A Crown of Swords: Chapter 10

Unseen Eyes

Toral Delvar

Characters: Amys, Bair, Egwene

Setting: Tel'aran'rhiod

Point of view: Egwene

Egwene enters Tel'aran'rhiod in a light sleep. She considers scaring Nicola and Areina, but thinks better of it as locating them would take too long. She warns Nynaeve and Egwene to stay away until she has sorted the matter and calls Amys, asking her to talk. Amys arrives with Bair and Melaine. She tells them she has been raised Amyrlin and that she is seen as a figurehead, to be manipulated, but she will not let that happen. She tells them she will not bring Aes Sedai to swear to Rand. Egwene realises they are keeping things from her, and that they hold Aes Sedai in contempt. She makes Amys promise not to stop Merana from talking to Rand and also not to tell him she is Amyrlin as he might try to rescue her.

They leave her and she returns to her body to dream, firstly of Gawyn, with two choices, marriage to her or not, lying ahead of him, of Mat and the illuminators, of the headsman's axe falling on her while a would be rescuer runs to her, of Logain stepping over what looks like Rand's body, only for it to fall apart when she tries to touch it, of a golden hawk linked to her, a man dying while the world rejoices and mourns, though it important he lives, and of other things.

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