Chapters 6-9 Summary

The next morning, they awake to find Rand has gone, leaving a note in which he writes that the Dark One is hunting him and he doesn't want to endanger those around him. After taking a quick survey of everyone in the camp, Moiraine determines that they all have been dreaming about Callandor, the sword that cannot be touched, which is kept in the Stone of Tear, a great fortress in the coastal city of Tear, and which is prophesied to be retrievable only by the Dragon Reborn. Moiraine belives Rand's status as a powerful ta'veren, a powerful thread in the pattern of the Wheel of Time that pulls other threads toward it, makes it so he can project his dreams on those around him without knowing it. She reasons that Rand will head for Tear.

Moiraine sends Min to Tar...