Siuan the Aes Sedai Top Dog paces around her chambers looking at a box that will explode if anybody but her tries to open it, destroying its delicious contents of beef jerky. Actually, I’m not sure what it contains. They don’t specify.

Siuan was a fisherman’s daughter from Tear. She could end up poor and friendless again if things don’t go perfectly. Verin enters her chambers for an audience, which Siuan grants. Leane, the really attractive-sounding Keeper of Chronicles, is not allowed to stay as she usually is able to in these circumstances, which makes her slightly suspicious. She acquiesces nonetheless…

Verin is surprised to learn that Siuan warded the room from eavesdroppers, which she has never done before, so tell her EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING!. So where to start? OK, uh, you remember that Rand cracker? He declared himself the Dragon Reborn. Siuan is relieved; he seems like a good chap. The two false Dragons have been neutralized in the exact same way: they were in battle, there was a great flash in the sky, they were knocked unconscious off a horse, they were taken. This same thing happened in Falme, but Rand leaned into the flash and hung out with the ancient Heroes of the Ages of Legend of Kindness and Justice and Good Grooming.

No more false Dragons in the Pattern! We don’t have to worry about that anymore. Verin presents the Horn of Valere, which they carted all through the lands much to Siuan’s complete shock. No one ambushed them, though; most people wouldn’t expect four women and a sick kid in a litter to carry the shitty trumpet. But that’s not the only reason Siuan is shocked. It’s supposed to stay with Rand. Whhhhhat the fuck is it doing here at the White Tower. Verin suggests that it’s the safest place for it, and that Moiraine had nothing to do with the decision. It just kinda happened, you know?

Since Mat was the one who sounded the Horn, no one can really do much with the Horn if Mat is still alive. They’ll try Healing his dagger-related syphilis.

Verin has one last concern: the Seanchan. Siuan thinks this is a silly worry; they’re half a continent away. Verin points out that they are using the One Power as a weapon, and Siuan is taken aback. There’s nothing that can be done right now, but she’ll keep that information in her back pocket.

Siuan ends the chapter by asking Verin to tell her EVERYTHING — EVERYTHING — that the three girls said and did during their travels. I imagine this will take hours. Let’s move on to the next chapter while Verin bores her about how much nose-picking Elayne has been up to.