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! __Mat__ POV

[Mat|Matrim Cauthon] is back at the [Tarasin Palace] on [Mol Hara Square] where he asks to be taken to [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] and [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara]. The sigil of House Mitsobar is a green anchor and sword crossed. The dice are still rolling. Dice rolling almost always mean danger, and something else he has not figured out yet. He follows a chain of servants of increasing rank - [Haesel], Master [Jen], Mistress [Carin], [Matilde], [Bren], [Madic], [Laren] and finally runs into [Joline|Joline Maza] of the [Green Ajah] and [Teslyn|Teslyn Baradon] of the [Red Ajah]. They know he was in the [White Tower] and that he is %%ot [ta'veren|Wheel of Time]%%. They want him to go back to the [White Tower]. There are nine [Aes Sedai] in the palace, [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara], [Elayne|Elayne Trakand], [Joline|Joline Maza], [Teslyn|Teslyn Baradon], [Adeleas|Adeleas Namelle], [Vandene|Vandene Namelle], [Merilille|Merilille Ceandevin], [Sareitha|Sareitha Tomares] and one more.[1] [Adeleas|Adeleas Namelle] arrives with [Sareitha Tomares] of the [Brown Ajah] and [Merilille|Merilille Ceandevin]. They argue over [Mat|Matrim Cauthon]. 

[Laren] reappears with a summons to Queen [Tylin|Tylin Quintara]. [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] remembers [Isebele] of [Dal Calain] making the [Amyrlin|Aes Sedai] [Anghara] come to her before the [Trolloc Wars]. [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] enters [Tylin|Tylin Quintara]'s chambers and says, "%%ot [Deveniye, dyu ninte concion ca'lyet ye|Compleat]%%" ("Majesty, by your summons do I come.") She has pale paper on her writing desk. He leaves a note for the girls about [Darkfriends] and [Carridin|Jaichim Carridin] and seals it with his new ring. Ring engraving - inside a border of large crescents, a running fox seemed to have startled two birds into flight.[2] He tells [Tylin|Tylin Quintara] about [Carridin|Jaichim Carridin] but she does not react.[3] [Tylin|Tylin Quintara] starts on [Mat|Matrim Cauthon], but her son [Beslan] enters fresh from a duel with [Nevin]. [Nevin]'s widow is [Davindra]. [Ebou Dar] has five more festivals in next week starting with [Swovan Night|Calendar] and [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] will attend all of them with [Beslan].
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] The ninth is [Careane|Careane Fransi]. ([ACoS,Ch30])
\\[#2] More precisely, the ring depicts a fox making ravens fly in a circle of nine crescent moons. The exact implications of this become clear in [KoD,Ch36].
\\[#3] [Thom|Thom Merrilin] explains that this is because she does not have sufficient power to challenge [Carridin|Jaichim Carridin]. ([ACoS,Ch21])
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