I en okomplicerad scen möttes Moiraine och Lan Darkhound vars tryck Lan hittade efter kampen med Gray Men i Niedas gästgiveri.
"I have no time for this bickering," Moiraine broke in. "Any moment Lord Brend may learn that one of his Darkhounds is dead. You can be sure he will know that means a Warder, and he will come looking for the Gaidin's Aes Sedai. Do you mean to sit here until he discovers where you are? Move, you foolish children! Move!"
[...]
"Sammael did not send the Grey Men." Moiraine mounted Aldieb with a cool, straight-backed precision, almost as if there were no hurry. "The Darkhound was his, however. I believe it followed my trail. He would not have sent both. Someone wants you, but I do not think Sammael even knows you exist. Yet." [...]
"As well I went after you," Lan said, and the Aes Sedai sniffed loudly.
[...] "Perhaps it is well you are disobedient. Sometimes it is well. Besides, I do not think Sheriam and Siuan Sanche together could teach you obedience."
Från detta verkar det som om Moiraine antingen spårade ner Darkhound eller spåras av den, som Lan dödade det, och att hon avledde det på något sätt (förmodligen med hjälp av One Power) som det skickades av Sammael.