Jarid’s hair-grown long during their exile-blew free, face bathed in ragged torchlight. The pressure of it all-the lost rations, the strange things in the nights-was changing him.īehind Jarid, the command tent lay in a heap. Once, his eyes hadn’t displayed such a crazed fervor. “I want to know how they drew so close, and I want that bloody Darkfriend Aes Sedai queen’s head!” Jarid pounded his fist down on the table. Jarid and his advisors stood nearby in front of a table draped with maps. “I want to know what happened here, Karam,” Lord Jarid snapped. He dropped the ball to the grass, then reached over and picked up the stones he’d been working with. Perhaps they hoped that when the sun rose, it would change the material back to normal.īayrd rolled the once-coin into a ball between his fingers. Other soldiers nearby began laying all of their metal-swords, armor clasps, mail-on the ground, like linen to be dried. Hungry men muttered as they warmed their hands around firepits the rations had spoiled long ago. Bayrd sat with his back to a large rock near the center of the war camp. The north wind picked up, making torches sputter. He felt chilled, as if he’d spent an entire night in a cellar. The hard copper now clearly bore its print, reflecting the uncertain torchlight.
It was thoroughly unnerving to feel the metal squish. And him they named Dragon.īayrd pressed the coin between his thumb and forefinger. All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. The seas boiled, and the living envied the dead.
The moon was as blood, and the sun was as ashes. The oceans fled, and the mountains were swallowed up, and the nations were scattered to the eight corners of the World. PS3560.07617M46 2013 813'.54-dc23Īnd the Shadow fell upon the Land, and the World was riven stone from stone. Rand al’Thor (Fictitious character)-Fiction. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataĪ memory of light / Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. Tor® is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC. Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC 175 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10010 The phrases “The Wheel of Time®” and “The Dragon Reborn™,” and the snake-wheel symbol are trademarks of The Bandersnatch Group, Inc. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously.Ĭopyright © 2012 by The Bandersnatch Group, Inc.
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