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! __Mat__ POV

[Mat|Matrim Cauthon] enters [The Woman of Tanchico]. [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] recognizes a man playing the harp as [Thom Merrilin]. Surprisingly, [Thom|Thom Merrilin] is drunk and seems sad. He is telling the story of "[ Mara|Fictional Characters] and the Three Foolish Kings," [Madel|Fictional Characters], [Orander|Fictional Characters], and [Kadar|Fictional Characters]. [Thom|Thom Merrilin] finishes the story and joins [Mat|Matrim Cauthon]. [Thom|Thom Merrilin] has been at [The Woman of Tanchico] for weeks. Two serving girls, [Mada] and [Saal], bring [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] and [Thom|Thom Merrilin] a huge dinner that [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] promptly eats. [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] tells him that [Rand|Rand alThor] said he was alive and [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] believed he was also. [Thom|Thom Merrilin] comments that [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] is a fine woman if she were not [Aes Sedai].[1] [Thom|Thom Merrilin] is despondent over his loss of [Morgase|Morgase Trakand], then [Dena]. [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] asks him why he left [Cairhien|Cairhien (City)] and [Thom|Thom Merrilin] implies that he killed a man.[2] [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] asks why he came to [Tar Valon] and [Thom|Thom Merrilin] says it is the worst place in the world for him outside of [Caemlyn]. He says some of the [Red Ajah] remember him.[3] [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] invites [Thom|Thom Merrilin] to go to [Caemlyn] with him and [Thom|Thom Merrilin] agrees. As they leave, [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] looks around nervously, but [Thom|Thom Merrilin] tells him the guards and [Aes Sedai] make sure there are no thieves in [Tar Valon].[4] They head toward the docks.
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] Another hint of the potential relationship between [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] and [Thom|Thom Merrilin].\\
[#2] Undoubtedly King [Galldrian|Galldrian su Riatin Rie].\\
[#3] Why would the [Red Ajah] remember [Thom|Thom Merrilin]? Something to do with his nephew, [Owyn]?\\
[#4] So the men who followed [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] in [TDR,Ch30] were not thieves. They were [Darkfriends]. There are no thieves in [Tar Valon] because of the [Chair of Remorse]. ([WH,Prologue])\\
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