Selene has been talking about “Portal Stones” and how they must use one to escape the swarm of grolm. Rand’s got it, though, and, in succession, and using saidin, pierces the eyes of five grolm rendering them, as I see it, and adding as many commas as I can into this sentence, very dead. Hurin, Loial, and Selene are like “omg wow”, but then a huge swarm of grolm (always in italics) approaches. Shit’s gonna get dire, and Rand doesn’t have a trillion arrows to work with. What is he, some sort of video game character? Please.

So, Rand agrees to try to use the Portal Stone even though he’s a whiny baby about channeling the One Power too much. This time, he has a beautiful lady to try to impress, so that makes a difference. He taps into that delicious, rich, and tasty saidin (always in italics) and the environment flickers for a bit until they are back in their vivid, not-weird world. He doesn’t know what he did or how he did it, but Rand did it, and everyone is thoroughly impressed! *golf clap*

Next they need to find Fain, so Hurin recalibrates his sniffin’ nose. Selene speaks of other worlds where one can sense where violence is going to be instead of where violence already occurred, which freaks out Hurin something terrible. The few times that Selene really compliments Rand, he thinks about kissing her. He holds back every time though, because that would be ridiculous and uncouth besides.

The chapter ends with them setting out to find Padan Fain, and hopefully catch up Ingtar and his Poopypants Bunch.