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! __Min__ POV

[Min|Min Farshaw] and [Rand|Rand alThor] are in their rooms in the [Stone of Tear] with %%green [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin]%%, [Narishma|Jahar Narishma], %%green [Merise|Merise Haindehl]%%, [Naeff] and two [Maidens|Maidens of the Spear]. [Min|Min Farshaw] holds %%ot [Callandor]%%. She has a [viewing|viewings]:

* A glowing sword, %%ot [Callandor]%%, being gripped in a black hand. 

[Rand|Rand alThor] takes the sword and puts it in a sheath over his back. He also wears the sword he acquired in [Arad Doman]. They represent the future on the past to him.[1] [Min|Min Farshaw] fears %%ot [Callandor]%%. She thinks it has a deeper flaw than they know of and that it will be used against [Rand|Rand alThor].[2] He orders [Narishma|Jahar Narishma] to open a gateway to [Far Madding] so they can pay an overdue call on the [Borderlanders|Borderlands] there. [Rand|Rand alThor] asks [Naeff] if there is any word from the [Black Tower] and [Naeff] says no. [Rand|Rand alThor] says he cannot [Travel|Weaves#t] there and fears the worst. He shows [Naeff] how to weave a disguise and tells him to [Travel|Weaves#t] to nearby the [Black Tower] and ride in. Find [Logain|Logain Ablar][3] and those loyal to him and deliver a message. Tell them that they are not weapons, they are men.[4] He tells [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin] to be prepared to make a gateway for retreat if necessary. She says she cannot touch the [True Source] there but he notes that she is wearing a full [paralis-net|Paralis-net] which includes a Well. [Rand|Rand alThor] says he wore the original male version. When she calls him "boy" one more time he suggests that she call him [Rand|Rand alThor] Sedai. They walk through the gateway where [Maiden|Maidens of the Spear] scouts wait with horses and ride to [Far Madding]. [Rand|Rand alThor] rides [Tai'daishar]. [Rand|Rand alThor] says the city is even more ancient than the [guardian], [Aren Deshar], [Aren Mador|Essenia], [Far Madding]. The enclave of the [Incastar|Other History] were afraid of progress. [Gilgame]....[5] He has all of [Lews Therin|Lews Therin Telamon]'s memories but he tells [Min|Min Farshaw] there is a big difference. He has [Min|Min Farshaw], [Tam|Tam alThor], [Perrin|Perrin Aybara], [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara], [Mat|Matrim Cauthon], [Aviendha], [Elayne|Elayne Trakand], [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred]. [Min|Min Farshaw] wonders if the rest of the [Borderlands] are suffering like [Maradon] did. An escort meets them and brings them to the front of the army where they meet [Ethenielle|Ethenielle Cosaru Noramaga], [Paitar|Paitar Neramovni Nachiman], [Easar|Easar Togita] and [Tenobia|Tenobia si Bashere Kazadi]. [Min|Min Farshaw] has [viewings] of them:

* [Tenobia|Tenobia si Bashere Kazadi] - a spear hovering over her head, bloody, but shining in the light.
* [Ethenielle|Ethenielle Cosaru Noramaga] - white doves meaning that she will soon be wed.[6]
* [Easar|Easar Togita] and [Paitar|Paitar Neramovni Nachiman] - Swords, shields and arrows, they will fight soon.

[Ethenielle|Ethenielle Cosaru Noramaga] and a man with a sheathed sword[7] walk up to [Rand|Rand alThor]. She slaps him hard. One by one the others follow drawing blood. [Rand|Rand alThor] is angry but holds his temper and quiets those with him. [Paitar|Paitar Neramovni Nachiman] then asks how [Tellindal Tirraso] died. Upset, [Rand|Rand alThor] replies that she was a clerk who died accidentally in the fighting when [Demandred] attacked him. They finally acknowledge him as the [Dragon Reborn|Rand alThor].
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! __Cadsuane__ POV

They sit in a large tent with the rulers. Thirteen [Aes Sedai] wait outside but they do not seem to bother [Rand|Rand alThor].[8] [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin] knows some of them.[9] [Paitar|Paitar Neramovni Nachiman] says his ancestor [Reo Myershi] heard a [Foretelling|Weaves] from an [Aes Sedai]:

* I see him before you. Him, the one who lives many lives, the one who gives deaths, the one who raises mountains. He will break what he must break, but first he stands here, before our king. You will bloody him! Measure his restraint. He speaks! How was the fallen slain? [Tellindal Tirraso], murdered by his hand, the darkness that came the day after the light. You ''must'' ask, and you ''must'' know your fate. If he cannot answer then you will be lost. You will bring his end swiftly, so that the final days may have their storm. So that Light may not be consumed by he who was to have preserved it. I seem. And I weep.

[Rand|Rand alThor] tells them they came close to doom. A short time earlier he would have returned the slaps with [balefire|Weaves#b]. He says the [guardian] only blocks the [One Power],[10] which greatly puzzles [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin]. He says he will teach their [Aes Sedai] gateways if they will swear to him. He will meet the monarchs of the world tomorrow then go to [Shayol Ghul] to break the remaining [seals|Seals]. The [Borderlanders|Borderlands] can come with him to the [Last Battle|Creator] only if they swear to him. He will wait one hour for their answer.[11] Meantime he asks them to send for [Hurin] so he can apologize. One more day and it will all begin. [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin] hopes that they are ready.
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] The sword is [Justice], [Artur Hawkwing]'s sword from the past. It is not clear exactly how %%ot [Callandor]%% represents the future.
\\[#2] At this point it is not clear what this flaw might be and what it might mean.
\\[#3] [Androl|Androl Genhald] and the others in the [Black Tower] think [Logain|Logain Ablar] is with [Rand|Rand alThor]. Where is he?
\\[#4] The lesson that [Rand|Rand alThor] learned from [Cadsuane|Cadsuane Melaidhrin].
\\[#5] Gilgamesh??
\\[#6] Perhaps [Kalyan Ramsin]? ([TPoD,Prologue])
\\[#7] Her Swordbearer Lord [Baldhere]
\\[#8] So it would seem that this threat was a red herring.
\\[#9] But we still have no names and know nothing about them.
\\[#10] This seems to imply that [Rand|Rand alThor] still has access to the [True Power]. Is this correct?
\\[#11] We learn about their answer in [ToM,Epilogue].
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