Difference between revisions of "The Eye of the World: Chapter 10"

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Author: Dinn da Noor

Chapter Icon: A Staff

Point of View: Rand

Setting: Emond's Field andNorth Road.

Characters: Mat, Perrin, Rand, Lan, Moiraine, Egwene, Thom, various Emond's Fielders.

Rand, Mat and Lan go to the stables where they find Perrin waiting for them. While Lan examines the horses, the youths talk about the weapons they have: Rand's sword, Perrin's axe and Mat's bow.

Rand tells them that he talked to Tam about the journey when Moiraine enters the stables. She gives Rand a sharp look, but says, "what is done is already woven in the Pattern".

When Lan suggests that they leave right at the moment, Egwene walks in and says that they won't leave without her. She had spotted Mat and Perrin sneaking around like "bull calves pretending to be foxes" and when she put that together with Lan buying more horses, she could only see one answer. When the boys try to get her to change her mind and reminds her about the trollocs, she asks them to spare her those "nonsensical tales". Moiraine decides that she may come with them, and after a discussion with Lan, he agrees as well. The Warder tells her that she can "ride the gleeman's horse", when suddenly Thom's voice comes from the hayloft saying that it "will not be possible". They let him come with them after some discussion with him.

When they've mounted their horses, the Warder talks about how much better it would be if there were wolves there. The villagers gets shocked and wonders how he can want wolves, so he explains that wolves doesn't like trollocs and trollocs doesn't like wolves. Therefore they could be sure that there were no trollocs waiting for them if they'd heard wolves.

They ride out of the stables, but when they've just about to leave the stable yard, Lan stops them.

The watch, put together by a dozen men from the village and the surrounding farms, armed with spears and wood axes, some armored with helmets or pieces of armour that had lain on attics for generations.

After they've passed, Lan remarks that two Dha'vol trollocs would have them all for breakfast, but at least they have eyes and ears. The party rides over the Winespring Water onto the far bank, and stops from time to time by Lan's signal, each time a patrol passes.

When they're on the North Road and out of the village, Rand suddenly stops and looks at a creature as big as a man with wings as a bat. Lan tells them that it's a Draghkar, and Moiraine says that if the Trollocs have a Draghkar at command they will soon know where they are.

The villagers asks what a Draghkar is, and Thom explains that "in the war that ended the Age of Legends, worse than Trollocs and Halfmen were created". Before they get a chance to ask him more questions, Lan tells them that they shall continue down the North Road and follow his lead "for their lives".

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