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! __Egwene__ POV

[Egwene|Egwene alVere] wakes at dawn with a headache. Since [Lanfear]'s attack, she always has headaches after visiting %%ot [Tel'aran'rhiod|TelAranRhiod]%%. She is exhausted and hugely embarrassed by last night. She is so tired she goes back to sleep and dreams of [Gawyn|Gawyn Trakand] again. Then her dreams change.

* Him kneeling while she cupped his head in her hands.[1]
* Twice, right on top one another, she dreamed of taking him by the shoulders and trying to turn him to face the other way against his will. Once he brushed her hands away roughly; the other time, she was somehow stronger than he. The two blended together hazily.
* In another he began swinging a door closed on her, and she knew if that narrowing gap of light vanished, she was dead.
* [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] came and stood before her, a wolf lying at his feet, a hawk and a falcon perched on his shoulders glaring at each other over his head.[2] Seemingly unaware of them, he kept trying to throw away that axe of his, until finally he ran, the axe floating through the air, chasing him.
* Again [Perrin|Perrin Aybara]; he turned away from a [Tinker|TuathaAn] and ran, faster and faster though she called for him to come back.
* [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] spoke strange words she almost understood - the [Old Tongue], she thought - and two ravens alighted on his shoulders, claws sinking through his coat into the flesh beneath. He seemed no more aware of them than [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] had been of the hawk and falcon, yet defiance passed across his face, and then grim acceptance.[3]
* In another a woman, face shrouded in shadow, beckoned him toward great danger; [Egwene|Egwene alVere] did not know what, only that it was monstrous.
* [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] forcing [Rand|Rand alThor] to his knees with one hand.
* [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] and [Min|Min Farshaw] and [Aviendha] sitting in a silent circle around him, each in turn reaching out to lay a hand on him.[4]
* Him walking toward a burning mountain, something crunching beneath his boots. She stirred and whimpered; the crunching things were the [seals|Seals] on the [Dark One|ShaiTan]'s prison, shattering with his every step. She knew it. She did not need to see them to know.

Her dreams change to nightmares, then [Cowinde] wakens her. [Amys], [Bair] and [Melaine] are there to check on her. The [Wise Ones|Aiel] are about ready to let her rejoin them in %%ot [Tel'aran'rhiod|TelAranRhiod]%%. They think the [Aes Sedai] they are now meeting are fools. Actually she has been going nightly since ten days after [Lanfear] hit her. She still gets a headache every time, but she tells the [Wise Ones|Aiel] she feels fine. [Melaine] sends [Cowinde] to do useless work trying to shame her into putting off %%ot [gai'shain|Aiel]%% white and rejoining the [Maidens|Maidens of the Spear]. [Bair] has beaten [Juric] and [Beira] but they still will not put off the white. [Carlinya] suggested that the [Wise Ones|Aiel] were holding [Egwene|Egwene alVere] against her will so the [Wise Ones|Aiel] put [scarlet puffer|Aiel Waste Creatures]s in her dress. A [scarlet puffer|Aiel Waste Creatures] looks like a [red adder|Aiel Waste Creatures] but is not poisonous. [Egwene|Egwene alVere] carefully asks about being pulled into someone else's dream. They reply that it is easy to be trapped by another's dream if you love or hate them. That is why the [Wise Ones|Aiel] do not watch the dreams of [Sevanna] or the [Shaido] [Wise Ones|Aiel]. [Amys] and [Melaine] never heard of anyone actually being pulled in. [Bair] is the only one who heard of it. [Mora], the [Wise One|Aiel] of [Colrada] Hold when [Bair] was a girl, taught [Bair] about it. She still looked young when she died of a [bloodsnake|Aiel Waste Creatures] bite when she was nearly three hundred years old. She taught that one can only pulled into dreams by extreme love or hate so great that it leaves room for nothing else. [Egwene|Egwene alVere] then asks if the [Wise Ones|Aiel] if they ever see other [dreamwalkers|TelAranRhiod].[5] The [Wise Ones|Aiel] reply that they occasionally see other women, but they do not know of other [dreamwalkers|TelAranRhiod]. [Egwene|Egwene alVere] thinks that she can avoid [Gawyn|Gawyn Trakand]'s dream now, if she really wants to.
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! __Elayne__ POV

Everyone in [Salidar] crowds around the [Little Tower|Salidar] the next morning. [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] and [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] are still yawning from last night. [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] sees [Leane|Leane Sharif] with one of her agents. She also sees [Birgitte|Birgitte Trahelion]. About dawn [Birgitte|Birgitte Trahelion] told [Ashmanaille] that [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] looked unsteady so she got a little sleep. [Birgitte|Birgitte Trahelion] was up all night.[6] [Areina|Areina Nermasiv] is nowhere to be seen.[7] [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] was up all night as well. [Moghedien] spent the night hiding under her bed. [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] joins them. There were seven killed in [Salidar] last night and nearly a hundred in the soldiers' camps. [Bryne|Gareth Bryne] is fine. [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] and [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] jab at each other, then [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] tells about the woman [Myrelle|Myrelle Berengari] found masquerading as [Green Ajah] in [Chachin].[8] The woman probably wished she were [stilled|stilling] and dead. The door to the [Little Tower|Salidar] opens and [Tarna|Tarna Feir] comes out escorted by the [Sitters]. [Tarna|Tarna Feir] rides out of town with an honor guard of [Warder]. The eldest [Sitter|Sitters], [Romanda|Romanda Cassin], amplifies her voice with [Air|One Power] and makes a nice sounding speech that actually says nothing. After the ceremony is over, [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] and [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] catch up to [Sheriam|Sheriam Bayanar] who is with [Morvrin] and [Carlinya]. They ask to speak to her in private and they all go into a private room in the [Little Tower|Salidar]. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] tells them about the %%ot [ter'angreal|Angreal]%%[9] that they found. [Sheriam|Sheriam Bayanar] says they will send a letter to [Merilille Ceandevin], the [Salidar Aes Sedai] envoy in [Ebou Dar]. [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] makes it clear that they want to go. [Morvrin] points out that sisters do what they must. [Afara], [Edesina|Edesina Azzedin] and [Guisin] went to [Tarabon] because someone had to. [Kiruna|Kiruna Nachiman] and [Bera|Bera Harkin] are probably in the [Spine of the World] on a wild goose chase after [Rand|Rand alThor]. [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] and [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara]'s duty is to remain in [Salidar] and study. [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] lies telling them they need to send a message to [Caemlyn] because the %%ot [ter'angreal|Angreal]%% needs a man [channeling|True Source] to make it work.[10] They argue some more and [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] finally blows up. She recognized the few [Aes Sedai] involved in the circles last night meant that only a few were in on planning a defense against the [Forsaken].[11] The reason is fear of the [Black Ajah].

Because of the explosion [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] and [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] are scrubbing pots. [Faolain|Faolain Orande] is watching them. She says she has her own special project she would rather be working on.[12] [Sheriam|Sheriam Bayanar] told them that they were about to be raised to the same status as [Faolain|Faolain Orande] and [Theodrin|Theodrin Dabei] but that is now postponed until their penance is done. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] and [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] apologize to each other, then attack the pots again. [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] swears to herself that she will go to [Ebou Dar], find the %%ot [ter'angreal|Angreal]%% and use it to tie the [Salidar Aes Sedai] to [Rand|Rand alThor].
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! __Sheriam Bayanar__ POV

[Sheriam|Sheriam Bayanar], [Morvrin] and [Carlinya] listen in. [Sheriam|Sheriam Bayanar] regrets having to punish them. [Carlinya] points out that less than two dozen [Aes Sedai] know what is really going on.[13] [Morvrin] admits that [Rand|Rand alThor] terrifies her. [Sheriam|Sheriam Bayanar] thinks they may have run out of options.
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] This is the first [Dream|TelAranRhiod] [Egwene|Egwene alVere] fully interprets. It means she will bond [Gawyn|Gawyn Trakand] as her [Warder|Warder]. ([LoC,Ch25])
\\[#2] The hawk and falcon are [Berelain|Berelain sur Paendrag] and [Faile|Zarine Bashere].
\\[#3] This could be [Mat|Matrim Cauthon]'s new status in [KoD,Ch37].
\\[#4] Especially in light of her first dream, this probably means their bonding [Rand|Rand alThor]. ([WH,Ch12])
\\[#5] She is still wondering who [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] and [Leane|Leane Sharif] are.
\\[#6] The benefit of her [Warder|Warder] bond to [Elayne|Elayne Trakand].
\\[#7] So where is she and what is she up to?
\\[#8] This is a different incident from the one that [Brys|Brys (Kandor)] told [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran] about in [NS,Ch22]. The location is wrong and [Myrelle|Myrelle Berengari] would not be raised to the shawl for another six years. ([LoC,Ch40])
\\[#9] The [Bowl of the Winds]
\\[#10] [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] has no idea that the [Bowl|Bowl of the Winds] really does draw %%ot [saidin|Said]%% as well as %%ot [saidar|Said]%%. ([TPoD,Ch5])
\\[#11] In [LoC,Ch14], [Anaiya] was disappointed when no [Forsaken] showed up. Only a few insiders knew about the defense plan for fear of betrayal by the [Black Ajah]. Hence the disorganization that [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] noticed.
\\[#12] Is she just blowing smoke or does she really have something going on?
\\[#13] This must mean bringing [Egwene|Egwene alVere] to be [Amyrlin|Aes Sedai].
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