Mat’s visitor is the insufferable and repetitive Selene, who has visited Mat dressed in her flawless white clothes in order to a) give him a huge boner, and b) tell him all sorts of tales about how important he is. More important than anyone knows. She even implies that he might be more important than all this Dark One, Dragon Reborn, Aes Sedai business altogether. Mat hides his boner and gets very suspicious of this woman. Who is she? What is she? Why is she talking him? Is she an Aes Sedai? Is she a Darkfriend? How important could Mat possibly be? Will she suck his boner if she asks? And the like.

Selene obviously doesn’t want any of the Aes Sedai to know that she’s there, because when she hears footsteps coming down the hall she gets all weird and wraps it up very quickly and then gets the fuck out of there.

Mat takes stock of the room he’s in and tries to find his belongings, including a couple of dice cups for his gambling addiction. Suddenly, Siuan and Leane enter the room and tell him to put down his dice. He will not be leaving anytime soon. The meal he just ate? He’s going to eat five of those a day for about seventeen weeks or else he’ll starve to death! No leaving the White Tower! Hiss!

Mat is pretty obstinate, but he keeps it as polite as he can under the circumstances. Siuan does convince him that he’ll die if he leaves for a few reasons: he needs to replenish his health, he may still have the taint that might need further healing, he may have some sort of dagger-related disease that no one will even know about until it might possibly be too late. What are you gonna do, travel around the land wasting away? Are you a dummy? You were just suffering from some dark magic that killed an entire city. Sit down and eat more sandwiches.

When Mat asks if his father (“da”) came to look for him, Siuan says he had and, since they didn’t know where Mat was at the time, they sent him away from the White Tower. Now that Mat is here and alive and well, Siuan encourages him to write his father a letter. When Mat also asks about Rand’s dad, Siuan shoos Leane out of the room and then tells Mat to watch his tongue. Some topics are more dangerous than others. Mat is ignorant of which topics are dangerous and which are not, ma’am.

The discussion turns to the Horn of Valere, and Siuan tells Mat that he is the only one now that can summon the Heroes with the Horn. It will just be a normal horn to anyone else… until Mat is dead. And trust me, kiddo, there are a lot of people out there who would want to kill you. Most of all Siuan if he keeps up the lip.

When Siuan leaves, Mat goes over both Siuan’s and Selene’s stories, how there are holes in both, and how he seems to be caught in the middle of a tug-of-war session. Bah humbug!