A Cup of Tea

Book Index

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

Chapters

1	Leaving the Prophet
2	Taken
3	Customs
4	Offers
5	Flags
6	The Scent of Madness
7	The Streets of Caemlyn
8	Sea Folk and Kin
9	A Cup of Tea
10	A Plan Succeeds
11	Ideas of Importance
12	A Lily in Winter
13	Wonderful News
14	What a Veil Hides
15	In Need of a Bellfounder
16	An Unexpected Encounter
17	Pink Ribbons
18	An Offer
19	Three Women
20	Questions of Treason
21	A Matter of Property
22	Out of Thin Air
23	To Lose the Sun
24	Among the Counsels
25	Bonds
26	Expectation
27	To Surprise Queens and Kings
28	News in a Cloth Sack
29	Another Plan
30	Cold, Fat Raindrops
31	What the Aelfinn Said
32	A Portion of Wisdom
33	Blue Carp Street
34	The Hummingbird's Secret
35	With the Choedan Kal

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Setting: Royal Palace of Andor

Summary[]

Point of view: Elayne Trakand

Elayne receives reports from Norry. Deposits of alum have been found on one of her estates which will make it easier to get loans from the bankers to fund the guard force Birgitte is building. He mentions an attack on Rand in the Sun Palace and no one really knows where he is now.

She is brought her afternoon meal. Afterward Dyelin reports merchants have spotted a large borderland army when she realizes someone slipped forkroot in her tea. She struggles trying to tell Dyelin , who then attempts to raise the alarm to the guards. Three assassins come in. Dyelin is able to occupy one and stall another until Doilin Mellar saves the day. Elayne succumbs to the forkroot while mentally calling for Birgitte.