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! __Rand__ POV

[Rand|Rand alThor] makes a platform and wills it to follow [Asmodean] to [Rhuidean].[1] Shortly he sees [Asmodean] ahead of him. [Asmodean] has black threads running off into the darkness like [Rand|Rand alThor] has seen before.[2] [Asmodean] turns and [Rand|Rand alThor] is surprised to see that he is [Jasin Natael|Asmodean]. [Rand|Rand alThor] thought he was [Kadere|Hadnan Kadere]. [Asmodean] leaves a trail of fire and traps, but [Rand|Rand alThor] counters them all. At last he sees a doorway open and [Asmodean] jumps through. [Rand|Rand alThor] [channels|True Source] to hold the doorway open[3] and jumps through as well. They both run through the fog into [Rhuidean][4] and [Rand|Rand alThor] notes that it is more difficult to [channel|True Source].[5] They both run to the center of the city and grab the male [control statue|Control Statue] at the same moment, each capturing half of the [One Power] from the [giant statue|Choedan Kal] in [Cairhien|Cairhien (Country)]. Much of the city is wrecked in the battle. %%ot [Avendesora]%% burns like a torch.[6] [Rand|Rand alThor] is quickly exhausted, but finally he remembers the [little fat man]. Using the [little fat man], he visualizes the black threads that he saw while following [Asmodean] and severs them.[2] [Asmodean] "quivers like a struck gong. For an instant there seems to be two of him shivering away from each other, then they slide back together."[7] 

[Lanfear] appears and notes the remnants of the shield.[8] She sees [Rand|Rand alThor]'s [control statue|Control Statue] and comments that the only one she knew existed was broken.[9] [Rand|Rand alThor] tells her he severed [Asmodean] from the [Dark One|ShaiTan]. This was his plan so he could control his teacher. [Lanfear] is shocked. She did not know such severing was possible. She agrees to tell the other [Forsaken] that [Asmodean] turned on his own. Then she partially shields him so he is too weak to hurt [Rand|Rand alThor]. She tells [Rand|Rand alThor] that [Asmodean] cannot tolerate enough pain to break the shield.[10] She says the shield will dissipate in a few months.[11] [Asmodean] calls her [Mierin|Lanfear] and [Rand|Rand alThor] realizes she was the one who originally opened the Bore to the [Dark One|ShaiTan]'s prison. He asks her if she hurt anyone at [Alcair Dal]. [Lanfear] says no, she does not kill or even hurt without cause. She calls him [Lews Therin|Lews Therin Telamon] and tells him to use [Asmodean] well. [Sammael], [Demandred] and [Rahvin] are still out there. A gateway opens to a palace chamber all in white.[12] As she leaves, [Rand|Rand alThor] asks which one she was. [Lanfear] says she was actually [Keille|Lanfear] and [Isendre] is in serious trouble for stealing. She tells him to learn quickly before [Sammael] kills him or [Graendal] adds him to her collection, then she leaves and the gateway closes. 

[Rand|Rand alThor] notes that there is now a great chasm in the earth all the way down to the underground ocean. A three-mile lake is forming outside the city. [Rand|Rand alThor] searches the plaza and finds the female [control statue|Control Statue], then he travels back to [Alcair Dal] with [Asmodean]. They agree that he will continue to pose as [Jasin Natael|Asmodean], gleeman to the [Dragon Reborn|Rand alThor]. [Rand|Rand alThor] says the first thing he wants to learn is how to shield his dreams. Back at [Alcair Dal], the rain has stopped. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred], [Egwene|Egwene alVere], [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran], [Aviendha] and the [Wise Ones|Aiel] have joined the clan chiefs on the ledge. [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] sits off to one side. [Rand|Rand alThor] tells [Adelin] to send someone to the fair to tell them to stop beating [Isendre]. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred], looking back and forth between [Rand|Rand alThor] and [Natael|Asmodean], hardly knows what questions to ask. [Melaine], [Bair] and [Amys] scowl at him. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] looks hard at the two [control statues|Control Statue] as [Rand|Rand alThor] wraps them in his coat. He intends to hide them well. [Rhuarc] tells him [Sevanna] and [Couladin] left with the [Shaido]. Some from the other clans ran away as well.[13] They head back across the canyon to make camp and wait for the rest of the clan chiefs to arrive.
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"And when the blood was sprinkled on ground where nothing could grow, the Children of the Dragon did spring up, the [People of the Dragon|Aiel], armed to dance with death. And he did call them forth from the wasted lands, and they did shake the world with battle.

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—from ''The Wheel of Time'' by [Sulamein so Bhagad|Sulamein]\\
Chief Historian at the Court of the Sun, the Fourth Age"
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] This is [Skimming|Weaves] as opposed to [Traveling|Weaves]. In the current Age, [Skimming|Weaves] is unknown, even by name. ([TFoH,Ch6], [ACoS,Ch9])\\
[#2] Coming off of [Ishamael]. ([TEotW,Ch51], [TDR,Ch55]) What are these threads? See the discussion in the [FAQ, Section 1.3.1|http://www.steelypips.org/wotfaq/node/45].\\
[#3] [Asmodean] later comments that this is extremely difficult. Only [Demandred], [Lews Therin|Lews Therin Telamon] and perhaps [Semirhage] had the ability to block a closing gateway. ([TFoH,Ch32])\\
[#4] One can only [Skim|Weaves] to a place one knows well. Apparently [Asmodean] never physically entered [Rhuidean]. He only scouted it from the outside in %%ot [Tel'aran'rhiod|TelAranRhiod]%%.\\
[#5] Apparently something having to do with the shield about [Rhuidean].\\
[#6] In early printings of [The Shadow Rising], %%ot [Avendesora]%% had only a single broken branch. This contradicted [TFoH,Ch2] where %%ot [Avendesora]%% is badly charred, but still alive.\\
[#7] Compare this with the effect of [Rand|Rand alThor] severing [Ishamael] ([TEotW,Ch51], [TDR,Ch55]) and with the crossing of the [balefire|Weaves] beams. ([ACoS,Ch41])\\
[#8] She apparently has not been in [Rhuidean] before.\\
[#9] The one in the [Panarch's Palace|Panarchs Palace] in [Tanchico].\\
[#10] This is another indication that a shield can be broken and hints at how [Moghedien] escaped from [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara]. ([TSR,Ch54])\\
[#11] There is nothing to indicate whether or not this statement is true, but outside of her masquerade as [Selene|Lanfear], [Lanfear] has never demonstrably lied to [Rand|Rand alThor]. \\
[#12] Holding the [One Power] makes it possible to learn a place well enough to [Travel|Weaves] in a matter of minutes. ([TPoD,Ch5])\\
[#13] The beginning of the Bleakness.\\
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