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! __Egwene POV__

[Egwene|Egwene alVere] reads in the [Amyrlin|Aes Sedai]'s study. All references to [Elaida|Elaida do Avriny aRoihan] have been purged. [Silviana|Silviana Brehon] is quite effective as [Keeper|Aes Sedai] and the [Red Ajah] seems to have accepted her as a peace offering. She now has stiff opposition from [Lelaine|Lelaine Akashi] and [Romanda|Romanda Cassin], especially over her plan to train the captured %%ot [damane|Seanchan (People)]%% as [Aes Sedai]. 

Most of the [Black Ajah] in the [Tower|White Tower], over sixty, escaped including [Evanellein]. [Saerin|Saerin Asnobar] took a census after the attack. Forty initiates, over two dozen of them [Aes Sedai], were taken by the [Seanchan|Seanchan (People)]. [Velina|Velina Behar], [Chai Rugan], [Birlen Pena] and [Alviarin|Alviarin Freidhen] escaped. In reswearing the [White Tower] sisters, they only caught three more that [Verin|Verin Mathwin] missed. From [Verin|Verin Mathwin] and [Sheriam|Sheriam Bayanar], [Egwene|Egwene alVere] is convinced that [Mesaana] was in the [Tower|White Tower]. However, the list of women missing since the attack and not on [Verin|Verin Mathwin]'s list is short: [Nalasia Merhan], a [Brown|Brown Ajah], [Teramina], a [Green|Green Ajah], and [Jamilila Norsish], a [Red|Red Ajah]. All three are very weak and have been in the [Tower|White Tower] for years so they are all poor candidates to be [Mesaana] in disguise. Did she leave or is she somehow still in the [Tower|White Tower]?[1] [Egwene|Egwene alVere] speculates that [Mesaana] knows how to defeat the [Oath Rod].[2] 

[Silviana|Silviana Brehon] enters and tells [Egwene|Egwene alVere] there is something she should see. She follows [Silviana|Silviana Brehon] to the [Hall of the Tower|Sitters]. Masons are working the hole in the wall into a window. Through it she can see that the clouds have broken in a ring around [Dragonmount]. The peak of the mountain is bathed in light, the first sunlight she has seen in weeks. She tells [Silviana|Silviana Brehon] to mark the calendar. Something has happened and perhaps someday they will learn what it is. Storms are coming but for now [Egwene|Egwene alVere] is home.
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"At the end of time,\\
when the many become one.\\
The last storm shall gather its angry winds\\
to destroy a land already dying.\\
And at its center,\\
the blind man shall stand\\
upon his own grave.\\
There he shall see again,\\
and weep for what has been wrought.\\
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—From ''The Prophecies of the Dragon'',\\
[Essanik Cycle|Karaethon Prophecies]. [Malhavish]'s\\
Official Translation, Imperial\\
Record House of [Seandar], Fourth\\
Circle of Elevation."
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] A key mystery for the final two books! We learn more about her in [ToM,Ch42]..
\\[#2] We will see if she is correct.
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