Chapters 35-37 Summary

Ingtar's party arrives at stedding Tsofu and asks for permission to see the elders. Steddings are the wooded sanctuaries of the Ogier, and the One Power does not work inside them. On the way through the stedding, they encounter three Aiel women who are also traveling through. Like the Aiel Perrin, Mat, and Ingtar met in Kinslayer's Dagger, the women are searching for He Who Comes with the Dawn. Rand's friends fill him in on their meeting with the Aiel Urien, but Rand does not yet associate himself with the Aiel savior.

The elders of the stedding agree to allow them to use the Waygate. Loial, who was fearful the elders would stop him from accompanying his friends because of his young age, is allowed to go. However, Rand is forced to swear an oath to return Loial safely to his...