[{Table style='width:100%' | [{Image src='Chapter Icons/btar_lft.gif' link='Wiki.jsp?page=TGH,Ch7'}] | %%(display:block; text-align:center;) [{Image src='Chapter Icons/tar_valon_bw.gif' align='center' link='Wiki.jsp?page=Category Tar Valon Icon'}] ''Leavetakings'' %% | [{Image src='Chapter Icons/btar_rgt.gif' link='Wiki.jsp?page=TGH,Ch9' align='right'}] }] %%tabs ! __Rand__ POV [Rand|Rand alThor] arrives at the outer courtyard of [Fal Dara] keep where the two parties prepare to leave. He passes the [Amyrlin|Aes Sedai]'s party and sees [Aldieb] and [Mandarb] saddled, but [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] and [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran] are not in sight. [Rand|Rand alThor] joins [Ingtar|Ingtar Shinowa]'s group and mounts [Red|Red]. Some of the other men with [Ingtar|Ingtar Shinowa] are [Uno|Uno Nomesta], [Ragan] and [Masema|Masema Dagar].[1] [Loial] joins [Rand|Rand alThor] on his own horse, then [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] and [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] ride up. They are annoyed at [Rand|Rand alThor]'s fancy coat, but all of his plain ones disappeared. [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran] approaches [Rand|Rand alThor] and [Loial] and asks for a moment alone with [Rand|Rand alThor]. He tells [Rand|Rand alThor] about [Sheathing the Sword|Warders]. [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] enters the courtyard with [Leane|Leane Sharif] and [Agelmar|Agelmar Jagad]. He tries to convince her to stay, to no avail. He tells her a bard is coming from [Mos Shirare] and King [Easar|Easar Togita] is coming from [Fal Moran]. At [Siuan|Siuan Sanche]'s command, a [Warder|Warders] gallops away from [Fal Dara]. [Loial] says that he heard that she was sending someone to [Arad Doman] to learn about the trouble on the [Almoth Plain].[2] [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] approaches with [Leane|Leane Sharif] and [Agelmar|Agelmar Jagad]. She talks to [Ingtar|Ingtar Shinowa] and [Loial] wishing them well in their quest to retrieve the [Horn|Horn of Valere]. She refers to [Loial] as [Kiseran|Compleat], Builder in the [Old Tongue]. [Rand|Rand alThor] feels watched again. As [Red] dances, an arrow narrowly misses [Rand|Rand alThor], scratches [Siuan|Siuan Sanche], and embeds itself in a man standing behind [Siuan|Siuan Sanche].[3] [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] and [Rand|Rand alThor] both realize the arrow was meant for [Rand|Rand alThor]. [Leane|Leane Sharif] tries to [Heal|Weaves] the wounded man, but he is already dead. [Agelmar|Agelmar Jagad] is mortified and apologizes profusely. [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] gives [Ingtar|Ingtar Shinowa] and his men another pep talk, then the [Shienarans|Shienar][1] ride off with [Rand|Rand alThor], [Mat|Matrim Cauthon], [Perrin|Perrin Aybara] and [Loial] in search of the [Horn of Valere] and the [ruby dagger|Ruby Dagger]. [Rand|Rand alThor] joins [Ingtar|Ingtar Shinowa]. [Ingtar|Ingtar Shinowa] tells him that [Changu] and [Nidao] are gone. They must be [Darkfriends], yet a month ago they saved [Agelmar|Agelmar Jagad] at [Tarwin's Gap|Tarwins Gap]. He then introduces [Rand|Rand alThor] to [Hurin]. [Hurin] is a sniffer; he can smell and track violence. His job is to track criminals. The king also has a sniffer in [Fal Moran] and there is another in [Ankor Dail]. He has tracked criminals as far as [Maradon] and [Cairhien|Cairhien (City)]. A [Brown Ajah] sister once held him in [Cairhien|Cairhien (City)] for a month trying to figure out how his talent works. [Hurin] says he can smell men, [Trollocs], [Fades|Fade] and something worse.[4] [Ingtar|Ingtar Shinowa] expects the trail to go north, but [Hurin] says it is south. Surprised, [Ingtar|Ingtar Shinowa] notes that the [Amyrlin|Aes Sedai] was right.[5] They ride south with [Hurin] leading the way. ! __Bayle Domon__ POV [Bayle Domon] walks through [Illian|Illian (City)]. It is the [Feast of Teven|Calendar]. The [Great Hunt of the Horn|Horn of Valere] will begin in a few days and there are gleemen and [Illuminators|Guild of Illuminators] here for the festivities. He crosses the Bridge of Flowers into the port district called the Perfumed Quarter and enters an inn called [Easing the Badger]. [Nieda Sidoro] is the innkeeper. [Nieda|Nieda Sidoro]'s nephew [Bili] is the bouncer. [Domon|Bayle Domon] sits down at a table and three [Cairhienin|Cairhien (Country)] men approach him. Their coats are striped in silver, scarlet and gold.[6] They want him to bring someone from [Mayene] to [Illian|Illian (City)]. They offer a thousand marks, with two hundred up front. They give him the money and a sealed parchment and then leave. There are [Whitecloaks|Children of the Light] in town as well. [Darkfriends] have been after him since before he left [Maradon]. [Yarin Maeldan] enters the inn and tells [Domon|Bayle Domon] that [Carn], a crewmember, was murdered and that [Yarin]'s room at the [Silver Dolphin] was broken into. They gather the crew, go back to the ''[Spray]'' and set sail. [Domon|Bayle Domon] opens the parchment and finds out that it is a death warrant signed by King [Galldrian] of [Cairhien|Cairhien (Country)]. All of his possessions are to be seized as well. He puts the parchment in his secret compartment with the other objects he acquired in [Maradon], a light stick, a fossil skull, an ivory carving of a man holding a sword, and a black and white disk.[7] The man who sold him the carving told him that holding it made him feel warm, but it does nothing for [Domon|Bayle Domon].[8] [Domon|Bayle Domon] suspects that it is the disk that they want, although he is not sure what it is. He bought it from a shopkeeper in [Maradon]. He tells [Yarin] to head in the opposite direction to [Toman Head]. %% %collapsebox-closed ! Notes (Possible Spoilers) [#1] Others include [Masuto] ([TDR,Ch2]), [Bartu], [Chaena], [Nangu] and [Nengar] ([TFoH,Ch38]), [Mendao|mendao], [Sakaru] and [Sar|sar] ([TFoH,Ch40]).\\ [#2] Because of the reference to [Toman's Head|Toman Head] in the [Dark Prophecy]. ([TGH,Ch7]) Presumably the [Warder|Warders] is [Alric].\\ [#3] The archer was a [Gray Man] let in by [Ingtar|Ingtar Shinowa]. ([TGH,Ch46])\\ [#4] [Fain|Padan Fain]\\ [#5] Does this mean [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] told [Ingtar|Ingtar Shinowa] the trail lay south? If so, how could she know?\\ [#6] Are these the colors of House [Riatin|Cairhien (Country)] or are they the red, yellow and silver of House [Saighan|Cairhien (Country)]?\\ [#7] One of the [seals|Seals] to the [Dark One|Shaitan]'s prison.\\ [#8] Could the ivory carving be a %%ot [ter'angreal|Angreal]%% or a male %%ot [angreal|Angreal]%%? %% ---- More [Category Chapters], [Category xyz Icon]