Chapters 33-36 Summary

Moiraine pushes her party hard to try to keep up with Rand. Every town they pass shows signs of Rand's passage, including a town where a long dry well has suddenly started producing water, and another town completely burned to the ground.

They arrive in the town of Remen, where an Aiel is imprisoned in a cage in the town square. The Aiel are the society of warriors, who live beyond the Spine of the World and who Moiraine and Siuan Sanche told Rand are his culture of origin. There have been several recent reports of Aiel wandering the lands in small groups, and Perrin and Mat met up with one group in the previous book. The Aiel say they are looking for He Who Comes With the Dawn, a savior who will lead them out of the Waste.

Perrin, who...