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! __Elayne__ POV

[Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] and [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] enter the room where [Egwene|Egwene alVere], [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] and [Aviendha] are questioning [Amico|Amico Nagoyin] and [Joiya|Joiya Byir]. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] is furious about [Rand|Rand alThor], but will not discuss it in front of the [Black Ajah]. She says she has made arrangements for them to be shipped to the [White Tower] in four days. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] calls in the guards to escort them back to their cells. There are twenty men guarding them. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] is angry with [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] for interrupting their questioning. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] then chides them for not deciding what they should do. [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] is about to cry because she learned that [Berelain|Berelain sur Paendrag] was in [Rand|Rand alThor]'s rooms. She blurts it out to [Egwene|Egwene alVere] and [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara]. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] looks peeved and says she would not have told [Egwene|Egwene alVere]. She still thinks [Egwene|Egwene alVere] loves [Rand|Rand alThor]. [Egwene|Egwene alVere] hugs [Elayne|Elayne Trakand], then asks [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] if she has ever been in love. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] tells them, "I could wager I know the face of the man I will marry better than either of you knows that of your future husband."[1] She then tells [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] it will definitely not be [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran]. 

Changing the subject, [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] tells them that [Careen] summoned them to [Rand|Rand alThor] and [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] relates what happened. [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] just got a glimpse of the mess through the door. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] tells them she is angry with [Rand|Rand alThor] because he refuses to act. She wants him to move against [Illian|Illian (Country)] and [Sammael]. The girls are aghast, but [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] is the first to realize that war is inevitable. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] says that [Rand|Rand alThor] spends all his time reading the [Prophecies of the Dragon|Karaethon Prophecies]. There is one passage that she thinks should point him to [Illian|Illian (Country)]:

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''"Power of the Shadow made human flesh,\\
wakened to turmoil, strife, and ruin. \\
The Reborn One, marked and bleeding, \\
dances the sword in dreams and mist, \\
chains the Shadowsworn to his will, \\
from the city, lost and forsaken, \\
leads the spears to war once more, \\
breaks the spears and makes them see, \\
truth long hidden in the ancient dream."''[2]
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She tells them she is considering using a %%ot [ter'angreal|Angreal]%% in the Great Holding, a cache of [One Power] related items the [Tairens|Tear (Country)] collected. It is a [twisted red doorway|Twisted Red Doorway]. Through the doorway one can gain true answers to three questions. [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] is ready to step through and ask whether [Amico|Amico Nagoyin] or [Joiya|Joiya Byir] is telling the truth and to ask where [Liandrin] went. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] tells them that questions regarding the Shadow can lead to madness or death. One can only use it once and one must ask all three questions. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] asks how she knows all this and [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] replies that the [twisted red doorway|Twisted Red Doorway] used to be owned by [Mayene]. They allowed [Aes Sedai] to study it. Three hundred years ago the First of [Mayene], [Halvar], gave it to the High Lords in return for accepting a raise in the price of oil. 

[Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] suggests they go to [Tanchico].[3] She says [Mazrim Taim] is more than they could handle and she already sent three messages to [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] about that problem.[4] [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] goes off to bed. [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] recalls [Min|Min Farshaw]'s jokes about sharing [Rand|Rand alThor]. [Egwene|Egwene alVere] suggests the two of them going to [Rand|Rand alThor] to tell him how they feel. [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] worries about what her mother will say about [Rand|Rand alThor] and her. [Egwene|Egwene alVere] points out what [Mat|Matrim Cauthon] told them about [Morgase|Morgase Trakand] and [Gaebril|Rahvin], but [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] does not believe it. The three of them console each other.
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] Is this just a snide comment or is it some knowledge from [Min|Min Farshaw]'s [viewing|viewings]?\\
[#2] From [Rhuidean] he will lead the [Aiel] to war and reveal their true past.\\
[#3] She really thinks it is less likely to be true and wants them out of the way and safe. ([TSR,Ch21])\\
[#4] Her messages are intercepted. [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] never receives them. ([TSR,Ch17], [TSR,Ch47])
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