Min, Siuan and Leane are riding along with a very depressed Logain. He still has his crown of future glory aura that Min can see. It has been fifteen days since they departed Lugard. After a while they move from Woodland into a large village, one that was deserted not too long ago. There are more women than there should be around the village, fewer men and almost no children. She then notices that many of the women have auras, making them Aes Sedai. They enter the largest inn to find many women busy with parchments or giving orders to warders.