Having defeated Aginor by overcooking him like your drunk uncle’s Thanksgiving turkey, a woozy Rand tries to piece together everything that just happened. He’s not very successful. He thinks he just destroyed the Dark One! Delirious!

He makes his way back from whence he came, where the Green Man died of Burning Man Syndrome. The women wait for him, with Moiraine exhausted after keeping Aginor at bay. After mentioning that the Dark One’s prison has weakened, Rand is about to tell her that he’s dead. She doesn’t readily believe this to be true, so it’s probably not. She knows a lot. She’s like Hermione without the shitty nerd friends. Well… ok, never mind. Rand persists, and then realizes that he may have just channeled the One Power, oh no, oh god. Men who do that go insane, oh no.

Moiraine has has an inkling about this and requests Rand to tell her everything about everything. It sounds like he was reaching out for the saidin, and that’s the one thing Moiraine can’t teach about being an Aes Sedai. There hasn’t been a male Aes Sedai in 3,000 years!

Anyway, the boys are still in the Eye of the World cave, where the Eye of the World has vanished. Rand isn’t going to tell them about any of this, but Lan already knows. He knows a lot. He’s like Tyrion Lannister without the shitty nerd friends.

The others exit the cavern with various trinkets and baubles. Mat has some shards of the cuendillar, a symbol of the Aes Sedai. Lan breaks a knife on it for reasons I still don’t understand. Loial has a Horn of Valere, which even Lan is stunned to see. It exists to alert the heroes of Ages from the dead that the Dark One is back. A fight of Demons vs. Zombies! Perrin has cloth, which is unfurled to reveal Lews Therin Telamon’s banner — the banner of the Dragon.

With everything collected and the threat neutralized, it seems that they are all done for now. *checks watch* And just in time for The Voice!