A Message Out of the Shadow

"That bloody garden wall again. It should be built three times so high."
   — Martyn Tallanvor upon encountering Mat in the palace

For other chapters that have "message" in the title, see Message. For other uses of the word "shadow," see Shadow.

Book Index
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Chapters
Fortress of the Light 1 Waiting 2 Saidin 3 News from the Plain 4 Shadows Sleeping 5 Nightmares Walking 6 The Hunt Begins 7 The Way Out of the Mountains 8 Jarra 9 Wolf Dreams 10 Secrets 11 Tar Valon 12 The Amyrlin Seat 13 Punishments 14 The Bite of the Thorns 15 The Gray Man 16 Hunters Three 17 The Red Sister 18 Healing 19 Awakening 20 Visitations 21 A World of Dreams 22 The Price of the Ring 23 Sealed 24 Scouting and Discoveries 25 Questions 26 Behind a Lock 27 Tel'aran'rhiod 28 A Way Out 29 A Trap to Spring 30 The First Toss 31 The Woman of Tanchico 32 The First Ship 33 Within the Weave 34 A Different Dance 35 The Falcon 36 Daughter of the Night 37 Fires in Cairhien 38 Maidens of the Spear 39 Threads in the Pattern 40 A Hero in the Night 41 A Hunter's Oath 42 Easing the Badger 43 Shadowbrothers 44 Hunted 45 Caemlyn 46 A Message Out of the Shadow 47 To Race the Shadow 48 Following the Craft 49 A Storm in Tear 50 The Hammer 51 Bait for the Net 52 In Search of a Remedy 53 A Flow of the Spirit 54 Into the Stone 55 What Is Written in Prophecy 56 People of the Dragon

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Setting: Caemlyn

Summary

Point of view: Matrim Cauthon

Mat decides to try again to get into the palace and to deliver the letter from Elayne to Morgase. He climbs up the wall that Rand used when he first met Elayne. Mat drops down into the palace gardens, where he avoids the guards. Mat hears a man with a commanding voice talking about plots. The man tells Comar to go to Tear and quietly kill Elayne and also kill the other two which Mat realizes must be Egwene and Nynaeve. Mat wonders again what the three women are up to, going to Tear. Mat peeks through the window and sees a man muttering to himself, which must be Comar.

Tallanvor sees Mat and almost draws his blade. Mat manages to tell him he has a letter from Elayne, showing the seal. Tallanvor wants to deliver the letter but Mat tells him he promised to deliver the letter to Morgase himself. On the way to Morgase, Mat ponders on what his reward will be when he tells Morgase of the plot against her daughter. When Mat gives the letter to Morgase, Gaebril ask to see the letter. Mat realizes Gaebril is the voice he heard ordering Comar to kill Elayne so he can't reveal the plot. Gaebril reads that Elayne is out of the Tower again on a service for the Amyrlin Seat and questions Mat about it. Mat claims to be Thom Grinwell and says he knows nothing about it, as he was only visiting his sister Else. Gaebril considers putting Mat to the question, but Morgase disagrees and Gaebril lets it go. Morgase tells Mat to tell Elayne that she will not remove Elayne from the Tower prematurely after all as she had previously decided that in anger. Mat acknowledges this but doubts he will see Elayne again as he will not return to Tar Valon. Gaebril accepts Mat's tale and dismisses him with ten gold marks. Gaebril then starts talking to Morgase about claiming the Sun Throne of Cairhien and Tallanvor leads Mat away.

Characters

• Mat
• Rahvin - as Gaebril
• Comar
• Morgase
• Tallanvor

Referenced

• Rand
• Perrin
• Tam
• Elayne
• Egwene
• Nynaeve
• Elber
• Siuan - as Amyrlin
• Galad
• Else Grinwell
• Sheriam
• Taringail Damodred

Places

• Caemlyn

Referenced

• Sand Hills
• Mountains of Mist
• Emond's Field
• Tear
• Aringill
• Tar Valon
• Andor
• Comfrey
• Baerlon