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! __Aviendha__ POV

Everyone is preparing to depart for [Bandar Eban]. To [Aviendha], it is mostly chaos. [Bashere|Davram Bashere]'s troops are more orderly than the rest. She is still undergoing useless work as punishment, dripping water from one bucket to another. [Min|Min Farshaw] comes up and tries to start a conversion. She completely misses how embarrassing this is to [Aviendha]. [Aviendha] knows of the attack by [Semirhage] the night before; she felt [Rand|Rand alThor]'s anguish and raised the alarm. [Min|Min Farshaw] worried that they might fight over [Rand|Rand alThor] and flourishes her knives. [Aviendha] thinks how foolish that is, like [Thom Merrilin] used to do. In puzzlement, [Min|Min Farshaw] comments one time too many on [Aviendha]'s chore and [Aviendha] cracks. 

She storms through the camp until she finds [Amys], [Bair] and [Melaine]. She says she refuses to take orders from them any more if they have nothing left to teach her. [Bair] and [Melaine] laugh! [Aviendha] has finally passed the last test, demanding to be accepted as an equal! The declaration makes one a [Wise One|Aiel]. This is the reason [Sevanna] was accepted by the others.[1] [Aviendha] will now [Travel|Weaves#t] to [Cold Rocks] Hold then run to [Rhuidean] where she will traverse the [glass columns]. As she walks through the gateway to the [Aiel Waste] she exults. Her honor has returned.
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! __Romanda__ POV

[Shemerin] is in [Romanda|Romanda Cassin]'s tent being questioned by her, [Siuan|Siuan Sanche], [Lelaine|Lelaine Akashi], [Sheriam|Sheriam Bayanar] and [Magla|Magla Daronos]. [Shemerin] answers all their questions without complaint and tells them of the Watergate she used to escape the city, by the statues of [Eleyan al'Landerin][2] and her [Warder]. [Romanda|Romanda Cassin] and the others are shocked that [Elaida|Elaida do Avriny aRoihan] had the audacity to demote her, especially for such a minor offense. [Romanda|Romanda Cassin] almost wishes that [Egwene|Egwene alVere] would return to stifle [Lelaine|Lelaine Akashi]'s plotting. They met with her in %%ot [Tel'aran'rhiod|TelAranRhiod]%% last night and know she is now imprisoned but still refusing rescue. As the questioning continues, she notices a lump moving under the floor of the tent. The canvas rips and a huge roach scuttles across the floor. In moments there is a flood of roaches. The sisters screech. [Rorik] and [Burin|Burin Shaeren] burst into the tent but stare helplessly at the vermin. They all scramble out of the tent. [Lelaine|Lelaine Akashi] asks if [Romanda|Romanda Cassin] had anything she values in the tent. [Romanda|Romanda Cassin] channels [Fire|One Power] and torches her tent. [Magla|Magla Daronos] says the roaches are a kind only seen in [Shara]. [Romanda|Romanda Cassin] thinks [Egwene|Egwene alVere] is right. The end is coming soon. She wonders if she could make herself bow to [Elaida|Elaida do Avriny aRoihan] to make the [White Tower] whole for the [Last Battle|Creator].
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] This explains why the [Wise Ones|Aiel] of the [Shaido] ([LoC,Prologue]) and other clans ([LoC,Ch32]) grudgingly accepted [Sevanna] as a [Wise One|Aiel].
\\[#2] A curiously familiar name!
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