Nynaeve kidnaps a sul’dam to aid in rescuing Egwene. Rand defeats High Lord Turak and steals the Horn of Valere back.
Together with Elayne and Min, Nynaeve stakes out a street, waiting for a single sul’dam/damane pair to be walking alone. Then Nynaeve channels a trickle of Power at their a’dam, making it fall open and clatter to the ground. The damane is shocked for a moment, then punches her sul’dam hard enough to nearly knock her over. The damane runs off, and they drag the sul’dam to a nearby stable.
The sul’dam — Seta — laughs off the idea that an a’dam could work on her, so she thinks it’s pretty fucking funny when Nynaeve places the collar around her neck. But once she feels the punishment Nynaeve doles out, she isn’t laughing anymore. With Seta posing as her damane, Nynaeve steels herself for the real challenge: breaking Egwene out.
Rand, Mat, Perrin, Ingtar, and Hurin walk the streets of Falme, hunting for the Horn and the dagger. Hurin has trouble finding a clear trail since Fain has been all over the town for months now. But when they walk by High Lord Turak’s manor, Mat declares with certainty that the dagger lies within. The front of the manor is heavily guarded, so they follow a side-street to a back alley. The back yard is almost entirely unguarded, and the group is able to easily sneak into the house. With a bit of luck, they avoid servants and reach Turak’s treasure room.
Mat immediately grabs the Horn and the dagger. In the next moment, Turak appears with a contingent of Seanchan soldiers. One of them tries to take the Horn, but Mat slashes him with the dagger and he immediately dies, painfully and violently. With everyone else suddenly busy dealing with the soldiers, Turak and Rand face each other in combat. Rand is alarmed to see that Turak also has a heron marked blade. Turak is eager to test his skill against a blademaster from across the ocean.
At first Rand refuses to use the void because he doesn’t like how saidin is always right there waiting. Turak manages to wound him in multiple places, and he wonders aloud how Rand got his sword, because he clearly isn’t skilled enough to have earned it. Rand realizes that he has to use the void, so he has his Princess Bride moment. Turak begins to sweat and the poor guy doesn’t even last three paragraphs before Rand slices him open.
With the blademaster and his guards dealt with, the group realizes that nobody even raised an alarm. Amazing — they just murdered a High Lord of Seanchan, stole his prize relic, and walked out like it was just another Tuesday.