The Dark One spun a web of possibility around Rand. Rand knew this struggle between them—the fight for what could be—was vital to the Last Battle. Rand could not weave the future. He was not the Wheel, nor anything like it. For everything that had happened to him, he was still merely a man. Yet, in him was the hope of humankind. Humankind had a destiny, a choice for its future. The path they would take… this battle would decide it, his will clashing with that of the Dark One. As of yet, what could be might become what would be. Breaking now would be to let the Dark One choose that future.
