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"Rand al'Thor might have been routed in a bathtub, but the Dragon Reborn was going to the Sea Folk in a style that would send them plummeting to their knees with awe."


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: Cairhien (city)

Point of view: Rand al'Thor

Summary[]

It has been days since Rand sent Perrin away to Ghealdan. He is ashamed of the passion he and Min shared—he believes he raped her. He is chronically tempted to touch the Choedan Kal access ter'angreal he's hidden away, but refrains from doing so. Dreams plague his sleep covering many different topics. Min comes in (against Rand's orders), and tells of an urgent viewing: he needs Cadsuane around him, just like Siuan needs Gareth Bryne around her. She also tells him about yet another viewing: "I saw you and another man. I couldn't make out either face, but I knew one was you. You touched, and seemed to merge into one another, and…one of you dies, and one doesn't." Rand takes this to mean that he and Lews Therin will eventually merge and that Lews Therin will be the one to die.[1]

Min insists that Rand needs a bath, and the Maidens help. Rand apologizes for being "a monster" when they slept together. Min informs him that it wasn't rape, it was two friends "comforting" each other. Rand admits to loving Min, Aviendha, and Elayne. Min tells Rand that she loves him, too, and so do Elayne and Aviendha. She tells him that he cannot send her away for her own protection and that he needs to deal with the Sea Folk. He promises to do so that very day.

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Notes

  1. In reality, the fulfillment of this viewing begins when Rand and Moridin cross balefire streams in Shadar Logoth (A Crown of Swords, Chapter 41) and ends when Rand switches bodies with Moridin at the end of the Last Battle (A Memory of Light, Epilogue).


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