[{Table style='width:100%' | [{Image src='Chapter Icons/btar_lft.gif' link='Wiki.jsp?page=TGH,Ch33'}] | %%(display:block; text-align:center;) [{Image src='Chapter Icons/wheel_bw.gif' align='center' link='Wiki.jsp?page=Wheel Chapter Icon'}] ''[TGH|The Great Hunt]: The Wheel Weaves'' %% | [{Image src='Chapter Icons/btar_rgt.gif' link='Wiki.jsp?page=TGH,Ch35' align='right'}] }] %%tabs ! __Thom__ POV The next morning [Thom|Thom Merrilin] is returning to [The Bunch of Grapes]. He stopped by [The Great Tree], but [Rand|Rand alThor] and the others were already gone. At the inn, he finds [Dena] dead. [Thom|Thom Merrilin] kills the two men waiting for him. They claimed to be from [Barthanes|Barthanes Damodred] who wanted information on [Rand|Rand alThor]. [Zera] enters having just heard from [Ella] that men were waiting for [Thom|Thom Merrilin]. [Thom|Thom Merrilin] says he has another man to kill. [Zera] tells him [Barthanes|Barthanes Damodred] is dead, torn to pieces in his own bedroom.[1] [Zera] takes a closer look at the two men and says they worked for [Galldrian|Galldrian su Riatin Rie].[2] There is a lot of smoke and [Thom|Thom Merrilin] can see that the graneries are on fire.[3] \\ \\ More [Thom POV] ! __Padan Fain__ POV [Fain|Padan Fain] is riding into [Falme] with the chest. He left the [Darkfriends] and [Trollocs] at a camp in the hills. All the people he has met are tense and afraid so he thinks he will do well.[4] [Fain|Padan Fain] takes the chest to High Lord [Turak|Turak Aladon]. [Turak|Turak Aladon] opens the chest and is suitably impressed. He keeps the [Horn|Horn of Valere] and the [ruby dagger|Ruby Dagger]. [Fain|Padan Fain] is frustrated, the [Horn|Horn of Valere] was a means to an end, but the [ruby dagger|Ruby Dagger] is part of him. [Fain|Padan Fain] demands the [ruby dagger|Ruby Dagger] and [Turak|Turak Aladon]'s attendant, [Huon|Huan], knocks him down. [Fain|Padan Fain] plans how he will kill him.[5] [Fain|Padan Fain] tells [Turak|Turak Aladon] a story of loyalty to [Hawkwing|Artur Hawkwing]'s blood. He says the banner on the roof was the banner of [Luthair Paendrag|Luthair Paendrag Mondwin], [Hawkwing|Artur Hawkwing]'s son. [Turak|Turak Aladon] talks of the [Seanchan|Seanchan (People)] [Empress] and the [Crystal Throne] in the [Court of the Nine Moons|Seandar] in [Seandar]. Her second daughter, [Tuon|Tuon Athaem Kore Paendrag],[6] is currently favored for succession. [Turak|Turak Aladon] is of House of Aladon. [Fain|Padan Fain] thinks [Rand|Rand alThor] will be a day or two behind him.[7] He tells [Turak|Turak Aladon] that [Rand|Rand alThor] is a [Darkfriend|Darkfriends] and has [Trollocs]. [Turak|Turak Aladon] says there were no [Trollocs] in [Seanchan|Seanchan (Country)] but the [Armies of the Night|Seanchan (People)] had other allies. He wonders if a %%ot [grolm]%% could kill a [Trolloc|Trollocs].[8] He dismisses [Fain|Padan Fain] who goes to search for an inn. \\ \\ More [Padan Fain POV] %% %%collapsebox-closed ! Notes (Possible Spoilers) [#1] There is nothing more ever mentioned about [Barthanes|Barthanes Damodred]' death but the style, someone mangled in a closed and guarded room, has all the earmarks of the %%ot [gholam|Gholam]%%.\\ [#2] [Thom|Thom Merrilin]'s thoughts are clear. He intends to kill [Galldrian|Galldrian su Riatin Rie].\\ [#3] Who started the fire and why?\\ [#4] [Mordeth] coming through.\\ [#5] And does. ([TGH,Ch45])\\ [#6] [Mat|Matrim Cauthon]'s [Daughter of the Nine Moons|Tuon].\\ [#7] Evidently [Fain|Padan Fain] does not realize that he has imprinted his need to follow [Rand|Rand alThor] on %%ot [Machin Shin]%% and that is now preventing [Rand|Rand alThor] from following him.\\ [#8] [Luthair Paendrag|Luthair Paendrag Mondwin]'s invading forces thought the exotic creatures of [Seanchan|Seanchan (Country)] were [Shadowspawn] but there were not. In fact, they were brought from the [Portal Stone] worlds to combat real [Shadowspawn]. ([Guide])\\ %% ---- More [Category Chapters|Category.Chapters], [Wheel Chapter Icon]