Before I Knew What Was Happening, I

On A Day Of Fire And Blood, A Tattered Banner Waved Above Dumai's Wells, Bearing The Ancient Symbol Of Aes Sedai. On A Day Of Fire And Blood And The One Power, As Prophecy Had Suggested, The Unstained Tower, Broken, Bent Knee To The Forgotten Sign. The First Nine Aes Sedai Swore Fealty To The Dragon Reborn, And The World Was Changed Forever.

We Rode On The Winds Of The Rising Storm, We Ran To The Sounds Of The Thunder. We Danced Among The Lightning Bolts, And Tore The World Asunder.

Prophecy Is Most Dangerous When You Try To Make It Happen... The Pattern Weaves Itself Around You, But When You Try To Weave It, Even You Cannot Hold It.

He Came Like The Wind, Like The Wind Touched Everything, And Like The Wind Was Gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, Son Of Arent Son Of Halan, The Fourth Age.

He Was Swimming In A Sea Of Other People’s Expectations. Men Had Drowned In Seas Like That.