[{Table style='width:100%' | [{Image src='Chapter Icons/btar_lft.gif' link='Wiki.jsp?page=TEotW,Ch47'}] | %%(display:block; text-align:center;) [{Image src='Chapter Icons/blight_bw.gif' align='center' link='Wiki.jsp?page=Blight Chapter Icon'}] ''[TEotW|The Eye of the World]: The Blight'' %% | [{Image src='Chapter Icons/btar_rgt.gif' link='Wiki.jsp?page=TEotW,Ch49' align='right'}] }] %%tabs !__Rand__ POV The next morning soldiers ride out from [Fal Dara] to join King [Easar|Easar Togita] from [Fal Moran] and forces from other fortresses, [Ankor Dail], [Mos Shirare], [Fal Sion] and [Camron Caan], to ride to [Tarwin's Gap|Tarwins Gap]. [Ingtar|Ingtar Shinowa] rides with %%blue [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred]%% and the others to the [Shienaran|Shienar] border. He tells [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran], %%ot [Suravye ninto manshima taishite|Compleat]%%" ("Peace favor your sword"). As [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred], [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran], [Rand|Rand alThor], [Mat|Matrim Cauthon], [Perrin|Perrin Aybara], [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara], [Egwene|Egwene alVere] and [Loial] ride into the [Blight] the weather becomes warm and humid and feels wrong to [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] and [Rand|Rand alThor]. [Loial] dislikes the heat as [Stedding Shangtai] is in the mountains. [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran] warns them of dangerous flora and fauna such as the [Stick]. The [Green Man|Someshta] has always been found beyond the high passes of the [Mountains of Dhoom]. They make camp by the [Seven Towers] so they will reach the mountains in broad daylight. While [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran] and the boys hobble [Mandarb], [Aldieb], [Bela] and the other horses, [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] sets an invisibility ward.[1] [Rand|Rand alThor] cannot sleep and overhears [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] and [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran] have a heart to heart talk. [Lan] states "I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all." \\ \\ More [Category Rand POV|Rand POV] %% %%collapsebox-closed ! Notes (Possible Spoilers) [#1] This is a special trick she must have learned on her own. It is not common knowledge among [Aes Sedai]. ([LoC,Prologue]) She also knows at least a bit about [Illusion|Weaves]. ([TEotW,Ch17]) %% ---- More [Category Chapters|Category.Chapters], [Blight Chapter Icon]