Homecoming

"Give yourself up? Give yourself up! Have you been planning this from the start? You have, haven't you? You utter idiot! Your brain has frozen solid, Perrin Aybara. It was nothing but muscle and hair to begin, but now it isn't even that. If the Whitecloaks are hunting you, they will hang you if you surrender to them. Why should they want you?"
— Faile to Perrin in the Winespring Inn

Book Index

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

Chapters

1	Seeds of Shadow
2	Whirlpools in the Pattern
3	Reflection
4	Strings
5	Questioners
6	Doorways
7	Playing With Fire
8	Hard Heads
9	Decisions
10	The Stone Stands
11	What Lies Hidden
12	Tanchico or the Tower
13	Rumors
14	Customs of Mayene
15	Into the Doorway
16	Leavetakings
17	Deceptions
18	Into the Ways
19	The Wavedancer
20	Winds Rising
21	Into the Heart
22	Out of the Stone
23	Beyond the Stone
24	Rhuidean
25	The Road to the Spear
26	The Dedicated
27	Within the Ways
28	To the Tower of Ghenjei
29	Homecoming
30	Beyond the Oak
31	Assurances
32	Questions to Be Asked
33	A New Weave in the Pattern
34	He Who Comes With the Dawn
35	Sharp Lessons
36	Misdirections
37	Imre Stand
38	Hidden Faces
39	A Cup of Wine
40	Hunter of Trollocs
41	Among the Tuatha'an
42	A Missing Leaf
43	Care for the Living
44	The Breaking Storm
45	The Tinker's Sword
46	Veils
47	The Truth of a Viewing
48	An Offer Refused
49	Cold Rocks Hold
50	Traps
51	Revelations in Tanchico
52	Need
53	The Price of a Departure
54	Into the Palace
55	Into the Deep
56	Goldeneyes
57	A Breaking in the Three-fold Land
58	The Traps of Rhuidean

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Setting: Westwood, Emond's Field

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Point of view: Perrin Aybara

Perrin, Gaul, Loial, Faile, Bain and Chiad spend three days travelling through the Westwood to reach Emond's Field. Perrin and Faile are still not speaking to each other, which exasperates Loial and amuses Gaul. They stop at Tam al'Thor's house and farm only to find all of the buildings burned and no one around. Faile gingerly asks Perrin who lived here, and is relieved to learn that it was Rand's family farm and not Perrin's. Perrin resolves to leave for Emond's Field very early, with Gaul and without Faile, so he can turn himself in to the Whitecloaks before she can interfere.

The two men arrive at the Winespring Inn early and without being seen. Inside, Marin al'Vere and Brandelwyn al'Vere are polishing the inn's silver and pewter and are shocked when they realize who Perrin is. Marin asks after Egwene and Perrin assures her that she is safe. They have received letters from Egwene and Nynaeve telling of their Tower training and their friends Elayne and Min. Perrin introduces Gaul who addresses Marin as roofmistress and gives her a valuable guest gift according to Aiel custom, offering to defend her roof. Bran and Marin then urge Perrin to leave the way he came immediately. The main Whitecloak camp is at Watch Hill, but patrols can be anywhere. Just as he mentions his plan to give himself up, Faile, Bain and Chiad come into the room. Faile tells Perrin he is being an idiot among other things so he tells her the reason they are after him is that he killed two Whitecloaks and they are convinced he is a Darkfriend.

Marin interrupts the argument to calm things down and Faile realizes her lack of manners. They introduce themselves and the Aiel women also give Marin guest gifts and ask to defend her roof. Bran frequently glances out the window, worried. They get settled at a table with clean hands and faces before Bran breaks the news to Perrin that his entire family has been killed. Trollocs killed his family and there are bands roaming in the Two Rivers. Padan Fain led the Whitecloaks who burned Tam's farm and also the Cauthons'. Perrin tells them that Fain is a Darkfriend by his own admission. Haral Luhhan and Alsbet Luhhan and Natti Cauthon as well as some of their children have been arrested by the Whitecloaks. Fortunately, Abell Cauthon escaped when Tam was able to warn him. Marin points out that they currently need the Whitecloaks to protect them from the Trollocs, but the Maidens scoff at the safety provided by Whitecloaks and point out that they can defend themselves. Bran says that they are simple farmers and that Lord Luc, a Hunter of the Horn, has talked of organizing the village to fight the Trollocs, but nothing has been done yet. Finally Faile comes to Perrin, holds him and tells him to grieve over his dead family, and he does.

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