The Eye of the World/Chapter 5

"I got it a long time ago, a long way from here. And I paid entirely too much..."
—Tam al'Thor (about his sword)

For the holiday by the same name, see Winternight. For other uses of the words "winter" and "night," see Winter and Night.

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VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV

Chapters

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1	An Empty Road
2	Strangers
3	The Peddler
4	The Gleeman
5	Winternight
6	The Westwood
7	Out of the Woods
8	A Place of Safety
9	Tellings of the Wheel
10	Leavetaking
11	The Road to Taren Ferry
12	Across the Taren
13	Choices
14	The Stag and Lion
15	Strangers and Friends
16	The Wisdom
17	Watchers and Hunters
18	The Caemlyn Road
19	Shadow's Waiting
20	Dust on the Wind
21	Listen to the Wind
22	A Path Chosen
23	Wolfbrother
24	Flight Down the Arinelle
25	The Traveling People
26	Whitebridge
27	Shelter from the Storm
28	Footprints in Air
29	Eyes Without Pity
30	Children of Shadow
31	Play for Your Supper
32	Four Kings in Shadow
33	The Dark Waits
34	The Last Village
35	Caemlyn
36	Web of the Pattern
37	The Long Chase
38	Rescue
39	Weaving of the Web
40	The Web Tightens
41	Old Friends and New Threats
42	Remembrance of Dreams
43	Decisions and Apparitions
44	The Dark Along the Ways
45	What Follows in Shadow
46	Fal Dara
47	More Tales of the Wheel
48	The Blight
49	The Dark One Stirs
50	Meetings at the Eye
51	Against the Shadow
52	Neither Beginning Nor End
53	The Wheel Turns

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Setting: The al'Thor farm in the Westwood near Emond's Field, The Two Rivers

Summary

Point of view: Rand al'Thor

Rand and Tam return to their farm and do chores until time for dinner. Tam locks the doors of the house, even though no-one in the Two Rivers ever does such a thing, saying it's best to be safe. While dinner is cooking, he goes upstairs and retrieves a sword from an old chest under his bed. Rand is surprised, he had never seen the sword, and decides to ask more questions over dinner.

Tam teotwc — "Where did that come from? Did you get it from a peddler?"

As dinner is being served, Trollocs burst into the farmhouse. Rand flees through a side window as Tam holds them off, killing three. The two men regroup in the woods, where Rand finds that his father has been wounded and is suffering from a high fever. He returns to the farmhouse to collect supplies.

After entering, Rand meets a Trolloc named Narg who asks him to put his sword down and says a Myrddraal will be coming and will want to speak with him. When Rand lowers his sword, Narg tries to rush him. Standing his ground, Rand manages to raise the sword in time and kills the beast, mostly by accident. After collecting needed supplies from the house, he goes to the barn to get Bela and the cart, but finds the horse and milk cow are missing and the cart mostly destroyed. Wondering how he is going to carry Tam back to Emond's Field, he realizes timbers from the cart could be used for a litter. After using Tam's sword to cut the hard wood and finding the blade miraculously unaffected, he bundles all the gathered gear up and makes his way back to Tam.

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