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! __Mat__ POV

After [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] and the others leave, [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] spends the rest of the day planning and hoarding food. [Anaiya] checks up on him and says he is much better. He stays in his room all day except for a brief excursion to get a large pack. Late afternoon he packs up everything and leaves the [White Tower] grounds. He intends to gamble a short while to raise money then catch the first ship to [Aringill]. He gets caught up in the gambling however. His luck used to be average, at best. After [Shadar Logoth|Aridhol (City)], his luck was always very good. Now it is phenomenal. He wins every toss. A [Sea Folk] sailor named [Raab] follows him from tavern to tavern getting rich just by betting on [Mat|Matrim Cauthon]. In one tavern, [The Tremalking Splice], a man upsets him greatly saying he has the [Dark One|Shaitan]'s own luck. Some men with daggers follow him. [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] thinks they are pickpockets.[1] An ordinary man he barely notices[2] tries to kill him. [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] and the man fall thirty feet off a bridge. [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] lands on the man and is unhurt, but the man's dagger is implanted in his own heart. Shaken, [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] looks for a quiet inn to rest a bit and enters [The Woman of Tanchico].
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] [Darkfriends], no doubt. [Thom|Thom Merrilin] notes that there are no pickpockets in [Tar Valon]. ([TDR,Ch31])\\
[#2] A [Gray Man].\\
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