Words are indeed "things" that hang in the air. Matter, sound, light etc are all energy. All "things" that are erased by balefire. My argument against balefire is that that dying yell would have been burned out. So either RJ goofed or it was not balefire :p
To my (somewhat unqualified, admittedly) knowledge, sound does not hang, but travels through matter, which would presumably be why we have concepts such as the speed of sound, or echo (and echolocation). If sound were not in movement, but idly remaining in suspension, as the term 'hanging' indicates would be the case here, I doubt it would be sound. Then again, I may be wrong, I confess it is not a question I ever thought to ask, but certainly it would not be something that occurs naturally, which brings us back to my questions: How did Asmodean hang his words in the air, what knocked them down (as they stopped hanging afterwards, otherwise they would surely have been found) and what were they hanging from?

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Asmodeans killer.
21/03/2010 11:20:18 PM
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21/03/2010 11:51:14 PM
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Re: Asmodeans killer.
22/03/2010 12:01:33 AM
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Not how I learned about it.
22/03/2010 12:46:10 AM
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Channelers aren't gods, but it only takes moments or seconds to weave for experienced channelers
22/03/2010 02:23:02 PM
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Rand himself says...
22/03/2010 02:47:16 PM
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22/03/2010 03:18:29 PM
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However...
22/03/2010 03:33:50 PM
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22/03/2010 04:48:08 PM
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As I always said...
23/03/2010 09:10:14 AM
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I think Fain would be more likely.
23/03/2010 01:48:06 PM
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Fain was always just a crackpot candidate, but RJ has ruled him out as a suspect anyway.
23/03/2010 02:24:55 PM
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But souls have never been said to be destroyed in T'A'R
23/03/2010 03:37:22 PM
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Bashere also didn't give him a warning.
22/03/2010 05:51:58 PM
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LOL. I'd like to see Rand squeeze out a "You? No!" while that knife was in flight. *NM*
22/03/2010 07:53:44 PM
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One possibility you dont mention
11/05/2010 01:23:26 AM
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