*wink* It wasn't a result of them being cowards, it was a result of them, once again, thinking they knew more or knew better than a man. *wink*

First time we 'see' a connection is here, CoT, Chapter 24 - A Srengthening Storm:

"Irritably, Rand pushed his sleeves down and dropped into a chair. What he had done made no matter to Logain. The man knew saidin was clean, but he could not believe Rand or any man had actually done the cleansing. Did he think the Creator had decided to stretch out a merciful hand after three thousand years of suffering? The Creator had made the world and then left humankind to make of it what they would, a heaven or the Pit of Doom by their choosing. The Creator had made many worlds, watched each flower or die, and gone on to make endless worlds beyond. A gardener did not weep for each blossom that fell.

For an instant, he though those must have been Lews Therin's reflections. He had never gone on that way about the Creator or anything else that he recalled. But he could feel Lews Therin nodding in approval, a man listening to someone else. Still, it was not the kind of thing he would have considered before Lews Therin. How much space remained between them?"

He 'feels' Lews Therin nodding in approval to these thoughts, which he knows are not his own. The wording leads me to think of a philosophic mind, and we only know one reincarnated philosipher to whom Rand is now connected.

I don't know if it was due to Rand's hardening, or the fact that he could hardly accept the idea of one other person in his head, let alone a second presence.

I'm really curious what effect the destruction of Shadar Logoth would have had upon Fain. We haven't seen him since SL went cablooey with the taint, so I'm a little piqued.