Enligt Brandon Sanderson fick han veta att Bela var tvungen att dö och faktiskt skrev sin död i ett minne av ljuset.
JEFFREY BERNARD (23 JANUARY 2013)
With all the deaths that occurred in A Memory of Light, were there any that hit you harder than any others?
BRANDON SANDERSON (23 JANUARY 2013) Egwene. After that, Bela. I'd promised she would live, but Harriet decided that I was cheating to
keep her alive.
BELLYGOD
Why did you kill Bela?
BRANDON SANDERSON
I tried to keep her alive! Harriet told me I'd put her in too bad a
situation, and she needed to die.
BRANDON SANDERSON
She was right, of course, but it still hurts. 59
TEREZ
Bela. @BrandSanderson told us twice that she would survive. :( But
apparently Harriet later insisted she should die.
BRANDON SANDERSON (13 JANUARY 2013) Yeah. Harriet felt that we had
painted that character into a corner, and the story demanded that
conclusion.
DANIEL SHEPARD Is that the GRRM moment? Or the character that was gonna recover from their injuries?
BRANDON SANDERSON
Character was going to recover.
BRANDON SANDERSON She was right to make that call, but it does turn me
into a liar. That's what I get for speaking too soon... 56
Enligt andra intervjuer tycktes Belas död vara det mest talade om sak på bokturneringen och intervjuer efter att AMOL släpptes.
BRANDON SANDERSON (PARAPHRASED)
Bela's death was the runaway winner for most brought up subject, to which Brandon usually arched his arm across the head of Memory Keeper Aviendha, pointed at Harriet and said, "Blame her." At one point he said he wrote a scene where she fought back to life, but Harriet cut it. She overheard this, said it wasn't true and Brandon responded that he'd wanted to. He then said that he likes to think that when the Horn is called next one of the Heroes will be riding a shaggy, gray mare. 61
Det kan vara en anledning, att när de skrev Companion, att de tog Bela tillbaka till livet.
She was thought to be dead, but unaccountably survived. In the first years of the Fourth Age she gave birth to a strong colt and a splendid filly and retired to green pastures in the Two Rivers.