I didn't make the claim, Egwene did. She considered battling five women in the carriage, and when Silviana assumes the shield, she even says straight out that she can embrace the source now, but Silviana leaves no room for her to do so.


Nynaeve and Elayne were dosed much more strongly. Egwene got much weaker doses that wore off very soon, which is why she needed multiple doses in the first place!

But enough strength to consider fighting five Aes Sedai?

And you ignore the important part, of course. At night, there's no way for her to be dosed. By the middle of the night, she would be fully free of any residual effects you can imagine. Which means Katerine should have had no reason to question Silviana's decision to have two women hold Egwene's shield.

Thanks for proving my point. At this instance, Egwene has been in the dungeons, and has had no forkroot for days. Yet, when Barasine is asked why they aren't leaving, she specifically states she has been instructed to have two women at the shield, not that the shield wouldn't hold the moment one of them left. When the spindly woman leaves, Barasine doesn't panic, and Egwene doesn't even consider that Barasine can't hold her. That's because, as we have ample evidence to prove, Barasine alone can hold Egwene, even when Egwene has no forkroot in her.


And we also know that the need for two sisters is explicitly stated to be an extra precaution, and that in Katerine's view, just Barasine alone can hold Egwene's shield when Egwene was free of forkroot! You're being totally blind here.