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The light of saidar sprang up around the thirteen sisters near the Sitters, around all of theether, and a thick slash of silver appeared in the ateway ten paces tall and a hundred wide Falling snow drifted through fro the soldiers, and the first ar snow beyond the gateas too thick to see far, yet Egwene i Walls of Tar Valon and the White Tower itself
"It has begun, Mother," Sheriareed And the Light willing, soon Elaida would fall She was supposed to wait until Bryne said sufficient of his soldiers were through, but she could not stop herself Digging her heels into Daishar’s flanks, she rode through into the falling snow, onto the plain where Dragonainst a white sky
Chapter 31
(Serpent and Wheel)
After
Winter winds and winter snows slowed the passage of trade across lands where they did not end it until spring, and for every three pigeons sent by merchants, two fell to hawks or weather, but where ice did not cover the rivers, ships still sailed, and rus A thousand rurew in snow and ice as in fertile soil
At Tar Valon, soreat armies had clashed, and the streets ran with blood, and rebel Aes Sedai had stuck the head of Elaida a’Roihan on a pike No; Elaida had closed her hand, and those who survived aroveled at Elaida’s feet There had been no rebels, no division of the White Tower It was the Black Tower that had been broken, by Aes Sedai designs and Aes Sedai power, and Asha’man hunted Asha’man across the nations The White Tower had shattered the Sun Palace in Cairhien, and the Dragon Reborn himself was bound now to the Amyrlin Seat, her puppet and her tool Some tales said Aes Sedai had been bound to him, bound to the Asha’man, yet few believed that, and those feere ridiculed
Artur Haing’s ardead e all before theon Reborn from Altara in defeat The Seanchan had come to serve hi their aron Reborn away, to kneel before their Eon Reborn was dead, and there was as , as many tears as cries of joy
Across the nations the stories spread like spiderweb laid upon spiderweb, andthey knew truth They planned, and the Pattern absorbed their plans, weaving toward the future for