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"It doesn't seem to make any odds whether I get an arrow in me trying to deliver that letter or a knife in my back waiting. It's six up, and a half dozen down. Just you have that meal waiting, Thom."
   — Mat Cauthon


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: Caemlyn

Summary[]

Point of view: Matrim Cauthon

Mat and Thom arrive at Caemlyn. Mat wants to deliver the letter from Elayne right away but Thom says they should go to the Queen's Blessing to get a meal and a bed first. Mat vaguely remembers the Queen's Blessing and how Moiraine had found Rand and him there after having previously been separated.[1] He's happy to be free of Moiraine now, she's Rand's problem. Mat tells Thom to go on to the inn by himself and he will go to the palace first. Thom warns Mat not to get lost, but it is easy to get to the palace because it is at the center of the city and the streets all spiral in on it. Mat tries to explain his errand to the gate officer, but the officer interrupts Mat and won't let him finish his explanation. The gate officer says he will take no word to the Queen from Tar Valon. When Mat continues to try to explain, the gate officer accuses Mat of being a Darkfriend and commands the guards to seize him. Mat rides away and barely escapes the guards.

Mat is annoyed at himself for mentioning Tar Valon first instead of just saying he has a letter from Elayne. He doesn't know why the palace is so against Tar Valon now, they weren't before. Mat finds the Queen’s Blessing after some wandering, seeking out Thom and Basel Gill. Basel and Thom are playing stones. Basel says Lord Gaebril has replaced half the guards in Caemlyn with those of his own and that Gareth Bryne has been forced out of the city. For luck, Mat rolls the dice and gets five single pips - the Dark One's Eyes. He's just not sure whether that is the best or worst roll as it depends on the game being played. Mat plans to sneak into the palace and deliver the letter directly to the Queen, as the longer he holds the letter the more dangerous it will be for him.

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