Chapter 40, The Web Tightens Summary

Rand comes to, disoriented and in pain. He looks around and sees he is in a garden or park. The girl is climbing out of the tree she had been in. She is richly clothed and only two or three years younger than Rand. A boy drops out of the tree beside her, obviously close kin and richly dressed. The girl, Elayne, sees Rand is hurt and helps him. Gawyn, her brother, tells Rand she knows what she is doing as Elayne dresses the wound on his head, then tends to his hands and knees. As they talk, Rand is shocked to discover the Queen is their mother. He panics and wants to leave but Elayne stops him. They ask his name and he tells them without thinking, and that he is from Two Rivers.

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