Thom is on his way back to his hotel room early in the morning after the night's festivities. The nobles at Lord Barthanes' party questions him about Rand after Rand talked with him. Dena is on the bed, dead with her throat cut. He hears a sound behind him and spins with his knives and kills one attacker immediately wounds the other. He questions the attacker that is still alive and he tells Thom he is getting information on Rand for Lord Barthanes. He kills the second telling him they should have left Dena alone. The innkeeper Zera comes in. Zera tells him that the men really worked for King Galldrian. She tells him she will take care of the bodies, and he has to get out of Cairhien. Thom tells her that he has someone he has to kill before he leaves. Later that night, King Galldrian is