The circus had been behind them for more than a week when one of Mat's Redarms approached him: "Riders coming. One of them's Vanin ( Read more... )

Valan Luca's Grand Traveling Show of Wonders and Far too Many Other Bloody Adjectives traveled at a pace that would make a snail wonder what was taking so bloody long, Mat reflected as he stared across the river at the wreckage still filling the harbor of Ebou Dar. Ripples in the land hid Ebou Dar, just over a mile to the south, but there wasn't a ( Read more... )

When Mat had heard the Seanchan soldiers going on and on about their triumphant "Return" to the continent, he had always assumed they'd meant an army. As he was jostled through the streets of Ebou Dar as thousands of Seanchan farmers, farriers, candle-stick makers and the Light knew what else streamed from ships that completely filled the harbor, ( Read more... )