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| Setting: Chachin |
Summary[]
- Point of view: Lan Mandragoran
Chachin
During their last two nights of traveling, Alys sets fleas and blackflies onto Lan. He is literally itching to get rid of her. At around noon, the party crosses the Bridge of Sunrise and into Chachin. Happy to be rid of the Aes Sedai, he gallops Cat Dancer into the city with Ryne and Bukama following him. They head to the Aesdaishar Palace. It is adorned with banners of a prancing red horse, the sign of Kandor. At the gates of the palace, a dozen guards block their way. Lan introduces himself and is then welcomed by an old friend, Jurad Shiman, who says Tai'shar Malkier. Mistress Romera, the shatayan, escorts them to their rooms. While his companions get small rooms, Lan gets an apartment with three rooms, two serving women (Anya and Esne), and an errand boy (Bulen). Anya tells Lan that Queen Ethenielle is not in Chachin - she has traveled south - but her Prince Consort Brys is present at the palace. She says that Lady Edeyn Arrel is also there. Just on cue, he receives a letter from her calling him. However, he does not want to meet with her in private because she is his carneira.
He knows he will soon have to deal with Edeyn so he assumes the ko'di to calm himself. Edeyn summons him again but he says that he is not yet recovered from his journey. Later, he is summoned by Brys. They are good, old friends, as they have saved each others' lives numerous times in the Blight. In the meeting hall there are quite a few men wearing hadori and a few women bearing the ki'sain. This fact warms Lan's heart. Brys' and Ethenielle's second, young son, Diryk, is very lucky; he fell off a balcony and lived. The boy peppers Lan with questions about the outside world before his father sends him away to his tutor, Mistress Tuval.
Edeyn is also at the meeting hall and surprisingly she kneels to pledge fealty to Lan as King of Malkier. Lan says there is no King of Malkier, but Edeyn points out that the majority of Malkier's surviving Great Lords are present and could name him king immediately. Brys rescues Lan from this and they go to a private balcony for a long talk. They discuss the Aiel War and rumors of a man who can channel. After their talk, Lan returns to his rooms to find Edeyn present. She has plans for him to marry her seventeen-year-old daughter Iselle, which is certainly against custom but Lan has no choice. Because he has no living female relatives, his carneira has the right to arrange his marriage.
Characters[]
- Alys
- Lan Mandragoran
- Ryne Venamar
- Bukama Marenellin
- Cat Dancer (animal)
- Jurad Shiman
- Mistress Romera
- Anya
- Esne
- Bulen
- Brys
- Edeyn Arrel
- Diryk
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