Having coerced Juilin into betrayal, Liandrin and the rest of the Black Ajah shield Nynaeve, Egwene, and Elayne from the True Source. Liandrin takes them to the Stone of Tear — Rand is pursuing Callandor, and she needs bait for a trap.
Nynaeve is buying meat from a butcher. She isn’t happy about the deal she’s getting, so she inflicts braid-tug number twenty-five on us. If I were the butcher, I would double the price just for that. On the way back to Guenna’s house, Nynaeve stews about how frustrating it has been waiting for Juilin to find something. Anything! The wait is eating her up inside, and the only thing left is to tug on the fucking braid again. That’s number twenty-six!
She runs into Juilin on the way back. Not only has he found Liandrin and her accomplices, but they are honored guests of the High Lord Samon in the Stone! She promises to explain everything to him, but when they arrive at Guenna’s house, Liandrin is already there. She and another Black Ajah shield Nynaeve from the True Source, and beat her to the floor with flows of Air. And there it is — that conflict of interest I was talking about. It’s not that Juilin wanted to double cross them, but they weren’t exactly straight about who they were asking him to find.
Liandrin loads Nynaeve, Elayne, and an unconscious Egwene into a coach and gleefully villain-splains that they’ll be used as bait — for Rand, I presume. And after that? Be’lal and thirteen Fades have a special ceremony to conduct that will turn them all to the shadow. Nynaeve and Elayne scream in horror, Liandrin and her companion cackle maniacally, and you can practically hear the music crescendo as we cut to our commercial break.