Mats's publicly known as Dragonsworn, and he has an army camped at her gates. Thom is no better. There are HS there who will recognize him as Morgase's devious old Bard and accomplished political and scheming "grey eminence" at her side. Thom wouldn't be welcome near Elayne by these people. Not quite. Mat's timing is just by happenstance really bad. Elayne has made a big show that she isn't tied down by Rand nor Dragonsworn - and convinced the HS to give her the throne despite Rand's proclamation about her, and the minute she's Queen, a famous army of Dragonsworn comes knocking at her door. Elayne has to make a show of ignoring him, she has no choice.
That does make sense, but it does not explain everything. It is one thing to publicly refuse to meet with Mat for political reasons, it is quite another to ignore him completely. Elayne is a channeler and has channelers around her. Her pregnancy may mean that it takes some effort to channel, but she can still do it. She could easily cloak herself in an illusion and travel to/from her private rooms for a secret meeting with Mat to talk to him and explain things. How could that be discovered? For that matter she could send Birgitte (who is a friend of Mat) to meet Mat and talk while claiming that she was just there to check the security risk or whatever. The point is that there are lots of ways that Elayne could meet with Mat unofficially without risk. Instead she seems to be ignoring him utterly in actual truth.
Elayne just has to keep her distance at first, and it appears Mat has not told her *why* he needs to meet her, just that he wants to. Had he told Norry, something might have already been arranged, though Mat doesn't seem to realize it will be a problem for Elayne that if she commits the foundries, she would publicly tie herself to Mat... unless Aludra agrees to equip the Andorans with dragons, a ruse with which Elayne could commit the foundries to the task and equip the Band on the side. Except... Aludra was alluding to the fact she'd basically request all resources of Andor for the Band, which is quite unreasonable. Elayne can't accept that, there's nothing for Andor in this (unless Mat pays, and even then some of these resources are likely needed for the national needs!), and she will be blamed and called a bad ruler if she agreed to Aludra's request.
Mat seems to be primarily worried about Trollocs and the shadow, which does make sense considering his connection to Rand. The other enemy that he has acknowledged are the Seanchan, who Elayne is also opposed to. I see no reason why Mat would have any problem sharing the technology to create weapons with Elayne&Andor. She knows that Elayne is opposed to the shadow and with the civil-war over, any dragons that Andor gets would be used for purposes Mat would support.
SPOILERS!!! What's up with Elayne?
17/09/2010 04:31:52 AM
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Labour?
17/09/2010 04:45:03 AM
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She's nowhere close to that...
17/09/2010 04:57:17 AM
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Do we know where she is in her pregnancy?
17/09/2010 04:59:46 AM
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She will almost have completed her 10th year by the time ToM is released. *NM*
17/09/2010 07:37:41 AM
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they'll be the biggest babies in egwene's channeling baby army *NM*
17/09/2010 08:19:25 AM
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Re: Do we know where she is in her pregnancy?
17/09/2010 11:21:43 PM
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It should probably be noted that it is not uncommon for twins....
19/09/2010 12:26:57 AM
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I think there is probably a good reason, if not...
17/09/2010 06:19:32 AM
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Does Rand know she's pregnant? If not, probably she doesn't want him to know, so can't let Mat know. *NM*
17/09/2010 06:54:39 AM
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I haven't read the Prologue, but isn't that a Queenly thing to do?
17/09/2010 03:30:41 PM
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Nobody suggested it yet, but Forsaken involvement (Graendal?) is possible
17/09/2010 04:32:57 PM
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Well.... one of my predictions was that...
17/09/2010 06:48:16 PM
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I just read it and I agree esp. regarding the "political poison" aspect.
17/09/2010 06:58:25 PM
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Re: Well.... one of my predictions was that...
17/09/2010 10:27:46 PM
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