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! __Rand__ POV

After returning from the failed meeting, [Rand|Rand alThor] spends hours walking through the [Stone of Tear]. [Rand|Rand alThor] thinks of himself as something artificial, not really human. He had two hands, one to save and one to destroy. Which did he lose? A small voice in his heart disagrees with what he has become. Seeing [Hurin] made him melancholy for old times when [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] mocked him and he thought he would marry [Egwene|Egwene alVere]. When he traveled with [Hurin] and [Loial] following [Fain|Padan Fain] to get back the [ruby dagger|Ruby Dagger]. 

He sees a vision of [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] in a dark camp under that sword statue[1] and then [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] in a city that looks like [Caemlyn].[2] He can barely feel [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] through the bond. [Falme] changed him. He realized he could never go back so he set out to [Tear|Tear (Country)] alone, seeing [Ishamael] in his dreams. That is happening again.[3] He reaches the Heart of the Stone where %%ot [Callandor]%% hung and wonders about the sword. It is an inferior %%ot [sa'angreal|Angreal]%% because of its flaw, yet it is in the [Prophecies|Prophecies, Visions & Foretellings], not the [Choedan Kal].[4] He wonders where [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin] hid it.[5] He must be strong, but he cannot control the anger. Everyone is defying him and his plans are unraveling. He failed when he tried to use %%ot [Callandor]%% against the [Seanchan|Seanchan (People)] but he has a better tool now. He only needed a fraction of its power to destroy [Graendal] and all of [Natrin's Barrow|Arad Doman]. He will make a strategic strike and take out all of the [Seanchan|Seanchan (People)] command and army in [Ebou Dar]. 

[Lews Therin|Lews Therin Telamon] recognizes a hallway as he walks through; the place where he tried to use %%ot [Callandor]%% to bring the dead girl back to life.[6] [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] stopped him then. He cannot bring life, but he is very good at bringing death. He tells the [Maidens|Maidens of the Spear] following him to gather a strike force; they are going to battle. 

He returns to his rooms and finds [Tam|Tam alThor] waiting. [Janduin] was his real father but [Tam|Tam alThor] raised him. [Rand|Rand alThor] asks how [Tam|Tam alThor] got there from the [Two Rivers] and [Tam|Tam alThor] tells him he was with [Perrin|Perrin Aybara]. [Rand|Rand alThor] assumes [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] went to the statue and brought back [Tam|Tam alThor]. [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] has been balancing the [Seanchan|Seanchan (People)], the [Prophet|Masema Dagar], the [Whitecloaks|Children of the Light][7] and the queen. [Morgase|Morgase Trakand] is alive.[8] [Rand|Rand alThor] apologizes for losing [Tam|Tam alThor]'s sword. [Tam|Tam alThor] says he earned it when he killed a man who needed killing, but he still never forgave himself. [Rand|Rand alThor] tells [Tam|Tam alThor] that he feels like a puppet, but [Tam|Tam alThor] chastises him. He may not be able to choose what he does, but he can choose ''why'' he does it. [Tam|Tam alThor] lets slip that it was [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin] who came to him, not [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara], and [Rand|Rand alThor] reacts with rage. He nearly kills [Tam|Tam alThor] then in horror he opens a gateway to [Ebou Dar].
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] The sword statue is the %%ot [amahn'rukane|geography]%%. ([TGS,Ch44]) According to [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin], it is near the [Jehannah Road] so [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] has been in the same area for quite some time now.
\\[#2] [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] should, indeed, be in [Caemlyn] per his agreement with [Verin|Verin Mathwin]. ([TGS,Ch36])
\\[#3] We saw one instance in [TGS,Ch15]. It seems likely that it is the bond between them that is causing their meetings in %%ot [Tel'aran'rhiod|TelAranRhiod]%%.
\\[#4] More on %%ot [Callandor]%% in [TGS,Ch48]. 
\\[#5] Good question. She left it with sisters she trusts, but that is all we know.
\\[#6] ([TSR,Ch10])
\\[#7] A momentary preview of events to come in the next book.
\\[#8] Since she was incognito, who recognized her? We find out who in [ToM,Ch26].
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