Heart-friend

A heart-friend is the Seanchan equivalent to the Westlands pillow friend.
It is a lesbian relationship that takes place between two damane, and is encouraged in order to help improve the mood of poorly-trained damane, particularly those who have been captured in the Westlands with no expectation of serving as slaves.
“Pillow friends are not just good friends. Oh, they are that, too, but they also get hot and sweaty together and muss up the sheets something fierce. By the way, pillow friends is a term used in the White Tower. The same relationship between men or women elsewhere would be called something else, depending on the country."
: Robert Jordan's Blog on September 30, 2005
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