Chapters 22-23 Summary

Sheriam takes Egwene to the trial she must face to be raised to Accepted. Novices who wish to become Accepted must walk through a ter'angreal containing three stone arches. Each arch will present the novice with a vision of what was, what is, and what will be. The visions test the novice's commitment to become Aes Sedai. Sheriam tells her to watch for the exit, which will appear only once in each vision.

Before Egwene goes into the ter'angreal, Alanna, one of the Aes Sedai monitoring the arches, says that there is a strange resonance in the flows of the One Power around the arch. The resonance disappears and Egwene enters. In the first vision, Rand and she are married and she is the Wisdom, or wise woman, of Emond's Field, their home town. She is forced to leave the vision...