To Boannda

"An open sack hides nothing, an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something."
— Lini Eltring

Book Index

0 I II III IV V VI VII
VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV

Chapters

1	Fanning the Sparks
2	Rhuidean
3	Pale Shadows
4	Twilight
5	Among the Wise Ones
6	Gateways
7	A Departure
8	Over the Border
9	A Signal
10	Figs and Mice
11	The Nine Horse Hitch
12	An Old Pipe
13	A Small Room in Sienda
14	Meetings
15	What Can Be Learned in Dreams
16	An Unexpected Offer
17	Heading West
18	A Hound of Darkness
19	Memories
20	Jangai Pass
21	The Gift of a Blade
22	Birdcalls by Night
23	"The Fifth, I Give You"
24	A Message Sent
25	Dreams of Galad
26	Sallie Daera
27	The Practice of Diffidence
28	Trapped
29	Memories of Saldaea
30	A Wager
31	The Far Snows
32	A Short Spear
33	A Question of Crimson
34	A Silver Arrow
35	Ripped Away
36	A New Name
37	Performances in Samara
38	An Old Acquaintance
39	Encounters in Samara
40	The Wheel Weaves
41	The Craft of Kin Tovere
42	Before the Arrow
43	This Place, This Day
44	The Lesser Sadness
45	After the Storm
46	Other Battle, Other Weapons
47	The Price of a Ship
48	Leavetakings
49	To Boannda
50	To Teach, and Learn
51	News Comes to Cairhien
52	Choices
53	Fading Words
54	To Caemlyn
55	The Threads Burn
56	Glowing Embers

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Setting: Samara, Aboard the Riverserpent, Tel'aran'rhiod, Boannda

Point of view: Nynaeve al'Meara

Nynaeve forces Captain Agni Neres of the Riverserpent to take all of the refugees on the docks aboard his ship. She pays him what she thinks is a reasonable fare for their passage. Nynaeve and Elayne take over the captain's tiny cabin. Elyane is upset because Neres is a smuggler, but Nynaeve points out they have used similar men in the past. Elayne blackmails Neres into throwing much of his cargo in the river to give the refugees room in the hold.

They begin making good time down the river with the sails full. Nynaeve finally accuses Elayne of channeling wind the way she learned from the Sea Folk Windfinder. Over the next days the tension between Nynaeve, Elayne, and Birgitte finally begins to fade since they can't vent on the ship with everyone watching and listening. Nynaeve heals the wounded Shienarans but does so carefully so no one knows she channeled.

Nynaeve becomes close with several women on the boat. Nicola, who lost her future husband to the prophet; Marigan, with two sons that don't speak; and Areina. A comment Nynaeve makes to Elayne makes Birgitte aware the Elayne really is the Daughter-heir of Andor. They reach Boannda the third day where most of the refugees depart. Nicola, Marigan, and Areina stay on, though. After they leave the city, Nynaeve tells Neres the next destination is Salidar. Nynaeve goes to sleep with the dream ring ter'angreal, hoping to meet Egwene in Tel'aran'rhiod, but she doesn't show up.

Elayne and Nynaeve begin going to Tel'aran'rhiod together, with Elayne using a ter'angreal taken from Liandrin's group of Black Sisters in Tear. The two gather information from the White Tower, try to learn more about Tel'aran'rhiod, and occasionally have a bit of fun. They meet Egwene and Amys, who are surprised to find both women there at the same time. Nynaeve keeps trying to ask about the messages Egwene passed to her in her dreams but Egwene keeps interrupting her to change the topic. Egwene was not supposed to do that unsupervised so she is trying to avoid the Wise Ones finding out. After the meeting ends, Elayne and Nynaeve meet Egwene in Sheriam's study, where she dresses them down for not keeping secret what they were told to keep secret. After five days of travel on the river they reach the vicinity of Salidar and everyone is rowed ashore.

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