Wheel of Times reluctant heroes reunite amidst Aes Sedai infighting.
Read EWs recap of the sixth episode, “The Flame of Tar Valon.”
The White Tower is no longer safe.
Alvaro Morte (Logain), Kate Fleetwood (Liandrin Guirale), Rosamund Pike (Moiraine Damodred), Priyanka Bose (Alanna Mosvani).Jan Thijs/Amazon Studios
He’s right, like it or not.
“We need to present a united front.”
But the idea of a united front is a hollow one.
Kate Fleetwood (Liandrin Guirale).Jan Thijs/Amazon Studios
Moiraine counters with a curious morsel of her ownshe knows about Liandrin’s connection to a man in Northharbor.
Thankfully, she and Siuan have an understanding.
How reliable can it be after so many retranslations and interpretations?
Rosamund Pike (Moiraine Damodred).Jan Thijs/Amazon Studios
And it turns out she’s got some prophecy of her own.
If it can be defeated once and for all, it has to be now.
Now, she just needs to reunite with her potential Dragons.
After a brief reunion, the pair are ferried off to Siuan’s chambers.
“What any of us wants now is meaningless,” Siuan intones.
“The last battle is coming.”
There’s one battle that must be fought first, thoughthe one for Mat’s soul.
Rand greets them with trepidation, pulling his sword out for fear Moiraine will gentle his friend.
“He’s stronger than he has any right to be,” she says.
“It was feeding off the darkness in him as much as he was off it.”
One step in The Ways, Loial explains, could be a hundred miles in our world.
The party is cut short, however, when Moiraine lays out their mission.
When they arrive, “one of you will finish the job you started in your previous life.”
They won’t know until they arrive.
Perhaps best not to mention that.
The stakes, she emphasizes, are too high.
“The Earth will burn,” she warns, if the Dark One is again unleashed.
Echoing Siuan’s words to Nynaeve, she concludes: “Whatever happens now is beyond our control.”
Our heroes file in, all except for one.
Without a word, he’s made his choice clear.
The door closes, leaving him alone in the shadow of Tar Valon.
