Chapters 27-32 Summary

Egwene dons the stone ring for the first time as she sleeps with Nynaeve and Elayne watching over her. She quickly finds that in Tel'Aran'Rhiod, she can channel the One Power. She travels about rather clumsily at first, visiting the dreams of both Perrin and Rand, before finding herself in the Heart of the Stone. A woman named Silvie appears and warns Egwene that it is dangerous for her to be there, because "he" might see her.

The three women decide they have no choice but to go to Tear. Anticipating that her mother, Queen Morgase of Caemlyn, would send the Andorean army against Tar Valon if she disappears again, Elayne proposes that she send a letter to Caemlyn warning her mother that she has to leave the tower again for her studies. They want to enlist Mat to carry the...