River Road

Ashore in Tear after too many seasick days on the Darter, Nynaeve steers the others away from the inns, down an alley to a house with herbs in its windows.

With a Maule thief-catcher hired to find thirteen women, Egwene takes the stone ring to bed that night and goes looking for the Heart of the Stone.

Searching Tear's inns through a stormy night, Mat follows a whim into the Golden Cup and sits down to the dice.

Ferried into Tear and lodged at the Star, Perrin follows a hammer's ring to the smithy next door, and after dark hears Moiraine name who waits in the Stone.

Back from haggling over mutton in the Maule's mud, Nynaeve all but runs down Juilin Sandar at a corner, and he has news of the thirteen.

With Thom's cough worse by the day, Mat half carries him through the Maule's mud to a Wise Woman's house he walked past on his first night in Tear.

Back from the forge at dusk, Perrin and Faile meet Moiraine and Lan at the Star's door, and Faile runs upstairs ahead of them to fetch Loial.

Crouched on a rooftop across from the Stone with his fireworks bundled on his back, Mat is choosing a way in when veiled spears find him in the dark.

Waking bruised and shielded in a cell beneath the Stone, with a Black sister on guard outside the door, Egwene resolves to try the World of Dreams once more.

Reaching the Heart at last, Rand finds the crystal sword turning where his dreams showed it, and a white-haired man in a striped coat waiting among the columns.

While Egwene searches a dream of the cells beneath the Stone, Mat and Juilin come down to the waking ones, past a room hung with whips and irons.

As Tear wakes and looks up at the Stone, Moiraine, the women, Mat and an Aiel chief meet in the High Lords' council room to weigh what the night has won.