Chapters 54-56 Summary

While on the rooftops near the Stone of Tear, Mat is ambushed by Aiel, led by Rhuarc, who say they believe that He Who Comes With the Dawn is in the city and that Aiel prophecy says that his coming will be heralded by the fall of the Stone, which has never before been successfully stormed. They let Mat go when he promises them that he does not intend to give them away. Juilin Sandar then arrives and, after finding out that Mat is a friend of Nynaeve, Egwene, and Elayne, tells Mat that he is eager to help him free the women, to atone for his, albeit forced, betrayal of them to Liandrin. Mat uses the fireworks that Aludra gave him to blow a hole in the side of the fortress, and Juilin and he leap through and fight off...