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Book Index

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

Chapters
By Grace and Banners Fallen
1 Eastward the Wind Blew
2 The Choice of an Ajah
3 A Dangerous Place
4 Advantages to a Bond
5 To Require a Boon
6 A Knack
7 Into the Thick of It
8 That Smoldering City
9 To Die Well
10 The Use of Dragons
11 Just Another Sell-sword
12 A Shard of a Moment
13 What Must Be Done
14 Doses of Forkroot
15 Your Neck in a Cord
16 A Silence Like Screaming
17 Older, More Weathered
18 To Feel Wasted
19 The Choice of a Patch
20 Into Thakan'dar
21 Not a Mistake to Ignore
22 The Wyld
23 At the Edge of Time
24 To Ignore the Omens
25 Quick Fragments
26 Considerations
27 Friendly Fire
28 Too Many Men
29 The Loss of a Hill
30 The Way of the Predator
31 A Tempest of Water
32 A Yellow Flower-Spider
33 The Prince's Tabac
34 Drifting
35 A Practiced Grin
36 Unchangeable Things
37 The Last Battle
38 The Place That Was Not
39 Those Who Fight
40 Wolfbrother
41 A Smile
42 Impossibilities
43 A Field of Glass
44 Two Craftsmen
45 Tendrils of Mist
46 To Awaken
47 Watching the Flow Writhe
48 A Brilliant Lance
49 Light and Shadow

To See the Answer

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Setting: Kandor, Tel'aran'rhiod

Summary

Point of view: Egwene al'Vere

Egwene awakens, still hiding under Gawyn's Warder cloak. She is shocked to find that she had fallen asleep. She observes the Sharans rounding up prisoners, and notes the strange tattoos on various Sharans of different stations. As the prisoners are rounded up, a male Sharan channeler uses the Power to brand them with their own tattoos. Suddenly, the air bends and tears, and a man steps through a gateway to the campsite. He regards the new prisoners and praises the Sharans for their work. As he speaks, he seems to sense a female channeler hidden in the camp. Egwene is terrified she has been discovered, until she sees Leane being captured and brought to the man. He introduces himself as Bao, the Wyld, who leads the Sharans. He orders Leane to tell Lews Therin that he has come to slay him. He tells Leane that he was once called Barid Bel and Egwene realizes, to her horror, that the man is Demandred.

Point of view: Perrin Aybara

The wolves tell Perrin that Moonhunter and Heartseeker (unknown to Perrin, except that she must be a Forsaken) walk the dream.

Perrin and Gaul stalk Heartseeker and find her searching through papers in the command tent at the Field of Merrilor. She almost notices them watching, but Perrin creates a wall in front of them, translucent on their side, but colored with the image of what is behind them on the other, so that Hessalam cannot see them. Apparently unable to find what she is looking for, she begins to float toward the black clouds. Perrin follows her into the space between Tel'aran'rhiod and the waking world, where dreams appear as pinpricks of light. He observes Hessalam speaking into a dream. She finally notices him and attacks. He retreats to the Field of Merrilor, where they engage in a battle of wills, using the World of Dreams to attack each other. Perrin imagines Hessalam's mouth stuffed with forkroot, but she is able to spit it out. He imagines ropes, but she incinerates them and steps through a gateway into a mass of Trollocs and Fades. 

Cyndane apperas and tells Perrin that should have killed Hessalam. Perrin guessed that the woman was Graendal and Cyndane advises Perrin that they are to use her new name, Hessalam, which means “without forgiveness”. She tells Perrin that he could learn to shift between the dream world and the real world.

She then tells him that Hessalam was invading the dream of Davram Bashere, his wife’s father.

Characters

Wolves:

  • Steps
  • Turn Bow
  • White Eyes

Referenced:

Places

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