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! __Pevara__ POV

%%red [Pevara|Pevara Tazanovni]%% walks through the [Black Tower] village with %%red [Javindhra|Javindhra Doraille]%% and [Mazrim Taim]. There is constant activity and construction. The wall around the grounds is nearly complete and guard posts are manned. [Taim|Mazrim Taim] refuses to let them bond any full [Asha'man], only [Dedicated|AshaMan] and soldiers.[1] He tells her to make choices soon or he will invite in the other [Aes Sedai] camped outside the [Black Tower].[2] He tells them they must now ask permission before they can leave. He leaves them to themselves. [Pevara|Pevara Tazanovni] wants to bond a few [Dedicated|AshaMan] and leave, but [Javindhra|Javindhra Doraille] wants to stay and study them some more. [Pevara|Pevara Tazanovni] returns to her house where %%red [Tarna|Tarna Feir]%% is writing a letter. Last night she had agreed that they should leave, but now [Tarna|Tarna Feir] wants to stay as well. Her eyes look different, colder.[3] [Pevara|Pevara Tazanovni] leaves and goes to a stand of trees where she is hidden. The Highest[4] forbade gateways unless the situation becomes dire, but [Pevara|Pevara Tazanovni] thinks it has reached that point. She tries to weave a gateway, but the weave fails again and again.[5] They are trapped.
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! __Perrin__ POV

[Perrin|Perrin Aybara] bids farewell to [Mat|Matrim Cauthon], [Thom|Thom Merrilin] and [Noal|Noal Charin] as they prepare to leave to rescue %%blue [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred]%%. They will meet again at Master [Denezel|denezel]'s place. [Grady|Jur Grady] opens the gateway. He will stay in the area and open another to the same place every day at noon.[6] [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] thinks of [Rand|Rand alThor] and sees an image of him speaking with a group of [Borderlanders|Borderlands].[7] They pass through and the gateway closes. [Perrin|Perrin Aybara]'s leg still throbs faintly from [Slayer|Isam Mandragoran]'s arrow even though he was [Healed|Weaves].[8] [Faile|Zarine Bashere] and [Gaul] arrive. She thinks [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] is a bad influence. [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] sees an image of him walking along a river. She says that [Aravine|Aravine Carnel] has everyone ready. 

Soon, [Grady|Jur Grady] and [Neald|Fager Neald] link with the [Aes Sedai] and [Edarra] and open a large gateway to the [Field of Merrilor]. There are many armies already there, [Tear|Tear (Country)], [Illian|Illian (Country)], [Cairhienin|Cairhien (Country)], but no [Borderlanders|Borderlands] yet. [Faile|Zarine Bashere] thinks [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] agreed with [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] to help stop [Rand|Rand alThor], but [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] says he trusts [Rand|Rand alThor] and breaking the [seals|Seals] seems right to him. He orders [Aravine|Aravine Carnel] to set up camp away from the other armies. [Sulin] and [Gaul] can pick the site. He is puzzled why [Aravine|Aravine Carnel] did not return to [Amadicia] as she is clearly a noble. [Berelain|Berelain sur Paendrag] rides next to [Galad|Galad Damodred] as the [Whitecloaks|Children of the Light] ride through the gateway. [Gallenne|Bertain Gallenne] and the [Winged Guard|Mayene] ride near them. [Alliandre|Alliandre Maritha Kigarin], [Arganda|Gerard Arganda] and the [Ghealdanin|Ghealdan] ride through next. [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] has sent to [Mayene] and [Jehannah] for more soldiers and [Tam|Tam alThor] is gathering more from the [Two Rivers]. [Azi al'Thone] and [Jori Congar] carry the wolf banner as [Two Rivers] men ride by. [Jori] apologizes for spreading rumors about [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] and [Berelain|Berelain sur Paendrag]. As he steps through the gateway, [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] hopes that [Rand|Rand alThor] comes quickly. He can feel it starting.
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! __Mat__ POV

[Mat|Matrim Cauthon], [Thom|Thom Merrilin] and [Noal|Noal Charin] stand on a grassy plain near the [Arinelle River] at the [Tower of Ghenjei]. [Thom|Thom Merrilin] has his gleeman's cloak while [Noal|Noal Charin] wears strange clothes.[9] [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] has his %%ot [ashandarei]%% with an iron counterweight. With a bronze knife, [Thom|Thom Merrilin] draws a small triangle with a wavy line through it and the steel in the triangle vanishes. It is way too small so he repeats the move making a large opening. 

They step through with a blinding flash of light and are in a room with four openings. The doorway is freestanding in the middle of the room. They walk down a hallway and through a window [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] can see that he is in one of the spires that he saw on his earlier trips. At the end of the hallway they find another similar room. They retrace their path and find they are in a different room. There is no way to map their route. [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] asks [Thom|Thom Merrilin] if he ever heard a story of someone in the Tower and he replies that [Elmiara|Birgitte Trahelion] spent a hundred days in the land of the [Shadoweyes|Finn] hunting the spring of [Sund|Other History] to heal her lover, very much what [Birgitte|Birgitte Trahelion] told [Mat|Matrim Cauthon]. 

Suddenly one of the [Eelfinn|Finn] confronts them saying they have broken the bargain. It tries to trick them, speaking of the Chamber of Bonds, but [Thom|Thom Merrilin]'s music puts it to sleep. [Noal|Noal Charin] compliments [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] on his mastery of the [Old Tongue]. 

[Mat|Matrim Cauthon] begins selecting passages by random rolls of his dice and they soon find themselves in a large room with fluted black columns. It is familiar to [Mat|Matrim Cauthon].[10] They are on the right track.
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] All of the men in [Taim|Mazrim Taim]'s special classes are full [Asha'man], so in effect he is limiting the [Red Ajah] sisters to new recruits and those still loyal to [Logain|Logain Ablar]. ([ToM,Ch56])
\\[#2] The embassy sent by the rebel [Aes Sedai] before the reconciliation of the [White Tower]. ([KoD,Ch23])
\\[#3] Also see [ToM,Ch56]. What has happened to her? Is this something that was hinted at in [TDR,Ch22]?
\\[#4] [Tsutama Rath]
\\[#5] More evidence that the second [dreamspike] covers the [Black Tower].
\\[#6] As time runs differently in the realms of the [Aelfinn|Finn] and [Eelfinn|Finn], we do not know how long the mission will take.
\\[#7] This must be the meeting in [ToM,Ch51]. The timing appears to be correct.
\\[#8] Similar to what [Verin|Verin Mathwin] mentioned to [Egwene|Egwene alVere]. ([TDR,Ch21])
\\[#9] No idea what this odd outfit means.
\\[#10] This appears to be the room where [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] arrived in the land of the [Eelfinn|Finn] in his [Rhuidean] trip through the [twisted red doorway|Twisted Red Doorway]. ([TSR,Ch24])
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