Bars floating in front of an Accepted, like a cage.

While waiting for a response, Min has other viewings. Faolain is certain that Min will just be told to wait for the Amyrlin's next public audience. Min gives her full name, Elmindreda she hopes the Amyrlin remembers her formal name. Faolain says she will ask if the Amyrlin can see her and asks Min her name. Faolain tells her that the Amyrlin can't see everyone, but Min invokes the right of any woman to speak to the Amyrlin. Min has a viewing of them that she understands, seeing that they'll all die on the same day. After a slight wait, the Accepted Faolain asks Min, 'How may the Tower help you?' Min is relieved to see that Faolain does not recognize her as they had met briefly before, but she still lowers her face and says that she has a question for the Amyrlin Seat when three Aes Sedai enter the chamber. There are far more women than men, because men generally do not wish to be associated with Aes Sedai lest they be mistaken for a male channeler. Min enters the White Tower and finds herself in the entry hall along with other women and men waiting for someone to answer their questions. Doing fool things because of a fool man!' -Min 'I wonder if Moiraine thinks I came just because she asked me? The Light help me, acting like a fool girl. Moiraine instructed her to avoid identification by anyone except the Amyrlin and she knows that the wrong Aes Sedai seeing her could spell doom for everything. She has just ridden from the Mountains of Mist on orders of Moiraine Sedai to tell Siuan Sanche, the Amyrlin Seat, of what had happened at Falme and after. Min Farshaw, wearing a dress as a disguise with a hooded cloak over top, approaches the White Tower afraid someone will recognize her. Summary Point of view: Min Farshaw Setting: White Tower Setting: White Tower, Two Rivers, Cantorin

For other uses of the word 'shadow,' see Shadow.

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