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__[Rand|Rand alThor]__ POV - [Rand|Rand alThor] wakes late, still with a headache, and goes down to the kitchen for breakfast. [Sara|sara], the cook, is confronting Master [Fitch|fitch] about her cat, [Cirri|../creatures/pets/cirri]. Guests complained about the cat leaving rats lying around with broken backs. [Ciel|ciel], a serving girl, gets [Rand|Rand alThor] some food while [Thom|Thom Merrilin] performs the [Great Hunt of the Horn|../items/horn_of_valere] in the common room. [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] is still in bed recovering from the same bad dream [Rand|Rand alThor] had. [Rand|Rand alThor] goes out, passing [Mutch|mutch] in the stable, and sits outside the inn. [Min|Min Farshaw] walks up. She knows [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred]'s real name, having met her on the way to [Emond's Field|Emonds Field]. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] heard about her from other [Aes Sedai].[1] [Min|Min Farshaw] describes her [viewing|viewings] to [Rand|Rand alThor]. She sees the following:


* The whole group - "Sparks swirling around you, thousands of them, and a big shadow, darker than midnight. The sparks are trying to fill the shadow, and the shadow is trying to swallow the sparks. You are all tied together in something dangerous."
* [Egwene|Egwene alVere] - "She's part of it. You're in love with her. She loves you, too, but she's not for you, or you for her. Not the way you both want.[2] When I look at her, I see the same as when I look at Mistress [Alys|Moiraine Damodred]. She won't refuse it."[3]
* [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran] - "Seven ruined towers around his head, and a babe in a cradle holding a sword."[4]
* [Thom|Thom Merrilin] - "A man—not him—juggling fire,[5] and the [White Tower]."[6]
* [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] - "A wolf,[7] and a broken crown,[8] and trees flowering all around him."
* [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] - "A red eagle,[9] an eye on a balance scale,[10] a dagger with a ruby,[11] a horn,[12] and a laughing face."
* [Rand|Rand alThor] - "A sword that isn't a sword,[13] a golden crown of laurel leaves,[14] a beggar's staff,[15] you pouring water on sand,[16] a bloody hand and white-hot iron,[17] three women standing over a funeral bier with you on it, black rock wet with blood, lightning around you, some striking at you, some coming out of you. You and I will meet again." [18]


[Rand|Rand alThor] goes for a walk and runs into [Padan Fain]. [Fain|Padan Fain] acts fearful and elusive. [Rand|Rand alThor] tells him where they are staying and when they are leaving, then [Fain|Padan Fain] runs away. [Rand|Rand alThor] runs into [Mat|Matrim Cauthon]. He had the same nightmare. They agree not to tell [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] about them. [Rand|Rand alThor] feels very light headed.[19] He tells [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] about [Min|Min Farshaw]'s [viewings]. They see three [Whitecloaks]. [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] thinks they look like [Eward Congar|../characters/e/eward_congar] with his nose always in the air. [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] plays a trick loosing barrels that splash mud on the [Whitecloaks]. The leader is Lord [Dain Bornhald]. In a manic mood, [Rand|Rand alThor] laughs at the [Whitecloaks] then stands his ground, angering them.[19] The Town Watch appears and the [Whitecloaks] leave. [Rand|Rand alThor] is suddenly back in his right mind. They head back to the inn and meet [Thom|Thom Merrilin] on the way. They tell him about [Ba'alzamon|Ishamael] and the dream. [Thom|Thom Merrilin] tells them those names are dangerous and they should forget them. The [Eye of the World] is a legend in the [Borderlands]. [Thom|Thom Merrilin] counsels them to tell no one. Back at inn, they meet [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] who agrees to keep quiet. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] is there.[20] She followed them and made [Hightower|hightower] row her across river. She is meeting with [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred]. They all enter the inn.
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!! Notes


[#1]<li start=1>There is a [Blue Ajah] report on [Min|Min Farshaw]. ([ACoS,Ch34])\\
[#2]<li start=2>See [TSR,Ch7]\\
[#3]<li start=3>[Egwene|Egwene alVere] becoming [Aes Sedai]\\
[#4]<li start=4>[Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran]'s past\\
[#5]<li start=5>[Mat|Matrim Cauthon] and fireworks\\
[#6]<li start=6>[Thom|Thom Merrilin] and [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred]\\
[#7]<li start=7>[Perrin|Perrin Aybara] will become a [Wolfbrother|../creatures/wolves/index].\\
[#8]<li start=8>The Broken Crown of [Saldaea]. ([LoC,Ch46], [WH,Prologue|../books/wh/prologue])\\
[#9]<li start=9>[Manetheren], and [Aemon|aemon]'s personal army, the [Band of the Red Hand]\\
<a name="footnote10"><li start=10>Events at the end of [Towers of Midnight]\\
<a name="footnote11"><li start=11>The [Ruby Dagger]\\
<a name="footnote12"><li start=12>The [Horn of Valere]\\
<a name="footnote13"><li start=13>''[Callandor]''\\
<a name="footnote14"><li start=14>The crown of [Illian|Illian (Country)] ([ACoS,Ch41])\\
<a name="footnote15"><li start=15>Events in [TGS,Ch49]\\
<a name="footnote16"><li start=16>Bringing up water from the underground lake in [Rhuidean] ([TSR,Ch24]), ([TSR,Ch58]) and/or ([TFoH,Ch7])\\
<a name="footnote17"><li start=17>This does not quite seem to fit [KoD,Ch27].\\
<a name="footnote18"><li start=18>She also [views|../prophecies/viewings] three women's faces, [Elayne|Elayne Trakand], [Aviendha] and herself. She lies about this to [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] ([TSR,Ch1]) and does not fully disclose it until [TFoH,Ch50].\\
<a name="footnote19"><li start=19>Still the reaction to [channeling|True Source]. ([TEotW,Ch11]) In [TEotW,Ch21], [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] describes these reactions almost word for word as symptoms of [channeling|True Source] sickness.\\
<a name="footnote20"><li start=20>[Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] easily found them at the [Stag and Lion|../geography/andor/baerlon/stag_and_lion] because of the affinity she developed for [Egwene|Egwene alVere] when she [Healed|Weaves] her. ([TEotW,Ch21])\\


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* [Strangers and Friends: Rand Encounters Min|http://members.shaw.ca/jbeveridge/teotw20.htm] ([James Beveridge|http://members.shaw.ca/jbeveridge/wot01.htm])

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