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! __Nynaeve__ POV

[Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] and [Naeff] hurry through [Tear|Tear (Country)]. Another bubble of evil struck. She still feels the unnatural storm to the north. He tells her another [Fade] is following them, a delusion due to his partial madness. They head to the [All Summers|Tear (City)] district, a prosperous area inside the western wall. They reach the area of the bubble of evil. An entire block has been turned into insubstantial dust including all the people inside. Anyone who was touching the area at all is dead. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] nearly crashes into a cellar when a floor falls apart. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] [Delves|Weaves#d] a corpse with [Spirit|One Power], [Air|One Power] and [Water|One Power] and finds no sign that it was ever alive. [Naeff] and [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] give the area a gust of wind and all the buildings shatter and collapse. [Naeff] gathers the dust in a compact cyclone. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] touches it with [Fire|One Power] and it disappears in a roar of flame. 

[Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] [Delves|Weaves#d] [Naeff] and finds a network of black veins with thorn-like projections in his mind. She pulls the thorns free and [Heals|Weaves#h] the wounds. When the last one comes free the network shakes then vanishes. [Naeff] is now sane and no longer sees [Fades|Fade] following him. He rushes off to tell %%green [Nelavaire Demasiellin]%% the good news. [Rand|Rand alThor] returns and finds her. [Somma] and [Kanara] are his guards. He thanks her for caring for his people. [Rand|Rand alThor] says the [Dark One|Shaitan] will do to the whole world what he did to this area. She asks him about breaking the [seals|Seals]. He explains that they must face the [Dark One|Shaitan] directly as soon as possible and she believes him. She tells him she must return to the [White Tower]. [Rand|Rand alThor] tells her that she must keep her passion like [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] did. He asks her to be by his side at [Shayol Ghul] and she agrees. He wants her in the circle with %%ot [Callandor]%%, perhaps with [Elayne|Elayne Trakand] or [Aviendha]. She [Delves|Weaves#d] him and is shocked to find the same black network as in [Naeff], but it is enormous with thousands of thorns. However, there is a white lacing coating the network.[1] It is far more than she can [Heal|Weaves#h]. She tells him that she can now [Heal|Weaves#h] madness and he is delighted. She promises to [Heal|Weaves#h] [Narishma|Jahar Narishma] and [Flinn|Damer Flinn], at least, before she leaves. She offers to try to go to the [Black Tower] but he warns her to stay away.
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! __Egwene__ POV

The clouds have returned to [Tar Valon]. Tea tastes stale and grain is spoiling. [Egwene|Egwene alVere] stands on the flat roof of the [White Tower] with [Saerin|Saerin Asnobar], [Yukiri] and [Seaine|Seaine Herimon]. She set them searching for information on [Mesaana] and defeating the [Oath Rod]. She quotes an ancient [Brown|Brown Ajah] scholar [Yasicca Cellaech]. [Seaine|Seaine Herimon] has three theories on how to defeat the [Oath Rod]. [Mesaana] may have another [Oath Rod] that she can somehow use to negate the Oaths with an inverted weave of [Spirit|One Power]. She could have used [Compulsion|Weaves#co] and the [Mirror of Mists|Weaves#mi] to have another sister swear in her place. Finally, she could have used a weave to alter her words so that what she actually swore to and what others heard are different. She orders them to keep working on it. [Saerin|Saerin Asnobar] reports that little is known about [Mesaana] herself. [Marsim of Manetheren] wrote about her. [Alrom] wrote about her schools. She was rejected as a researcher. [Elandria Borndat] wrote that she was more a direct leader than [Graendal] or [Moghedien], sort of a [Shadow|Creator] [Amyrlin|Aes Sedai]. [Lannis] wrote that she was second only to [Demandred] in anger. She was angry at herself, the other [Forsaken], the world that she was not the most important. She was an administrator who hated that position. She tried to deliver a broken [White Tower] and failed. She probably was part of [Rand|Rand alThor]'s kidnapping which also failed. Maybe also the women sent to the [Black Tower] which failed. [Mesaana] must need a great victory to regain her standing. Something like killing [Egwene|Egwene alVere]. [Gawyn|Gawyn Trakand] was mortified that she might use herself as bait, but she will have to do something to draw out [Mesaana].
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] Open speculation on what this means.
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