Memories of Light - Day Seventeen

The release of A Memory of Light, the final volume of Robert Jordan's epic Wheel of Time series, is now only days away. To celebrate this tremendous moment, decades in the making, we will be releasing daily previews of the final volume. Sentences, words, paragraphs, chapter titles...memories, if you will, of light.

Today's Memory of Light is: 

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"It is one of the three things which I will require of you. Your payment, to me, in exchange for my life."

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 All will be revealed when A Memory of Light goes on sale on January 8th, but until then, join the ongoing discussion of each new piece of the puzzle on the Memories of Light spoiler thread.