Life often gets in
the way of what one would really like to be doing.
I have a co-worker
who has only recently started on his Wheel of Time re-read, started with A New
Spring, and is already on (or through) book five of the series. Unfortunately when homework and housework and
blogging get backed up, blogging is the one that gives. Needless to say there are/will be resolutions
that help me organize my time more efficiently in the future.
This chapter is a
conversation (could also be called an argument) between two women (Moraine and
Nynaeve), Lan is simply a bystander throughout the conversation (as any smart
man would be). The small set up to get Nynaeve
to Moraine and Lan is well done, especially the part that talks about the
Trollocs "They know the smell of
who they want...and it is not me."
The by-play by
Moraine and Nynaeve is well done, but also well done is keeping Lan in the
picture, keeping the reader aware of the fact that he is indeed still there,
just staying out of the conversation.
The reader also
learns quite a bit about the how the One Power manifests itself in people. I can't quite call this one an info dump,
because how Jordan presents the information is not a monologue, rather, it's a
back and forth exchange between Moraine and Nynaeve.
What is left
unspoken in the dialogue in this chapter, it comes purely from Nynaeve's POV, is the banter between Nynaeve
and Lan. Lan is shocked that Nynaeve
came upon them without him hearing anything, so Nynaeve feels she has one up on
him. Then Nynaeve is shocked when Lan
is able to follow her tracks back to find her horse.
This chapter was
enjoyable, if only because it knocked Nynaeve down a few pegs. The next chapters are Perrin and Egwene
chapters, I can't wait to go over those ones.
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