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Chapters: 11/13 Fandom: Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rand al'Thor/Mat Cauthon, Rand al'Thor/Mat Cauthon/Elayne Trakand, Aviendha/Elayne Trakand Characters: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Elayne Trakand, Moiraine Damodred, Min Farshaw, Asmodean (Wheel of Time), Aviendha (Wheel of Time), Egwene al'Vere, Thom Merrilin, Verin Mathwin Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mix of Show and Book Canon, Alternate Universe - Fate swap, Canon-Typical Violence, Polyamorous Character, Polyamory Negotiations, spoilers through book 5: the fires of heaven Series: Part 11 of voice in the back of my head Summary: After Rand announces himself as the Car'a'carn at Alcair Dal, he takes spears north, heading towards Niamh Pass near the Shienaran border to beat back the Shadowspawn currently overrunning Shienar.

…had that been Elayne Trakand, on the steps of the Sun Palace? Surely not. It must be an old man's eyes playing tricks.

Thom Merrilin shook his head in disbelief and checked around the corner again.

By the Light, it was Elayne. Though she was certainly taller now, her face had not changed so much that he could not recognize her. Why would she be in Cairhien — in the middle of a civil war and an invasion of Aiel? He'd heard-

Thom had heard whispers that she'd disappeared from the White Tower under mysterious circumstances, that the former Amyrlin Seat Siuan Sanche had done something to make her disappear, that Morgase was still in a heartbroken rage over it, not that Thom could blame her. To see Elayne here, alive, after all that. Light, he'd been all-but certain the child was dead. Young Elayne, whose eyes had always sparkled merrily when he told her stories or sang her a song about the past.

She was talking to a young man — tall, dark-haired… familiar…

Mat Cauthon?