Chapter 44 (The Dark Along the Ways)

Finally we're once again getting some action, or at least it feels as if the book is finally moving way more towards its purpose. Less world building in this chapter and more impressions.

Impressions (if not also outright stated) 

Perrin is making the other two boys nervous.

Moraine being so worried about Master Gill and the inn she's leaving behind in Caemlyn shows she does have feelings. She just, as I stated before keeps hers deep/hidden whether out of how she was raised or because she's Aes Sedai (more probably, both). She also gives Master Gill a contact she trusts within the White Tower - Sheriam Sedai of the Blue Ajah, name dropping again...

Between Perrin's wolf thing he has going on, and with Loial and his "sensing" of the Waygates and the way he's spoken of other Talents the Ogier have it seems there's more magic in Jordan's world than just kind the Aes Sedai harness.

Speaking of the Aes Sedai magic, I chuckle when Moraine uses her staff in this chapter, did she have a weave to go with that tap on the door?

Several quotes about and from inside the ways that I enjoyed:

Things are different inside the ways. Lan

The Wheel turns faster inside the Ways. Loial

Do not surrender before you are beaten. Lan

No wry comments from Mat, which I found made the seriousness/danger that much more apparent.

Jordan's use of the word treadmill (a more "modern" word to me) did make me pause - The horses might have been walking a treadmill for the change around them. Then again Sanderson's use of "palm trees" and the phrase hors d'oeuvre really threw me off in Warbreaker, so I'm just that type of reader.

And then Jordan's wonderful sudden ending of the chapter.

'We will stop when it is time to sleep'.....the silence was broken by a startled grunt from Loial.....the bridge ended in a jagged gap...