![]() ![]() Mat and Rand head east across the Andoran countryside, eventually making it to the mining village of Breen's Spring. The pair cannot find the others, and Mat wants to return home after they leave the ruins, though Rand is determined to go to Tar Valon where he believes Perrin and Egwene will be waiting. Not long after, Mashadar encroaches on the city and separates Rand and Mat from the rest, and they hurriedly escape via an underground passageway. While in the city streets, Mat is led to a room in which he finds an elaborate box containing an ornate ruby-hilted dagger, and takes it for himself. Perrin also comforts Mat about his sisters, saying that all his friends' parents will be checking on them. Mat snarks that Lan has been more talkative than ever when he explains the history of Aridhol, and gives Perrin a dagger that Laila made in the city. Moiraine, wounded from Trolloc poison, does not wake during an attack one night, and her Warder Lan is forced to take the group into Shadar Logoth, warning them not to touch anything or eat any food in the city. While on the road, Mat begins to sing an old song, and Moiraine tells them the history of Manetheren. When tension erupts in the group, Mat does begin Moiraine's side, believing that her channeling can protect them. As they camp for the night, Mat and the other youths begin to have nightmares involving bats and a man with embers for eyes. On the road to Whitebridge, Mat muses what may happen if one of them is truly the Dragon Reborn. ![]() The party makes it to Taren Ferry, and crosses the river before the Shadowspawn can catch up to them. Mat accepts his fate for the time being, and mounts up to leave the Two Rivers. Moiraine Damodred, a mysterious Aes Sedai visitor, approaches Mat, Rand, Perrin, and Egwene, telling them that one of them is the Dragon Reborn, and that they must leave the Two Rivers at once, or an even greater horde of Trollocs will come for the village. When the fighting is done, Mat returns to the Two Rivers and sees his sisters return to their mother, and discovers that Laila is dead. He rushes out even while the attack rages on, and finds them hiding, taking them to an oak in the woods where they can wait until the battle is over. Trollocs begin to attack the Two Rivers, and Mat rushes home to find that Bode and Eldrin are missing. In the evening, Mat, Bode and Eldrin light three lanterns. ![]() Rand and Perrin try to give money to Mat for lanterns, and he refuses at first, before embarrassedly accepting. He meets Perrin and Rand outside the inn, and learns that there is tension between Rand and Egwene. On Bel Tine, he meets the Murandian peddler Padan Fain and tries to sell him the stolen bracelet, though the other man discerns that the gold is fake and that the jewelry is stolen, and gives him three lanterns in exchange for the trinket. Mat is forced to drag her home into bed when he learns that nobody is with his sisters, and takes care of Eldrin and Bode for the rest of the night. ![]() In the evening, he finds his drunken mother outside the inn, furious when she sees Abell openly flirting with another woman in front of the town. He talks to Danya after the game, and steals her bracelet. On Winternight, Mat is in the Winespring Inn dicing with Rand, Perrin, and Danya, though loses a gamble. Growing up poor, he learned how to make a little coin go a long way through gambling and finesse, though sometimes his gambling and carousing got him into more trouble than it was worth. He is well-liked in his village, but has always looked for his ticket to a better life. Mat has been close friends with Perrin Aybara and Rand al'Thor since childhood. Both his parents ended up being neglectful, with his mother becoming a drunkard and his father becoming a lecher, and he often had to support his younger sisters. He has two younger sisters, Bode and Eldrin. Mat was born and raised in Emond's Field in the Two Rivers to Abell and Natti Cauthon. ![]()
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