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"Sometimes I think too much."
   —Rand al'Thor


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: Royal Palace of Andor in Caemlyn

Summary[]

Point of view: Rand al'Thor

Rand's thoughts churn in his head. He has to make three visits tonight, one of which will have to remain secret. Lews Therin rants about killing the Asha'man. Rand silently asks Lews how he is different from them. Lews Therin asks right back whether Rand is real. Rand thinks about the time in the chest, when Lews Therin had been his only companion, his only friend. Also in the chest he started experiencing flashes of color and motion whenever he thinks of Mat and Perrin.

Sulin urges Rand to get on with what they are doing because it is late. He opens a Gateway and lets himself feel the strength of the accompanying Asha'man as they pass him. Lews Therin again wants to kill them and tries to wrest saidin away from him. Rand screams at Lews about killing Ilyena and his loved ones. In Andor, after the Gateway closes, Lews Therin expresses relief at having left Alanna behind. Rand lets himself and Fedwin be tied and cloaked like prisoners so that nobody learns of this visit to Davram Bashere and Bael. Rand has some hard moments in the dark of his hood. In the room with Bashere and Bael, Rand finds Deira Bashere, Melaine, and Dorindha. Deira, Melaine and Dorindha shower him with questions. When he comments about them being here in the first place, Bashere and Bel tell him that you can't keep too much from your wife and that he will see that when he is a married man, too. Rand angrily asks what woman he could hate enough to marry her to the Dragon Reborn, causing an awkward silence.

Deira wants to know what he intends to do about the Aes Sedai. Bael tells Rand that Tar Valon has put itself against him; Rand replies that he will let them be and ignore the kidnapping as long as they don't move against him again. While the others argue about whether Elaida will leave him alone, Rand looks at maps and thinks of Elayne, Mat and the Band of the Red Hand, and Sammael in Illian. He hears that Dyelin has put Elenia and Naean in prison for treason as they had themselves declared queens and that Dyelin has been named Regent. Aes Sedai gather in Caemlyn, but no more than ten at a time. Rand misses the Fat bald man angreal, but it hasn't turned up in the things that were recovered from Dumai's Wells.

Rand tells them that Fedwin can carry messages to him, that he will leave other messengers with Semaradrid and Weiramon, and that the attack on Illian will begin soon.

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  • A jealous wife is like a hornets' nest in your mattress: no matter how you twitch, you get stung.


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