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tallangrycockatiel · 7 years

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WoT B1C15: Nynaeve! :D

Rand and co have a day out in Baerlon and make a bit of a pig’s ear of it. Rand meets a girl called Min who knows Lady Rain and can see things around people. She tells him a lot of symbolic stuff and then vanishes. He bumps into the peddler from the village, who did not die, and lets slip to him that Lady Rain is in town. Then Mat pulls a mud-related prank on some Children of the Light, and Rand ends up talking back to them in front of everyone. So much for lying low. Mat and Perrin also had the dreams. They tell Thom, who agrees it’s bad but says not to tell Lady Rain. They get back to the inn to find an emergency: Nynaeve has tracked them down!

Long chapter, many things. Long chapters are likely to get shorter summaries, actually, to focus on just a couple of interesting things and not end up retelling the whole story.

I hope we see more of Min, because she immediately came off as brilliantly chaotic neutral, said a whole lot of stuff which is probably going to be prophetic and relevant later but I am going to forget, and just for bonus points is also super butch. I am here for this. She also laughs in a loud and unsettling manner. She’s not an Aes Sedai, but according to Lady Rain she has some kind of magical ability in a sideways sort of way. She looks at a person and sees things about them – like being able to tell when two people will end up married, before they’ve even met. She says Rand and Egg both fancy each other but are fated to not be together, and Egg is fated to become an Aes Sedai. All good things, I like this person.

Rand is really terrible at the whole Secrecy thing, and I would put money on the peddler going to the Children of the Light about Lady Rain. There’s some implication that the bad dream, which was clearly more than that, is having some kind of effect on him; he gets spacey and reckless and isn’t in full control of himself. As a result, he sasses the Children of the Light, who therefore accuse him of being evil. They’re exactly as much fun as everyone has been saying they are.

About the dream. Okay. Mat and Perrin had the same dream, possibly different in detail but basically the same. In the dream, the Dark One kills a rat by breaking its back. That morning, the inn was full of dead rats with broken backs. The boys are understandably freaked out. Thom Merrilin also confirms that some of the name drops the Dark One made are men who did terrible things hundreds or thousands of years ago. So it was real, for some given value of ‘real’. They’re now worried that if they tell Lady Rain, she’ll kill them on grounds of being nascent evil. Which is not a completely unjustified fear.

That all three have the same dream is interesting. They’re all being chased because they’re all the right age to fulfil this prophesy thing, and if they’re all getting the dreams that suggests that either the Dark One really has no better way of working out who the Chosen One is, or they are all three Chosen Ones. Maybe this is a Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom situation, prophesy-wise?

I just re-read my summary of chapter 9, where Rand has another dream involving the Dark One, and it appears that he has at least two names. Which makes sense for a millennia-old force of pure evil, and is a nice touch.

Chapter highlight: Nynaeve! She followed them, badgered the ferryman into rowing her across the river, and has arrived in Baerlon! Lady Rain is immediately pissed off! Maybe someone will get thumped with the Stick of Anger! Nynaeve!

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