An Offer Refused

Do you mean to spend the rest of your life here? There's a whole world the other side of the Dragonwall. Wine? Women? you remember these things?

Mat to Rand trying to encourage him to leave the Waste

Do you mean to spend the rest of your life here? There's a whole world the other side of the Dragonwall. Wine? Women? you remember these things?
— Mat to Rand trying to encourage him to leave the Waste

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: Aiel Waste, Cold Rocks Hold

Summary

Point of view: Rand al'Thor

Aviendha berates Rand any time his gaze falls on Isendre for ill-treating Elayne. Rand refuses to wear Aiel garb except a shoufa since he doesn't want to "pretend" to be Aiel. Eleven days have passed since the fight with Trollocs at Imre Stand. Aviendha also tries to educate him on the Waste and the Aiel, including teaching him of the dangerous gara. He cannot figure out why Aviendha dislikes him so much, since he now knows from Bair told him that she has not yet gone through the glass columns to see their past. Moiraine occasionally talks to him, mostly to try to find out what his plans are, which he won't divulge. Egwene mostly stays with the Wise Ones and finally stops wearing her hair in two braids; Rand thinks it is because she found out it is what children wear. Each evening Rand practices the sword with Lan, and spears and the Aiel's unarmed fighting style with Rhuarc.

Kadere approaches Rand repeatedly with claims of knowledge Rand could use but only if he receives guarantees of safety and protection. Natael, the gleeman, tries to get information he can use in his epic composition. After several nights of being put off by Rand, he gives up on the Jindo and goes to play for the larger Shaido camp. Moiraine and the Wise Ones check on Rand's health and whether the heat is affecting him. One day while Aviendha is travelling with the Wise Ones she channels a huge fireball. Rand realizes that Aviendha is learning to channel from the Wise Ones and that he doesn't have a teacher to teach him what he needs to learn. Mat pursues Isendre but doesn't get anywhere. Keille and Isendre trade insults and threats.

Finally, on the twelfth day they arrive at Cold Rocks Hold.

Characters

• Rand
• Aviendha
• Jeade'en
• Isendre
• Kadere
• Keille
• Jasin Natael
• Moiraine
• Egwene
• Lan
• Rhuarc
• Bair
• Aldieb
• Mist
• Amys
• Melaine
• Seana
• Mat
• Pips

Referenced

• Elayne
• Lian
• Min
• Nynaeve
• Thom

Places

• Aiel Waste
• Cold Rocks Hold

Referenced

• Rhuidean
• Tear
• Shayol Ghul
• Tar Valon