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"Three questions? You go like Bili,[1] I suppose, spend a night and come out ten years later with a purse that's always full of gold and a--"
   —Matrim Cauthon on The Twisted redstone doorframe


Book Index

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

Chapters
1 Seeds of Shadow
2 Whirlpools in the Pattern
3 Reflection
4 Strings
5 Questioners
6 Doorways
7 Playing With Fire
8 Hard Heads
9 Decisions
10 The Stone Stands
11 What Lies Hidden
12 Tanchico or the Tower
13 Rumors
14 Customs of Mayene
15 Into the Doorway
16 Leavetakings
17 Deceptions
18 Into the Ways
19 The Wavedancer
20 Winds Rising
21 Into the Heart
22 Out of the Stone
23 Beyond the Stone
24 Rhuidean
25 The Road to the Spear
26 The Dedicated
27 Within the Ways
28 To the Tower of Ghenjei
29 Homecoming
30 Beyond the Oak
31 Assurances
32 Questions to Be Asked
33 A New Weave in the Pattern
34 He Who Comes With the Dawn
35 Sharp Lessons
36 Misdirections
37 Imre Stand
38 Hidden Faces
39 A Cup of Wine
40 Hunter of Trollocs
41 Among the Tuatha'an
42 A Missing Leaf
43 Care for the Living
44 The Breaking Storm
45 The Tinker's Sword
46 Veils
47 The Truth of a Viewing
48 An Offer Refused
49 Cold Rocks Hold
50 Traps
51 Revelations in Tanchico
52 Need
53 The Price of a Departure
54 Into the Palace
55 Into the Deep
56 Goldeneyes
57 A Breaking in the Three-fold Land
58 The Traps of Rhuidean


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Setting: Stone of Tear

Summary[]

Point of view: Elayne Trakand Setting: Rand's chambers in the Stone of Tear
Elayne trakand reddera

"How could you even consider such a thing? Do you imagine we would hand you around like a package? You think a good deal of yourself. There is such a thing as being overproud." -Elayne to Rand

Rand is startled to discover that Elayne did not depart with Egwene and stammers a bit. Rand offers Elayne a flower but cannot summon saidin to turn a bundle of feathers into one. He gives her a bundle of cloth instead and Elayne graciously accepts, taking the feathers as well because he had wanted them to be a flower. Elayne nervously tells Rand how she feels about him and he nervously does the same. She asks him to kiss her and it lasts a long time. She is determined not to let Berelain have him. She wonders if Min had a viewing about who Rand would choose.[2][3] Rand apologizes again for scaring them. She asks if he is sorry about the pinch, but he refuses to apologize for that saying they deserved it. For being honest she soothes his pinch, about the most she can do with Healing.

Gaul knocks on the door then enters announcing the High Lords. They enter and Elayne makes her departure. Seeing Rand among the High Lords she realizes that he has a commanding presence much like Gareth Bryne. She leaves thinking that she has four days left to question Amico and Joiya and four days left to make Rand hers and not Berelain's.

Point of view: Rand al'Thor Setting: Rand's chambers in the Stone of Tear
Rand by Ariel Burgess

Rand muses about Elayne while the High Lords talk. He likes both Elayne and Min and is confused about his feelings. Sunamon Haellin brings his attention back to the meeting while the other High Lords ignore the damage done to his chambers.[4][5] Rand notes how Carleon and Tedosian never meet each other's eye, confirming the suspicions from Thom's timely note. Rand orders them to lower taxes. Meilan immediately objects at the bad precedent.

Rand stands in front of Callandor in order to remind them of who and what he was. Thoughts about the women[5] and his plans hidden within three books keep taking his focus off the High Lords. The conversation turns to the excess grain stockpiled in Tear. Rand uses his understanding of dealings between the Watch Hill, Deven Ride, and Emond's Field during hardship and orders the High Lords to offer the grain to Illian[6] or Altara with help from Mayene ships in return for leaving the small nation alone as he promised.[4] Tedosian strenuously objects. He quells further opposition with his temper and begins to bend the High Lords to do his bidding.

Point of view: Egwene al'Vere Setting: The hallways of the Stone of Tear
Egwene by pollyuranus

Egwene traverses the halls while thinking of Joiya and Amico when Mat appears and walks with her. He seems uncharacteristically troubled as servants and High Lords pass them by. She asks him about the troubles from last night[7] and Mat laughs off the danger. She notes that she and Nynaeve have not seen him in a while. While Mat silently flirts with a servant at least ten years his senior, he claims that he's been busy playing cards, reminding her that the last time he saw them, they tied him up with the One Power and stole from him; aside from that, they are always with Elayne and Moiraine. Egwene retorts that they were only taking back the letter from the Amyrlin that they had given him.[8]

Finally, Mat tells her that he needs some advice about what comes next and the holes in his memory. She suggests Moiraine but Mat instantly refuses the help from an Aes Sedai. She finally tells him of the ter'angreal, the twisted redstone doorframe and the answers you can receive on the other side. Mat asks Egwene whether she wishes all of this never happened and they were still at home, and Egwene quickly says no and Mat agrees. Egwene asks him to promise not go into the ter'angreal without asking Moiraine for permission first, but Mat only promises not to go in unless his life depends on it.[9]

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"The peasants have always paid easily, but if we lower their taxes, when the day comes that we raise them back to where they are now, the fools will complain as bitterly as if we had doubled the present levy. There might will be riots when that day comes, my Lord Dragon."
   —Meilan on Rand's decision to lower taxes.
"We trade little with Illian, my Lord Dragon. They are vultures, and scum."

"We have always dealt with Mayene from strength, my Lord Dragon. Never with bent knee."

   —Tedosian & Meilan on Rand's proposal to sell grain to Illian with Mayener ships.

Notes

  • At least one edition has the wheel icon for this chapter.


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