Mat hoards cheese, bread, and fruit in order to prepare for his trip to Caemlyn. Mat tells Anaiya Sedai that he wants to check out the city, but Anaiya tells him good luck getting past the guards, bozo. Mat packs up, pretends he’s trying to leave to see the city, and then leaves to see the city! He wants to hit up a few inns by the harbor to make some coin and chat with the local folk besides. He plans to only play for an hour… until he wins every single toss of the dice. Impossibly. Lucky lucky.

He traps himself in a fevered frenzy, playing for hours and stuffing his pockets making sure not to piss off the wrong person. In one inn, when he throws six kings in a row, a large man calls it the “Dark One’s luck”. This pisses Mat off to no end! He slams the man against the wall and is like “I ain’t no Darkfriend, girl”. He draws a lot of unwanted attention like he always fucking does. Mat’s a spaz.

Mat leaves and tries to figure out his situation. He’s been really lucky ever since he stole that dagger! Funny coincidence, eh? Maybe it’s just some Aes Sedai trick. Who knows? The important thing is that someone might be following him and he needs to get away before his legs get broken. He hides in an alley from two men who think they lost him, and they turn around. While Mat decides to leap around the rooftops like Batman, a man OUT OF NOWHERE tries to stab him in the throat. Not today! After a struggle, Mat trips the guy and they both fall down to the street. Mat lands on top of him, cushioning his fall, and discovers the knife through his chest. Lucked out again! But this guy, this guy… he came out of nowhere. And he looks so nondescript… almost soulless…

OH WELL! Deciding that Mat doesn’t want to stick around too close to a corpse in the middle of the street, Mat ducks around until he finds an inn called “The Woman of Tanchico”.

THAT’S THE NAME OF THE NEXT CHAPTER, YOU GUYS. I hope the woman is hot.