"You said once that I could get her hurt..."

[Shandy]

Maybe this should have gone in 'Books', but oh well...

I just have a query from 'Winter's Heart'. It's the bit where Rand visits Nynaeve as the man with the scrip, and suddenly ripples and changes back into Rand... and starts conversing with Lan and Nyn in their sitting room.

Now, after Rand puts his proposal of he and Nyn using the access keys, Lan says something along the lines of "If it could be done, wouldn't they have done it in the Age of Legends?" Then he says "You said once that I could get her hurt. You could kill her, Sheepherder..."

I just don't understand what the "You said once that I could get her hurt" is a reference to. When has Rand ever said this to Lan? Could someone point me to the place? Or was it just a little earlier in the chapter when he says "Even if the real Aes Sedai let her, she could get hurt..."? Sorry, this has been bugging me for ages, I thought someone here might know...

[Isabel]

He and Rand talked to each other after Moiraine 'died' and Lan disappeared. It happened than.

See:

TITLE: Fires of Heaven
CHAPTER: 53 - Fading Words
"I am your friend, Rand. But I cannot stay.” Lan swung up into his saddle. “Moiraine did something to me that has not been done in hundreds of years, not since the time when Aes Sedai still sometimes bonded a Warder whether he wanted it or not. She altered my bond so it passed to another when she died. Now I must find that other, become one of her Warders. I am one, already. I can feel her faintly, somewhere far to the west, and she can feel me. I must go, Rand. It is part of what Moiraine did. She said she would not allow me time to die avenging her.” He gripped the reins as if holding Mandarb back, as if holding himself back from digging his spurs in. “if you ever see Nynaeve again, tell her. . ."


4 TITLE: Fires of Heaven
CHAPTER: 53 - Fading Words
“I will tell her whatever you say, Lan, but I don’t know that she’ll believe me.” Lan bent from the saddle to catch Rand’s shoulder in a hard grip. Rand remembered calling the man half-tame wolf, but those eyes made a wolf seem a lapdog. “We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is a darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love a woman, Rand, leave her and let her find another. It will be the best gift you can give her.” Straightening, he raised one hand. “Peace favor your sword. Tai’shar Manetheren.” The ancient salute. True blood of Manetheren.

[Shandy]

Yep, yep, I remember these bits all good and well.

But there's no reference to RAND telling LAN that he could hurt Nynaeve, it's the other way around.

[HammerOfGod]

You have turned around what Rand said to Lan in Winter's Heart...Rand accepted what Lan said when Moraine died... and Lan then said to Rand I will not let you do it...in other words it was a threat leveled at Rand not to hurt Nynaeve...