Mat is having a drink in a bar, pondering the evening's events. He is shaken by the attack on the Stone, on the Gray Man that tried to assassinate him, the Myrddraal that named him "Hornsounder" and was going to kill him when Trollocs attacked the Fade. After the Fade was dead, the Trollocs just left him there. His thoughts keep drifting to the Twisted redstone doorframe Egwene told him about.