Towers of Midnight: Chapter 29
Chapter Icon: Wheel and Serpent
Point of Views: Faile, Morgase, Perrin and Elayne
Faile's Point of View:
Setting: Near and in Perrin's camp
Characters: Faile, Berelain, Alliandre, Sulin
Faile is walking with Berelain and Alliandre near Perrin's camp, along with ten Maidens. Berelain asks what they think that Perrin is planning. Neither Faile nor Alliandre answers her, instead Berelain tells them that she wants to go to the Whitecloaks and talk with them on Perrin's account. Faile says no, since Perrin has already made his decision and won't change his mind. They see a group of refugees walking away from the camp. Gateways don't work now, but when they did, ten thousand left for Cairhien through them. Berelain asks again what Perrin are going to do, and she believes that he wants something from the Whitecloaks. Faile thinks to herself that Berelain doesn't understand Perrin very well. Alliandre agrees with Berelain that the trial is not a good idea and that they should either march away, or maybe attack the Whitecloaks. Faile explains that Perrin doesn't want anyone to believe that he has done something wrong. Berelain glances in the direction of the Whitecloak camp. Alliandre notices that and starts talking about how good-looking Galad is, which gets Berelain to blush and to say that he is like a perfect thing from the Age of Legends, left for them to worship. Faile sniffs to it and says that he's passable but she prefers bearded men. They continue walking and Alliandre asks what to do about Morgase. Faile and Alliandre both feel deceived, because they thought they knew her, but Berelain defends Morgase and says that they all would have done the same in her situation. Suddenly they hear screams from the camp and then Faile's knife flies up from its sheath and toward her head. It's a bubble of evil, every weapon in the camp is attacking its owner. Sulin comes, takes Faile's knife and slams it to the ground and it stops moving. They realize that all weapons stop moving if they touch the dirt and they run to tell everyone that.
Morgase's Point of View:
Setting: The Whitecloak camp
Morgase and Galad are in Galad's tent. Galad feels bad for killing Valda when he actually had not killed Morgase, and Morgase comforts him and makes him see that Valda deserved it for other reasons. They then talk about Perrin, who Galad thinks is a Shadowspawn, but Morgase says that he is a good man. Morgase feels like a queen when she is a Galad, because for him she is still the person she was when she was queen. She ponders over what kind of Lord Captain Commander Galad will be. She asks him what he is going to do with his army and he answers that he will take them to fight in the Last Battle. She tells him that they will have to fight alongside the Aes Sedai and he says that he can work with the witches for the greater good. She thinks it is wrong that he names them witches and he tells her that they sent Elayne on dangerous missions and that he had met her outside the Tower, there in the south. He also says that he doesn't believe that all channelers of the One Power are evil, but that it is easy for them to be corrupted. He repeats that the Whitecloaks will fight alongside them, and Morgase says that they should go join the fight immidiately and forget about the trial. Galad says no and that it was Perrin who wanted to have the trial. Morgase tells him that Lini was among the people the Whitecloak captured and wonders if he actually would have executed the prisoners. He says that it was just a threat and wonders what the point of their discussion is. She says that she wants him to think and tells him the story of Tham Felmley, a man she gave a death sentence and later she discovered that he had been innocent. What she wants him to understand is that good people can do wrong. They are interrupted by a Whitecloak who comes to tell them that Perrin wants to postpone the trial because of the happenings in his camp, and Galad will consider it.
Perrin's Point of View:
Setting: Perrin's camp
Elayne's Point of View:
Setting: The Caemlyn city wall
Characters: Elayne, Birgitte, Aludra, Mat
