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"Luck. It only explodes sometimes, she said. Luck"
   — Mat Cauthon on opening up fireworks


Book Index

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

Chapters
Fortress of the Light
1 Waiting
2 Saidin
3 News from the Plain
4 Shadows Sleeping
5 Nightmares Walking
6 The Hunt Begins
7 The Way Out of the Mountains
8 Jarra
9 Wolf Dreams
10 Secrets
11 Tar Valon
12 The Amyrlin Seat
13 Punishments
14 The Bite of the Thorns
15 The Gray Man
16 Hunters Three
17 The Red Sister
18 Healing
19 Awakening
20 Visitations
21 A World of Dreams
22 The Price of the Ring
23 Sealed
24 Scouting and Discoveries
25 Questions
26 Behind a Lock
27 Tel'aran'rhiod
28 A Way Out
29 A Trap to Spring
30 The First Toss
31 The Woman of Tanchico
32 The First Ship
33 Within the Weave
34 A Different Dance
35 The Falcon
36 Daughter of the Night
37 Fires in Cairhien
38 Maidens of the Spear
39 Threads in the Pattern
40 A Hero in the Night
41 A Hunter's Oath
42 Easing the Badger
43 Shadowbrothers
44 Hunted
45 Caemlyn
46 A Message Out of the Shadow
47 To Race the Shadow
48 Following the Craft
49 A Storm in Tear
50 The Hammer
51 Bait for the Net
52 In Search of a Remedy
53 A Flow of the Spirit
54 Into the Stone
55 What Is Written in Prophecy
56 People of the Dragon


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Setting: Illian, Andor near Caemlyn

Summary[]

Point of view: Perrin Aybara

Sammael (Lord Brend) is in Illian, according to Moiraine. Moiraine asks Zarine one more time if she wishes to continue on the journey with them. Zarine ponders it for a moment but decides it is too grand an adventure to pass up. Perrin is convinced that Zarine must have a very good reason for staying and demands to know what she wants, but Moiraine does not have time for this and ushers them out of the inn. They pass Loial packing up on the way to the stable where Moiraine tries to convince Nieda Sidoro to flee the city with her loved ones lest they be killed for her connection to Moiraine. Lan shows Zarine a horse which is now hers and Zarine hops onto it with surprising skill. Moiraine says Sammael did not send the Gray Men, only the Darkhounds. Perrin questions Moiraine on why the Gray Men would be after him when Rand is the Dragon Reborn in front of Nieda and Zarine, shocking the two of them. Angry at Perrin's indiscretion, Moiraine swears the innkeeper to secrecy and tells Zarine that she is bound to them now and cannot leave them. Nieda now believes that she must leave the city. The five of them ride out of the stable.

Perrin hopes the clearing skies will be good for them to get away from Illian and the Darkhounds. Lan tells him that Darkhounds do not like rain, clear moonless nights are when they hunt best. A full pack is chasing them and they gather on top of a hill with a clear view since they will not be able to outrun them. Loial looks at a nearby carving which looks like an Ogier, but they are not near a stedding. Perrin tries to shoot them with his bow to little effect while Loial and Zarine hold the horses to stop them from fleeing. Moiraine finally uses balefire which destroys the Darkhounds. Perrin questions Moiraine more on what is going on and she slips and says that Mat blew the Horn of Valere. Faile is shocked and disappointed that the Hunt is over already.

Point of view: Matrim Cauthon

Mat sits in front of a fire, holding one of the fireworks given to him by Aludra. He takes a knife and carefully slices it open. He sees the inside is made out of paper and tiny gray-black pebbles.[1] Thom freaks out that Mat actually opened up one of the fireworks despite Aludra's warnings. Mat throws the bits into the fire which causes Thom to become enraged, but nothing much happens. A woman and three men approach their fire and start to attack. Mat throws another firework into the fire which actually explodes and distracts the attackers. Thom kills one with a thrown knife, then another. Mat fights easily handles the third man with his quarterstaff. The woman is approaching Mat when Thom throws a knife into the throat of the woman. Mat says she was harmless by herself, so Thom didn't need to kill her. Thom points out that she was holding a dagger in her hand. Mat recognizes one of the men from the attack on their ship when they left Tar Valon.[2] Mat thinks about the fireworks again and wonders what would happen if he set them all off at once. He says they have to get going immediately and is even more convinced that he is being hunted because of Elayne's letter.

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Notes

  1. The pebbles are gunpowder.
  2. The Dragon Reborn, Chapter 32
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