Chapters 5 through 10 Summary

Chapter 5 - Mat is in a town called Maerone with his six-thousand-strong Band of the Red Hand. While on his usual rounds among his men, he breaks up a fight instigated by an orphan peasant boy named Olver. Mat instructs his men to get the boy fed and bathed and find someone to take care of him. At the end of the night, Mat instructs the leaders of his Band to prepare to move south for Tear, part of a larger war strategy put together by himself, Rand, and Bashere. Mat's movements will surely be noticed by their enemy Sammael in Illian, and that's the point.

Chapter 6 - Forsaken Sammael visits Forsaken Graendal in her lavish estate. Graendal relates to Sammael a meeting between several of the Forsaken, including Demandred stating the Dark One's orders. But Sammael finds the driblets of...