Ch.37 - What I feel is important from the chapter
- “‘We stood it upright,”’ Alar said, “‘when we found it many years ago, but we did not move it. It … seemed to … resist being moved.”’ It makes me think the Portal Stone could be like some humongous magnet since it can’t leave this spot.
- “‘Is this necessary, Verin Sedai? Even if it can be done…. We do not even know if the Darkfriends really have taken the Horn to Toman Head. I still believe I can make Barthanes—“‘ “‘If we cannot be sure,”’ Verin said mildly, cutting him off, “‘then Toman Head is a good place to look as any other. More than once I’ve heard you say you would ride to Shayol Ghul if need be to recover the Horn. Do you hold back now, at this?”’
- Verin looked at him blandly. “‘I have never used a Stone; that is why you’d use is more recent than mine. I am well aware of my limits. I wound be destroyed before I came close to channeling enough Power to work a Portal Stone. But I know a little of them. Enough to help you, a bit”’ (442).
- Verin sighed. “‘The symbols at the bottom indicate Stones at other places. If you know the trick of it, you could take us, not to this same Stone in another world, but to one of those there, or even to one of them here. It was something akin to Traveling, I think, but just as no one remembers how to Travel, no one remembers the trick. Without that knowledge, trying might easily destroy us all”’ (443).
- “She pointed to two parallel wavy lines crossed by an odd squiggle, carved low on the column.” “‘That indicates a Stone on Toman Head. It is one of three Stones for which I know the symbol; the only one of those three I’ve visited.
- …… “Do you play at dice, or cards, Rand al’Thor?” “‘Mat’s the gambler. Why?”’ …… “‘At least,”’ Verin went on, “‘I know this much about them. Each stands for a world, the study of which led eventually to the making of the Ways. These are not all of the worlds studied, but the only ones for which I know the symbols. This is where gambling comes in. I don’t know what any of these worlds is like. It is believed there are worlds where a year is only a day here, and others where a day is a year here. There are supposed to be worlds where the very air would kill us at a breath, and worlds that barely have enough reality to hold together.
……”You must choose. As my father would would have said, it’s time to roll the dice” (443-444).
- “......and when they returned the next they brought word that Arthur Hawkwing’s armies had come back, or their descendents, at least.” “The old nations were broken, it was said, and the new world’s masters, who used chained Aes Sedai in their battles, had torn down the White Tower and salted the ground where Tar Valon had stood. There were no more Aes Sedai. It made little difference in the Two Rivers” (445-446).
in different ones he was a soldier, a shepherd, a beggar, and a king. Also a farmer, gleeman, sailor, and a carpenter
He died mad, he died rotting, he died of sickness, accident, age.
He loved other women, married other women. Elaine, Min, and a fair-haired farmer’s daughter met on the road to Caemlyn, and women he had never seen before he lived those lives.
- “‘I’ve never heard it, but there is no reason we would not be born in those worlds, yet the lives we lived would be different lives. Of course. Different lives for the different ways things might have happened.”’ “‘Is that what happened? I … we … saw how our lives could have been?”’ I have won again, Lews Therin. No! I am Rand al’Thor! Verin gave herself a shake and looked at him. “‘Does it surprise you that your life might go differently if you made different choices, or different things happened to you? Though I never thought I— Well. The important thing is, we are here. Though not as we hoped”’ (450). (?)
- “The handful of trees nearby were bare branched, or else held a few leaves bright with color. A cold wind gusted from the east, sending leaves scurrying across the ground. “‘Toman Head,”’ Verin said. “‘This is the Stone I visited. You should not have tried to bring us directly here. I don’t know what went wrong— I don’t suppose I ever will—but from the trees, I would say it is well into late autumn. Rand, we haven’t gained any time by it. “‘We’ve lost time. I would say we have easily spent four months in coming here”’ (450). (?)
- “‘You must let me guide you in these things. I cannot teach you, it’s true, but perhaps I can at least keep you from killing yourself—and the rest of us—by overreaching. Even if you don’t kill yourself, if the Dragon Reborn burns himself out like a guttering candle, who will face the Dark One then”’ (450)?
- “‘Rand, I’d never tell anyone about—about you. I wouldn’t betray you. You have to believe that!”’ He looked worse than ever, but Rand thought it was mostly fright. “‘I do,”’ Rand said. He wondered what lives Mat had lived, and what he had done. “He must have told someone, or he wouldn’t be so anxious about it. He could not hold it against him. Those had been other Mats, not this one. Besides, after some of the alternatives he had seen for himself…. I believe you. Perrin?”’
- “The curly-haired youth dropped his hands from his face with a sigh. Red marks scorched his forehead and cheeks where his nails had dug in. His yellow eyes hid his thoughts.” “‘We don’t don’t have many choices really, do we, Rand? Whatever happens, whatever we do, some things are almost always the same.”’ (?)
- “But how are we going to find Fain and the dagger now? He could be anywhere by this time.” “‘He’s here,”’ Rand assures him. He hoped he was right. Fain had had time to take ship for anyplace he wanted to go. Time to ride to Emond’s Field. Or Tar Valon. Please, Light he didn’t get tired of waiting. If he’s hurt Egwene, or anybody in Emond’s Field, I’ll…. Light burn me, I tried to come in time”’ (451).
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