The Path of Daggers/Chapter 24
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- Point of view: Kennar Miraj
Captain-General Kennar Miraj is camped a few miles east of Ebou Dar. He has received countless reports of groups of enemy soldiers in the Venir Mountain range and several of his outposts has been overrun. He estimates their number at ninety-thousand, nearly twice what he has. He has several raken and to'raken, but something is wrong with the damane and the sul'dam are staying confined to their tent.
The High Lady Suroth enters his tent, newly arrived from Ebou Dar, accompanied by her Voice, Alwhin and two da'covale. Oddly, one of the da'covale, a short, dark-haired, slim, pale-eyed woman is leashed as a damane, with Alwhin holding the a'dam. The other da'covale, a young woman with a doll's face and her hair in thin braids is sullen and poorly trained. Both her and the damane have a strange, ageless look to them.
Suroth asks Miraj if he is ready to march; Miraj thinks it will take at least ten days for the enemy to combine and march on Ebou Dar. Suroth tells him that there are only about five thousnad men, but fifty Asha'man. They are Traveling, so they could be there by tomorrow. Miraj wonders how Suroth knows this, but she orders him to wipe them out. Miraj asks Suroth to release the damane to him and if they are still sick. Suroth does not say, but she agrees to give him the damane he needs after pointing out the price of failure.
- Point of view: Rand al'Thor
Rand is pushing a final drive against the Seanchan. Lews Therin is becoming increasingly withdrawn. Dashiva, Flinn, Adley, Eben Hopwil, Morr, Narishma, Manel Rochaid, and Charl Gedwyn are all holding gateways for his army. Davram Bashere rides up, accompanied by all the other nobles, joining Ailil Riatan and Anaiyella Narencelona. Rand tells them that there are still fifty thousand Seanchan ten miles to the west and warns everyone to stick with the plan. The remaining Seanchan are still enough to defeat them. The nobles all head out. Weiramon Saniago leads Kiril Drapaneos, Bertome Saighan, Doressin Chuliandred and several minor Cairhienin. Gregorin leads Sunamon and Dalthanes. Bashere leads Jeordwyn Semaris, Amondrid and Gueyam. Semaradrid leads Torean, Maraconn and Ershin Netari. Gedwyn accompanies Weiramon while Rochaid accompanies Bashere. Jak Masond leads a company of the Legion of the Dragon.
The remaining Asha'man join Rand and Dashiva says that saidin is behaving oddly; his weaves are vibrating instead of holding steady. Rand shrugs this off, telling Dashiva that he's just feeling the taint more strongly. Dashiva persists, though, and forces Rand to actually look at a weave, which unsettles him. He secretly wishes Herid Fel were alive to answer this for him. Arlen Nalaam Travels in to report that the Seanchan are on the march and Rand sets his army in motion.
- Point of view: Kennar Miraj
- Point of view: Bertome Saighan
- Point of view: Varek
- Point of view: Davram Bashere
- Point of view: Rand al'Thor
- Point of view: Abaldar Yulan
Yulan covers the body of Banner-General Miraj, to keep the rain off of him. He orders the retreat back to Ebou Dar; the Seanchan have suffered their second defeat since The Return. Someone will have to apologize to the Empress
[edit] Characters
- Kennar Miraj
- Suroth Sabelle Meldarath
- Alwhin
- Liandrin
- Pura?
- Rand al'Thor
- Davram Bashere
- Corlan Dashiva
- Varek
- Abaldar Yulan
- Bertome Saighan
- Weiramon Saniago
- Manel Rochaid
- Jonan Adley
- Anaiyella Narencelona
