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! __Mat__ POV

[Mat|Matrim Cauthon] is back at the [Tarasin Palace] on [Mol Hara Square|../geography/altara/ebou_dar/mol_hara] where he asks to be taken to [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] and [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara]. The sigil of House Mitsobar is a green anchor and sword crossed. The dice are still rolling. Dice rolling almost always mean danger, and something else he has not figured out yet. He follows a chain of servants of increasing rank - [Haesel|haesel], Master [Jen|jen], Mistress [Carin|carin], [Matilde|matilde], [Bren|bren], [Madic|madic], [Laren|laren] and finally runs into [Joline|Joline Maza] of the [Green Ajah] and [Teslyn|Teslyn Baradon] of the [Red Ajah]. They know he was in the [White Tower] and that he is %%ot [ta'veren|Wheel of Time]%%. They want him to go back to the [White Tower]. There are nine [Aes Sedai] in the palace, [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara], [Elayne|Elayne Trakand], [Joline|Joline Maza], [Teslyn|Teslyn Baradon], [Adeleas|Adeleas Namelle], [Vandene|Vandene Namelle], [Merilille|Merilille Ceandevin], [Sareitha|Sareitha Tomares] and one more.[1] [Adeleas|Adeleas Namelle] arrives with [Sareitha Tomares|../characters/s/sareitha_tomares] of the [Brown Ajah] and [Merilille|Merilille Ceandevin]. They argue over [Mat|Matrim Cauthon]. [Laren|laren] reappears with a summons to Queen [Tylin|Tylin Quintara]. [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] remembers [Isebele|isebele] of [Dal Calain|../history/dal_calain/index] making the [Amyrlin|Aes Sedai] [Anghara|../../characters/hist/anghara] come to her before the [Trolloc Wars]. [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] enters [Tylin|Tylin Quintara]'s chambers and says, "[''Deveniye, dyu ninte concion ca'lyet ye''|../history/compleat.html#Deveniye]" = "Majesty, by your summons do I come." She has pale paper on her writing desk. He leaves a note for the girls about [Darkfriends] and [Carridin|Jaichim Carridin] and seals it with his new ring. Ring engraving - inside a border of large crescents, a running fox seemed to have startled two birds into flight.[2] He tells [Tylin|Tylin Quintara] about [Carridin|Jaichim Carridin] but she does not react.[3] [Tylin|Tylin Quintara] starts on [Mat|Matrim Cauthon], but her son [Beslan] enters fresh from a duel with [Nevin|nevin]. [Nevin|nevin]'s widow is [Davindra|davindra]. [Ebou Dar] has five more festivals in next week starting with [Swovan Night|Calendar] and [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] will attend all of them with [Beslan].
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] The ninth is [Careane|Careane Fransi]. ([ACoS,Ch30])
\\[#2] More precisely, the ring depicts a fox making ravens fly in a circle of nine crescent moons. The exact implications of this become clear in [KoD,Ch36].
\\[#3] [Thom|Thom Merrilin] explains that this is because she does not have sufficient power to challenge [Carridin|Jaichim Carridin]. ([ACoS,Ch21])
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