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! __Nynaeve__ POV

[Rand|Rand alThor] rides [Tai'daishar] to his meeting with the [Borderlanders|Borderlands]' delegation with [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara], [Narishma|Jahar Narishma], [Naeff] and two hundred [Aiel] guards. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] rides [Moonlight]. The meeting is at a crossroads some distance away. The [Maidens|Maidens of the Spear] convinced [Rand|Rand alThor] not to [Travel|Weaves#t] directly to the meeting place. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] tries to convince [Rand|Rand alThor] to support [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran] and his [Malkier] at [Tarwin's Gap|Tarwins Gap]. [Ituralde|Rodel Ituralde] reports [Trollocs] massing in the [Blight]. [Rand|Rand alThor] refuses. He will not attack where the [Shadow|Creator] dictates. He no longer cares about anyone or anything but fighting the [Dark One|ShaiTan] at any cost. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] thinks she has no choice but to try to help [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin] in her plan. She asks [Rand|Rand alThor] if he knows where [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] is. He says he has not been meeting with [Perrin|Perrin Aybara]; he simply knows. He and [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] and [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] are connected. The crossroads is no longer important. Perhaps [Verin|Verin Mathwin] could say why. It is a remnant of the nation that is now only the city-state of [Far Madding]. 

[Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] falls back and rides with [Narishma|Jahar Narishma]. [Merise|Merise Haindehl] and the other [Aes Sedai] were furious when [Rand|Rand alThor] did not let them come, but he demanded a balance, the four channelers and two hundred [Aiel] in his party and no more than four [Aes Sedai] and two hundred men from the [Borderlanders|Borderlands]' camp. [Narishma|Jahar Narishma] has no idea why they left the defense against the [Blight]. His loyalty is now to [Rand|Rand alThor]. 

The [Aiel] scouts return to report that the [Borderlanders|Borderlands] have great honor. There is only one man in their delegation! They ride forward and discover that it is [Hurin]. [Rand|Rand alThor] callously wraps him in [Air|One Power] and questions him to prove that he is real. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] feels sorry for him. He spent a lot of time with [Rand|Rand alThor] chasing [Fain|Padan Fain] and the [Horn|Horn of Valere]. On the return trip to [Tar Valon] it was clear that he idolized [Rand|Rand alThor]. [Hurin] says that he smells something terrible, like death and violence only darker.[1] [Hurin] tells [Rand|Rand alThor] that he is there to set up a formal meeting. The [Borderlanders|Borderlands] want badly to meet with him, but they require that he come inside the [guardian] at [Far Madding]. 

[Rand|Rand alThor] cuts him off and opens a gateway to a point a short way back on the road. They all ride through and [Rand|Rand alThor] opens another gateway to the wooded hollow where they stopped after leaving [Far Madding]. [Traveling|Weaves#t] to a place, one learns it well enough to [Travel|Weaves#t] from there immediately. [Rand|Rand alThor] rides out of the hollow to where he can see [Far Madding] and the army around it. [Rand|Rand alThor] says they want to capture him and put him in a box again. The [access key|Control Statues] begins to glow and [Rand|Rand alThor] says he will teach them a lesson. Frantically, [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] talks him out of raining lightning on the army saying there will be no turning back if he does that. [Rand|Rand alThor] calmly says there has been no turning back since [Tam|Tam alThor] found him on [Dragonmount], but the [access key|Control Statues] stops glowing. He gives [Hurin] a message, the [Dragon Reborn|Rand alThor] rides to [Shayol Ghul]. He will return the army to their duty at the [Blight] if they wish. Else, they can stay here in hiding and explain their failure to their grandchildren. Leaving [Hurin], 

[Rand|Rand alThor] opens another gateway back to [Tear|Tear (Country)]. As they dismount at the [Stone of Tear] stableyards, [Rand|Rand alThor] tells [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] that [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] is camped near a huge statue of a sword point down. He is telling her this as he owes her a debt for caring when he cannot. As she enters the [Stone|Stone of Tear], she sees the place where [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] blasted a hole with [Illuminator|Guild of Illuminators]'s fireworks to rescue her. She has not seen him since [Ebou Dar] fell to the [Seanchan|Seanchan (People)]. She wonders why she embarrassed herself in front of the [Daughter of the Nine Moons|Tuon] over him. 

She goes to [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin]'s room and finds her with [Merise|Merise Haindehl], [Corele|Corele Hovian] and [Min|Min Farshaw]. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] tells them that she knows where [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] is, but demands to know the plan before she will tell. She tells them how badly the meeting went. [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin] mutters that she ''will'' teach him to laugh again. [Corele|Corele Hovian] says that none of it matters. [Min|Min Farshaw]'s [viewings] indicate that they will win. [Min|Min Farshaw] disagrees and [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin] says she is right. [Min|Min Farshaw] views the [Pattern|Wheel of Time], but if [Rand|Rand alThor] loses the [Pattern|Wheel of Time] will be destroyed. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] describes the statue and [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin] says it is the %%ot [amahn'rukane|Geography]%%[2] near the [Jehannah Road]. They will go for him right now. She then accedes and answers [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara]'s question. They are not after [Perrin|Perrin Aybara]. They are after someone with him.[3]
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] [Rand|Rand alThor] now smells bad to [Hurin]! This brings up the interesting question of what he would now smell like to wolves and to [Perrin|Perrin Aybara].
\\[#2] This appears to be something from the [Old Tongue], but there is no indication of the translation and no apparent clues from other known words in the [Old Tongue].
\\[#3] We finally learn who and why in [TGS,Ch47].
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