Chachin Road

The River Queen reaches the island city, and Egwene and Nynaeve climb from the docks toward the White Tower.

Deep beneath the Tower, Nynaeve must pass through three silver arches to be raised to Accepted.

On her first day as a novice, Egwene finds a friend in Andor's Daughter-Heir and an old acquaintance from Baerlon.

A Red sister comes to Egwene's room with word that the boys from home are in danger, and a way to reach them.

Slipping out of the Tower with Elayne and Min, they follow Liandrin to a fenced Waygate in the Ogier grove and into the Ways.

After a winter's ride from Toman Head with Mat dying in a litter, the party is in sight of Tar Valon's towers when a band of Whitecloaks gallops up to bar the road.

Verin leads the party through Darein and over the great bridge to a side gate of the Tower, where the Mistress of Novices is waiting for her runaways.

Siuan Sanche sends even her Keeper out of the study to hear, alone, what Verin has carried back from Falme.

Kept back after Elayne is sent off, Egwene and Nynaeve hear what the Amyrlin means to do about Liandrin and the twelve who fled with her, and why she needs the two of them.

Climbing back up to the empty novices' galleries after the audience, Egwene and Nynaeve do not know someone is watching them from across the open well.

Deep beneath the Tower, the Amyrlin and her sisters gather around Mat with one of the Tower's strongest sa'angreal, while Egwene, Nynaeve and Elayne watch from the wall.

Still weak and set on slipping away, Mat has two callers that night, a beautiful stranger in white and then the Amyrlin herself.

Called late at night to Verin's cluttered rooms above the library, Egwene hears about a world that lies inside dreams, and leaves with something she must keep hidden.

Caught in a corridor with the stone ring still in her pouch, Egwene learns she is to pass through the three silver arches tonight, and is hurried deep beneath the Tower.

Scouting the Tower grounds for a way off the island, Mat wanders into the Warders' practice yard just as Gawyn and Galad break from their drill.

While the three are going over Verin's lists in Nynaeve's room yet again, a novice appears in the doorway with a message, and Egwene runs after her.

Acting on the message, the three slip in by a labourers' door beneath the library and go two levels down, to a storeroom door that someone has lately chained shut.

With the stone ring on a cord round her neck, and Nynaeve and Elayne keeping watch by her bed in the dark, Egwene goes to sleep looking for answers about the Black Ajah.

Nynaeve, Egwene and Elayne turn up in Mat's room after breakfast, suspiciously cheerful, with something they want him to do.

When the Amyrlin storms through the Tower kitchens in a temper, Nynaeve, sweating at the roasting spit, at last gets the quiet word with her she has been waiting for.

Stopping at an inn to catch his breath after a long night, Mat finds that the harper holding the common room from a tabletop is an old friend, in a mood he has never seen him in.