This prequel covers events that occur far before Book One of the Wheel of Time. Expanded from a short story that first appeared in Robert Silverbergs anthology Legends (1998) – Robert Jordan follows Moiraine Damodred and Siuan Sanche before they were Aes Sedai. As young Accepted, they happen to be on hand when the foretelling of the birth of the Dragon occurs. & the rest is pure Robert Jordan history.