The Great Hunt/Chapter 6

==Summary==
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Rand awakes from a nightmare in Egwene's apartment in the women's quarters of Fal Dara keep. Nynaeve is there, knitting but not really paying attention to it. She tells Rand that Egwene has gone off to visit Padan Fain, with Mat or Perrin if she can find them. Rand exclaims that Fain is dangerous. Rand asks Nynaeve whether a search has started for him yet, and Nynaeve reports curious movements of maids in the halls. The maids should have their hands full preparing for the feast that is being held for the Amyrlin later tonight, but instead they are running around everywhere. Nynaeve even saw Lady Amalisa emerge from a storeroom with dust all over her face! Rand is convinced that a search for him would be carried out by soldiers, so he dismisses this. Nynaeve concedes that it doesn't make sense for Amalisa to be searching for Rand, but she must have been searching for something desperately.Lady Amalisa, acting under Liandrin's Compulsion from the previous chapter, has ordered the maids to find the three ta'veren and is even searching herself. Nynaeve saw that even the men were confused about the behavior of the women.
An alarm sounds and after they conclude that it's not about Rand, he becomes worried about Egwene who was visiting Padan Fain. He goes in search of her and finds the Amyrlin in the hallway. He runs into a Myrddraal on the way to the dungeon and is afraid. Ingtar arrives and tells Rand that he will take care of the Fade. Rand makes it to the dungeons and finds the guards dead and messages on the walls written in blood. One message, on the door says "We will meet again on Toman Head. It is never over, al'Thor." He scrubs off the message just as Liandrin arrives, who tries to use Compulsion on him to find out his name and what he is doing. Rand resists, not telling Liandrin anything. Desperate, he is about to reach for saidin as Moiraine arrives and Liandrin stops her weave. He rushes into the cells and finds that the other prisoners have gone insane. Then he finds Egwene and Mat on the floor, passed out, in Padan Fain's cell. Moiraine calls for the guards to get a litter for Mat and Egwene. Moiraine says that Egwene only suffered a minor head injury and will be all right. As Moiraine is seeing to Mat, she says his dagger is gone, and to take him to the Amyrlin. Liandrin is incensed at her lack of information and being mostly ignored, but can do nothing except leave.
Ingtar rushes in and tells Rand that the Horn of Valere is gone. Trollocs made it into the keep through the Dog Gate. The guardsmen at the gate had their throats cut by someone they knew, a Darkfriend. Rand learns from Ingtar that Lord Agelmar had not previously issued that order for all the gates to be closed, which confuses him greatly. As he follows Ingtar out of the dungeon, he sees Verin and another Brown Aes Sedai transcribe the Trolloc writing on the walls. Outside he meets Lan, who is very amused by the story of Rand running through the women's apartments with a sword. Lan tells Rand that he is free to leave anytime even though Agelmar has ordered the keep locked down, as Moiraine insisted that he be exempt. Rand asks Lan whether Moiraine issued the earlier order to stop him from leaving, but Lan only looks troubled and says nothing.
==Characters==
*Rand
*Nynaeve
*Siuan - as Amyrlin
*Leane - as tall woman with staff
*Ingtar
*Liandrin
*Egwene
*Mat
*Moiraine
*Verin
*Serafelle - as Aes Sedai with brown shawl
*Lan
===Referenced===
*Padan Fain
*Amalisa
*Perrin
*Dark One
*Changu
*Ronan
*Kajin
*Agelmar
*Ragan
*Tema
*Red (horse)
==Groups==
*Aes Sedai
===Referenced===
*Warders
*Darkfriends
*Women's Circle
*Village Council
==Places==
*Fal Dara
*Shienar
===Referenced===
*Emond's Field
*Tar Valon
*Two Rivers
*Black Hills
*Caralain Grass
==Items==
===Referenced===
*Horn of Valere