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Book Index

0 I II III IV V VI VII
VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV

Chapters
Lightnings
1 High Chasaline
2 The Butcher's Yard
3 Hill of the Golden Dawn
4 Into Cairhien
5 A Broken Crown
6 Old Fear, and New Fear
7 Pitfalls and Tripwires
8 The Figurehead
9 A Pair of Silverpike
10 Unseen Eyes
11 An Oath
12 A Morning of Victory
13 The Bowl of the Winds
14 White Plumes
15 Insects
16 A Touch on the Cheek
17 The Triumph of Logic
18 As the Plow Breaks the Earth
19 Diamonds and Stars
20 Patterns Within Patterns
21 Swovan Night
22 Small Sacrifices
23 Next Door to a Weaver
24 The Kin
25 Mindtrap
26 The Irrevocable Words
27 To Be Alone
28 Bread and Cheese
29 The Festival of Birds
30 The First Cup
31 Mashiara
32 Sealed to the Flame
33 A Bath
34 Ta'veren
35 Into the Woods
36 Blades
37 A Note from the Palace
38 Six Stories
39 Promises to Keep
40 Spears
41 A Crown of Swords


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Setting: Ebou Dar, Tarasin Palace

Point of view: Elayne Trakand

Merilille leads a trial against Elayne in the presence of other Salidar Aes Sedai including Adeleas and Vandene. She and Nynaeve are accused of seeking knowledge of the Kin, which is prohibited. In their opinion it doesn't matter that Elayne and Nynaeve were never told that it was prohibited. Pol rushes in with a letter from Jaichim Carridin, delivered by Tylin, which Elayne reads. Therein, Carridin states that Morgase is alive and he offers Elayne protection across Altara to visit her, where she is currently under the protection of the Whitecloaks and Pedron Niall. Furious and disbelieving, Elayne throws the letter and uses Fire to burn it.

Incensed and energized, she rounds on Merilille and reminds all present that she and Nynaeve are Aes Sedai with the authority of the Amyrlin. Elayne's authority from the Amyrlin supersedes their own from the Hall of the Tower. The other Aes Sedai agree that she has authority over them. Adeleas, Vandene, and Merilille explain that the Tower has known about the Kin for hundreds of years, and that they rely on the Kin's network to track down and find runaways. Eventually all present apologize to Elayne and pledge to help her. The Tower believes the Kin is a small group but Elayne tells them that it is not the case.

Point of view: Moghedien

Moghedien spots Nynaeve getting onto a ship with a red cabin, then uses compulsion to have an innkeeper show her a roof in Ebou Dar. She sees the ship with the red cabin in the river and uses balefire to destroy it. At the last moment, pigeons erupt from the roof and startle her, causing her to miss the cabin. Instead the balefire splits the boat in two and its halves sink. She rushes into her coach, fearful that the entire city is now alert to her use of saidar.

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