After encountering Selene, who vanished without a trace, Egwene returns to the room to discuss with Elayne and Nynaeve. Else got away. Nynaeve says it doesn’t matter, they have a storeroom to investigate per Else’s information.

Since it’s located above and below, to the right and left of and behind and in front of the library, diagonally, the women head down the corridors in that direction using channeled balls of light to see in the dark. When they get to the storeroom, the discover the door is locked. This INFURIATES Nynaeve. Just makes her so FUCKING MAD. But it’s hard to get that mad over a locked door. Egwene touches the lock chain with Earth while Nynaeve creates a crowbar with Air to pry open the door. The door swings open easily because Egwene suspects she was able to do something with the lock…

The storeroom contains thirteen large bags of belongs, one for each of the missing Aes Sedai. There isn’t much of note within the bags, except the common thread is information that points to Tear. The girls waver on this clue, wondering if it’s real or a deliberate ruse to point them in the wrong direction, or even a deliberate ruse to make the right direction so obvious as to be discounted.

What to do next? Egwene fingers her ter’angreal and decides to give entering the Unseen World a shot…