Egwene’s been scrubbing pots and floors and tables for about 61 straight hours and her poor little hands hurt too much, oh no. Following her chores, she makes her way to Verin’s quarters after being summoned by the Brown Ajah herself.

Verin lives above the library down some corridors that barely anyone travels through. Her room is filled with papers, books, oddities, lit candles that threaten to burn down the White Tower, and an owl. Verin is absent-mindedly perusing a text that might be the only copy of its kind, something she’s been looking at for forty years without being able to assign any meaning toward (so it’s likely very important; too bad I’m forgetting about it immediately).

THIS IS NOT WHAT SHE SUMMONED EGWENE FOR, THOUGH. The Aes Sedai presents to the young woman a stack of information about Liandrin, the women who went with her, and the ter’angreal that they stole from the chambers. Verin deems it incredibly useless, but maybe Egwene can figure something out from the rubbish.

THIS IS NOT WHAT SHE REALLY SUMMONDED EGWENE FOR, THOUGH! All this talk of Egwene being a possible Dreamer had piqued Verin’s curiosity. There hasn’t been a Dreamer among the Aes Sedai since Corianin Nedeal from almost 500 years ago! And she barely was one anyway, matter of fact. Just a loony basket case space cadet slut, honestly.

Verin explains the ideas of alternate worlds and how both the Creator and the Dark One inhabit each one simulataneously. A third constant is the Unseen World — Tel’aran’rhiod — which either lies in all worlds simulatneously OR surrounds all the worlds completely. Some people are known to enter it by accident, but a Dreamer can enter the Unseen World deliberately. Verin gives Egwene a ring that used to belong to Corianin Nedeal. It is described as harder than steel and denser than lead. It’s a ter’angreal that the former Dreamer had for most of her life, and now it’s Egwene’s. Take it and be grateful. Verin was studying it for a long time but then she got really, really bored of it.

Oh yeah, and the Unseen World isn’t like a dream. Whatever happens there actually happened. You can get hurt there or die there, so have fun!

Verin shoos Egwene away and returns to studying her Burger King receipts. She also has Corianin Nedeal’s old notes. She muses over burning them. She muses over giving them to Egwene. In the end she decides to hang onto them and see what happens.