Given what I just mentioned about the previous chapter being dark and all that, this chapter is still stock full of some pretty nasty characters. Made all the more loathsome as they utterly believe they are doing the right thing. In history, I believe, those are the groups that commit the most heinous of acts. No man is so lost he cannot be brought into the Light.
I'm not sure that anywhere else in the series do you find someone who handles Egwene as aptly as Elyas. Here's another quote from him that I love, "You expecting to make that mare crawl?" As Egwene hops down to try to join Elyas and Perrin scouting ahead.
Back to Perrin and Egwene traveling leisurely with Elyas and accompanying the Tinkers. Here, I love the quote from Elyas when querried on why they're not moving faster "Don't be in such a bloody hurry to put yourself in Aes Sedai hands."
Again with the traveling taking forever. Before I stopped posting three years ago I'd actually had notes on chapters 24 and 25, and what I had on this chapter was "they traveled three days." So much more happens, but the traveling...man, actually, that was also used as a way to introduce the world, well done, sir.
"They
say he can." Four words that say so
much about what Robert Jordan has in store for Perrin Aybara and yet not even
everything.
