The Gathering Storm/Chapter 26

==Summary==
Min talks to Aviendha to get to know her better while Aviendha has to fill a Water Bucket Drop by Drop as a Punishment. They discuss Rand who has grown more distrustful of others than he was, even Min. During the conversation Min challenges Aviendha's submission to her treatment. Aviendha is so riled afterwards that she confronts the Wise Ones Amys, Bair and Melaine on why she has to do useless Punishments. She angrily tells them she has done all they have asked and she is done with punishments unless they tell her what they wish of her. They ask her if she presumes to be their equal and she affirms that she does. The Wise Ones declare Aviendha to be accepted to act as a Wise One from then on and send her to Rhuidean to complete her training. She will start from Cold Rocks Hold and then walk or run to the city. At the city she is to enter the glass columns to learn of her history and that of the Aiel. She travels to Cold Rocks Hold by Gateway.
Romanda is interviewing Shemerin on how she came to be in the Rebel Aes Sedai camp. Lelaine Akashi and Siuan Sanche are present along with some other Sisters. The Sisters try to convince Shemerin that she can't be demoted from being Aes Sedai but she seems to have accepted her new station and won't be convinced. A small bubble of evil erupts in Romanda's tent, spewing forth a great many cockroaches. After leaving the tent they decide to burn it to destroy the insects. Siuan takes Shemerin so that the former can get a map of where a water gate is that the latter used to escape.
==Characters==
*Aviendha
*Amys
*Min Farshaw
*Rand al'Thor
*Bair
*Melaine
*Sarene Nemdahl
*Romanda Cassin
*Shemerin
*Lelaine Akashi
*Siuan Sanche
*Sheriam Bayanar
*Magla Daronos
*Rorik
*Burin Shaeren
===Referenced===
*Davram Bashere
*Semirhage
*Thom Merrilin
*Sevanna
*Egwene al'Vere
*Elaida a'Roihan
*Eleyan al'Landerin
==Places==
*Lord Tellaen's manor in Arad Doman
*Aiel Waste
*Rebel Aes Sedai camp near Tar Valon
===Referenced===
*Caemlyn
*Rhuidean
*Cold Rocks Hold
*Shara
*Tel'aran'rhiod