is required to be examined herein.
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20. The order passed by the JSPCB pertaining to sealing of the factory led the closure of the writ-petitioner's unit from 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005, however, finally the order passed by the JSPCB has been quashed and set aside by the Member, Board of Revenue. It is therefore, evident that the writ-petitioner's unit was closed due to the order passed by the JSPCB which is a statutory body and if any order has been passed by the statutory authority/body it cannot be said that the closure of the unit will go out of the purview of Clause 4 of the bilateral agreement dated 25.03.2005.
21. This Court, therefore, is of the view that since the closure is by the JSPCB which is a statutory authority/body coming under the fold of condition underlying to cover the case under Force Majeure, will be attracted herein, and if the factory has been closed due to Force Majeure, the appellant/respondent will be prevented from raising any Demand Charge and Guaranteed Energy Charge in view of the condition stipulated under Clause 4 of the bilateral agreement.
22. The learned Single Judge after taking into consideration these aspects of the matter had rightly quashed and set aside the impugned decision taken by the authority raising the Demand Charge and Guaranteed Energy Charge for the period from 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005, therefore, we consider no reason to interfere with the same.
23. So far as the direction pertaining to interest for the said period is concerned, in pursuance to the provision of regulation 11.10.3 of the Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission (Electricity Supply Code) Regulations, 2005 contains a condition for payment [15] of interest on the excess payment made by the writ-petitioner @ DPS charged by the respondent-DVC.
24. The writ-petitioner is making such claim on account of illegal closure of writ-petitioner's unit and even though the bill has been raised and the same has been paid, therefore, the interest is required to be paid by the appellant.
25. Mr. Srijit Choudhary, learned counsel for the DVC has questioned the aforesaid direction inter alia on the ground that however the closure of the writ-petitioner's unit is not in dispute but neither the closure of the unit has been informed nor the appellant-DVC has been impleaded party to the proceeding before the Member, Board of Revenue questioning the demand raised for the period from 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005.
26. In order to examine the issue raised in this regard, we have travelled to the provision of Clause 11.10.3 of the Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission (Electricity Supply Code) Regulations, 2005 which is pari materia to Clause 10.7.4 of the Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission (Electricity Supply Code) Regulations, 2015 which reads hereunder as:
"If the consumer has paid any excess amount, it shall be refunded to the consumer within 15 days or, if consumer opts, be adjusted within two subsequent bills. The Distribution Licensee shall pay to the consumer interest charges at the rate equivalent to the delay payment surcharge as per tariff on the excess amount outstanding on account of such wrong billing from the date of payment till the date of refund or adjustment in subsequent bills."
[16] It is evident from the aforesaid provision that if the consumer has paid any excess amount, it shall be refunded to the consumer within 15 days or, if consumer opts, be adjusted within two subsequent bills. The Distribution Licensee shall pay to the consumer interest charges at the rate equivalent to the delay payment surcharge as per tariff on the excess amount outstanding on account of such wrong billing from the date of payment till the date of refund or adjustment in subsequent bills. The admitted case herein is that the writ-petitioner's unit was closed by an order passed by the JSPCB which was questioned by the writ-petitioner before the Member, Board of Revenue but admittedly the appellant-
DVC was not impleaded party to the proceeding before the Member, Board of Revenue.
Demand has been raised for the period of closure of the writ-petitioner's unit i.e., 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005, however, the bill for the aforesaid period has been paid. The payment of interest since is covered under Clause 10.7.4 of the Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission (Electricity Supply Code) Regulations, 2015 which contains a provision to make payment of interest to the consumer if the consumer has paid any excess amount, it shall be refunded to the consumer within 15 days along with the interest.
27. It is admitted position herein that the writ-petitioner/respondent was the consumer having contract load of 3000KVA in pursuance to the agreement entered on 25.02.2003. It is not in dispute that once a consumer enters into an agreement for a contract demand for supply [17] of certain quantity of energy, it is expected that the licencee will incur revenue but on any reason whatsoever if the supply would be interrupted the licencee would be put to loss. Admittedly, herein the writ-petitioner's unit was closed from 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005 due to the order passed by the JSPCB on 20.12.2004.
28. The contract demand means demand in Kilowatt/Kilovolt, mutually agreed between the distribution licencee and the consumer or other written communication. The agreement for the aforesaid purpose also contains a condition about Demand Charge and the Guaranteed Energy Charge.
The demand charges are additional fees that utilities charge non-residential or commercial customers for maintaining constant supply of electricity.
These fees usually amount to a substantial sum of money that businesses must pay on monthly electric bills. Guaranteed energy charge payable by the consumer shall be reduced in proportion to ability of the consumer to consume or the corporation to supply such power.
Provided that the failure of the consumer to use any additional power during the period of allotment shall not be a ground for aforesaid proportionate calculation of demand charge, meaning thereby, in pursuance to the contract, the licensee is expected to incur revenue from the supply of the energy which is by way of demand charge and the guaranteed energy charge.
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29. Admittedly herein energy has been supplied during the period from 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005, however, the same has not been consumed due to the closure of the unit on account of Force Majeure as has been decided hereinabove, therefore, making any demand for the period of closure of the unit with respect to the power supply, the same will be said to be unjustified in view of the specific provision as contained under condition No.4 to the agreement dated 25.02.2003 but so far as the interest is concerned, admittedly, due to the closure of the writ-petitioner's unit, the appellant/respondent has incurred loss in revenue due to the contract demand as because the said supply could not have been converted and diverted towards other consumer in view of the subsistence of the bilateral agreement. Now in such a situation can the writ-petitioner will be held to be entitled to get the interest ?
30. We, on examination of the factual aspect, are of the view that the writ-petitioner's unit since has not consumed the electricity, therefore, he has been held not liable to make payment of the bill pertaining to the period for which the unit was closed. Admittedly due to the closure, the electricity has not been consumed for the said period and hence, DVC-respondent has sustained revenue loss for no fault of his own.
However, the provision is there to make payment of the excess amount along with interest but in the facts and circumstances revolving round herein, the question of applicability of the aforesaid regulation which provides provision to make payment of interest will be applicable or not as because if a direction with respect to the [19] payment of interest is passed, the same will lead to excess burden upon the State Exchequer and therefore, it is the position of law that while directing for making payment of interest, the Court is to be conscious on the basis of the fact that if any laches lies on the part of the authorities, the payment of interest can be directed to be paid.
31. This Court has examined the aforesaid grievance along with the finding recorded by the learned Single Judge pertaining to the direction for payment of interest and is of the view that admittedly the licensee, DVC, has not incurred any revenue due to non- consumption of electricity, however, the payment has been raised which has also been paid by the writ-petitioner but herein it is the admitted position that closure of the unit was not due to any laches or fault committed on the part of the DVC and if there is no laches on the part of the licensee and if there would be a direction for making payment of interest, it will be nothing but putting the licensee in loss in two fronts, first, loss in not incurring the revenue and second by making payment of interest.
32. In view of the facts and circumstances and considering the reason mentioned hereinabove, this Court is of the view that the learned Single Judge ought to have taken into consideration these aspects of the matter before passing such direction.
33. In view of the aforesaid reason, we are not in agreement with the finding/direction of the learned Single Judge pertaining to payment of interest, therefore, the same is held to be not sustainable in the eye of law, accordingly, quashed and set aside.
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34. In the result, the appeal is allowed in part.
35. In consequence thereof, the relief pertaining to demand for the period from 03.09.2005 to 27.10.2005 is allowed and pertaining to issuance of direction for payment of interest, stands dismissed.
I agree (Dr. Ravi Ranjan, C.J.) (Dr. Ravi Ranjan, C.J.) (Sujit Narayan Prasad, J.) Saurabh A.F.R.


Strike 'killing' small town
by Darren HandschuhAn ongoing labour dispute is 'killing' a small BC logging town.
Port McNeill Mayor Gabriele Wickstrom wrote the open letter to United Steelworkers union negotiator Brian Butler and Western Forest Products labour director Roger MacDougall, and posted it to her Facebook page Friday morning.
CTV News Vancouver Island is reporting Wickstrom told the two sides, "It’s killing our communities and heartbreaking to see what it’s doing to people. We are struggling and reaching the point where it is going to be very difficult to come back from. We are resilient and look after each other, but we can only take so much before we break.
"Independent contractors are on the edge of losing their equipment and livelihoods. People have had vehicles repossessed and many more have voluntarily returned them so as not to affect their credit rating,” she wrote.
"I am begging you, for the sake of every person that lives in a coastal community, to get back into a room together and work out a deal.”
- with files from CTV News


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TorchMPS Basic Usage¶
As our models are built on Pytorch, users will need to have this installed in a directory contained in the environment variable PYTHONPATH. Torchvision is also used in our example script train_script.py, but not anywhere else.
After cloning the repo, running train_script.py gives a simple example of how our MPS can be used to classify MNIST digits. In general, MPS models can be invoked by simply importing the class MPS from torchmps.py, and then creating a new MPS instance. For example, an MPS which converts 28x28 grayscale images into a 10 dimensional output vector can be utilized as follows:
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See the MediaEval 2021 webpage for information on how to register and participate.
The WaterMM Task deals with the analysis of social media posts from Twitter with regards to issues of water quality, safety and security. The participants of this task are provided with a set of Twitter post IDs in order to download the text, the attached image and the metadata of tweets that have been selected with keyword-based search that involved words/phrases about the quality of drinking water (e.g., strange color, smell or taste, related illnesses, etc.). Because the occurrence of such phrases in a tweet might not necessarily reflect a case of water contamination, participants are asked to build a binary classification system that will be able to distinguish whether a post is relevant or not to water-quality issues.
The dataset is bilingual (English and Italian), and participants can tackle the task by using textual information, visual information, metadata or a combination of the above. In addition, participants are highly encouraged to make their code public along with their submission.
The rise of social media has led to discussion of a broad range of topics related to everyday life. One of the topics that we expect to be mentioned in social media posts is water quality, safety and security. The acquisition of posts containing citizen complaints on the condition of drinking water, as an addition to traditional means such as phone calls, could support situational awareness in a water distribution network. However, within the post stream we expect that a number of posts containing water-quality-related keywords does not refer to actual cases of polluted water. To minimize the incoming noise, automatic prediction of a post’s relevance is required. Filtering out irrelevant posts will improve the quality of the information that interested organizations, such as water utilities or water protection agencies, receive from social media.
Research on developing classifiers for social media monitoring is often related to sudden crisis (see last year’s Flood-related Multimedia Task). Studying water quality allows us to expand the scope in order to include the so-called creeping crisis, i.e., a dangerous situation that emerges slowly.
Moreover, the dataset is bilingual (English and Italian) to encourage researchers to tackle the real-world challenge of multiple languages in the data.
Researchers in the areas of social media, multimedia and multilingual analysis, multimedia classification and information retrieval are strongly encouraged to participate in the WaterMM Task. Industries and SMEs that develop similar AI technologies for semantic data fusion and retrieval of multi- or cross-lingual content are also warmly invited to participate. Furthermore, the challenge could be interesting to researchers and practitioners in water-related domains, such as water engineering, water distribution, and water management in general.
The dataset is a set of social media posts collected from Twitter during one year (from May 2020 to April 2021) by searching for English and Italian keywords inside the tweet text about water quality (e.g. issues with drinking water, signs of water pollution, illnesses related to water). In order to be fully compliant with the Twitter Developer Policy, only the IDs of the tweets are distributed to the participants, but a tool to download them is also provided.
The ground truth of the dataset reflects the relevance of a tweet (relevant / not relevant) and has been manually collected with human annotation, realized by the Eastern Alps River Basin District, who are responsible for hydrogeological defense, i.e., the protection of water resources and aquatic environments, in the Eastern Alps partition of North-East Italy.
The evaluation metric for the binary classification of tweets as relevant (1) or not relevant (0) will be F-score. Participants are also encouraged to carry out a failure analysis of their results in order to gain insight in the mistakes that their classifiers make.
[1] Anastasia Moumtzidou, Stelios Andreadis, Ilias Gialampoukidis, Anastasios Karakostas, Stefanos Vrochidis, and Ioannis Kompatsiaris. 2018. Flood relevance estimation from visual and textual content in social media streams. In Companion Proceedings of the The Web Conference 2018, April 23, 2018, 1621-1627.
[2] Abhishek Sharma, Yuan Tian, and David Lo. 2015. NIRMAL: Automatic identification of software relevant tweets leveraging language model. In 2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER), 449-458.
[3] Alfredo Cobo, Denis Parra, D., and Jaime Navón. 2015. Identifying relevant messages in a twitter-based citizen channel for natural disaster situations. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web, May 18, 2015, 1189-1194.
[4] Oduwa Edo-Osagie, Gillian Smith, Iain Lake, Obaghe Edeghere, and Beatriz De La Iglesia. 2019. Twitter mining using semi-supervised classification for relevance filtering in syndromic surveillance. PLOS One, 14, Article 7.
We also recommend to read past years’ task papers in the MediaEval Proceedings.
This task has been supported by the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreements H2020-832876 aqua3S, H2020-883484 PathoCERT, and H2020-101004157 WQeMS.


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