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! __[Mat|Matrim Cauthon]__ POV

The [Hinderstap] villagers have all gone crazy trying to kill anyone they can. [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] pulls [Pips] away from [The Tipsy Gelding] and he, [Talmanes|Talmanes Delovinde], [Harnan] and [Delarn] try to flee, leaving the wagon and gold behind. [Delarn] is dragged from his horse and badly wounded but [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] saves him. [Thom|Thom Merrilin] joins them and they ride to the inn where the [Aes Sedai] are. On the first floor, the cook is the only one left alive and [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] kills him when he attacks. Master [Tobrad], the innkeeper, is dead, too. They make it up the stairs and find [Joline|Joline Maza], [Edesina|Edesina Azzedin], [Teslyn|Teslyn Baradon], [Blaeric|Blaeric Negina] and [Fen|Fen Mizar] and the three [Redarms|Band of the Red Hand].[1] Two bound serving girls struggle to get loose. Downstairs, [Edesina|Edesina Azzedin] [Heals|Weaves#h] [Delarn]. They all ride out of town, taking the serving girls with them, and camp on a nearby hillside to wait for dawn.

Hours later, [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] is moping that the [Dark One|ShaiTan] is still chasing him. The %%ot [gholam|Gholam]%% is still somewhere out there. [Myrddraal|Fade] and [Darkfriends], too. [Thom|Thom Merrilin] shows [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] a picture he got at another inn, an image of [Mat|Matrim Cauthon]. Someone is looking for him, a woman in a village north of here.[2] Suddenly, the two bound serving girls just vanish. [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] and [Thom|Thom Merrilin] ride back toward [Hinderstap] to investigate. At the fine inn, [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] recognizes the cook that he killed! He thinks they are ghosts until they reach a spot of intense fighting the night before and see no blood on the ground. [Barlden] comes up and offers to explain. This has been going on for several months, since just before the [Feast of Abram|Calendar]. Everyone goes crazy at dusk, killing everyone they can. In the morning, they all wake in their own beds. [Barlden] dreamed of killing old man [Garken] only to find him alive the next day. [Sammrie] the cooper had relatives come to visit. They were murdered that night and then became permanent residents. [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] asks him about the picture. [Barlden] told [Ledron] that they will not sell out visitors. The picture, and another of a man with golden eyes,[3] came from an inn called [The Shaken Fist] in the village of [Trustair]. [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] rides [Pips] and leads the wagon horse with their food and gold as they leave [Hinderstap]. [Thom|Thom Merrilin] thinks it is sad. There is something wrong in the world. The Pattern is unraveling.
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] The three [Redarms|Band of the Red Hand] were missing in the original printing. This was corrected in later printings.
\\[#2] We learn who and why in [TGS,Ch36].
\\[#3] [Perrin|Perrin Aybara]
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