Calm, cool collected Moraine, women actually stopped to speak with her and seemed comfortable with her, contrasting with Nynaeve's fiery blustery temperament. Maybe the young age and inexperience, maybe even being thrust into the position of Wisdom at such a young age had an impact on her actions. Overall though, in my opinion it's just who Nynaeve is. Even later, if she ever learns to control her temper as Moraine is attempting to teach Nynaeve to do here, will she ever not be so prickly?
We also learn in this chapter that Nynaeve, a little to my dismay on first read, isn't going to simply go away any time soon. As Moraine says "She is part of the Pattern, Lan"
We also see more signs of Nynaeve's crush on Lan, thinking about how getting rid of Moraine would leave Lan better off. On first read it seemed strange, because even as much as Jordan tried to make Nynaeve a woman instead of a girl, (even if just a young woman), I still saw her as barely older than Egwene. And Lan I saw as, well, not old, but older, experienced, more like Aragorn's age (well, maybe not 87 as a Númenórean descendant, but at least the age Viggo Mortensen made him look). Which then made thinking about Lan with a teeny bopper, well, creepy. That feeling never quite went away, although later his stodginess did seem more responsibility bound rather than age-bound.
Really, I do have a lot more thoughts on Lan than this short paragraph, but those thoughts will come up later, as his character is developed and revealed.
Another quote of this wheel we hear so much of, especially later in the series, and one that Jordan hasn't explained much of yet. Thus far I'm left with the feeling that when they talk about the Wheel, the Pattern, etc., it's mostly fate. Yet, was I wrong? "The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills. No eye can see the Pattern until it is woven."
Again Jordan with the great chapter ending...."Moraine's eyes searched the horizon to the northeast. Behind them the smoke stained town of Whitebridge cowered."
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