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“If Zoe can be this brave to protect her city and her friends…the least Miss Marvel can do is have her back” -Kamala Khan

Ms. Marvel #17 (2017)

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I am afraid I really haven’t given you any good news at all, have I?”

“Not very much,” Elayne told her. None, really. Just another problem to stack up on all the rest. How much bad news could be stacked before the pile buried you? She had to get some good, soon.

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“Tai’shar Manetheren,” he said softly.

Nynaeve’s mouth fell open, then curled into a tremulous smile. Sudden tears glistened in her eyes as she spun to face him, her face joyous. He smiled back at her, and there was nothing cold in his eyes.

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Unanticipated

An icy thought made Elayne shiver. Who holds Caemlyn holds Andor, the ancient saying went; it was not exactly true, as Rand had demonstrated, yet Caemlyn was Andor’s heart. She had laid claim to the city—the Lion Banner and Trakand’s Silver Keystone shared pride of place on the towers of the outer wall—but she did not yet hold the heart of Caemlyn, and that was far more important than holding stone and mortar.

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I'm enjoying the Elayne arc much more than I remembered.

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The sun might as well rise in the west as Masema say what he just had. Suddenly Perrin thought that Faile might be safer with the Shaido than he was here and now.

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Faile was more important than anything. Anything! If he burned for it, then he burned. “Take your men east.”

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I have a lot of love for Perrin. And honestly...I'd probably damn the whole world too if my s.o. or my child was taken. But...this is only bearable for (3/4 of) one book.

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favorite WoT trivia

“Sometimes it shows claws,” she said, marking them, longer even than one of the big bears in the Mountains of Mist. “It has a long stride. I think it runs very fast. Do you know what it is?”

He did not—he had never heard of anything with six toes except the cats in the Two Rivers; he had been surprised to find cats elsewhere only had five—but he could make a safe guess.

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About that...

“Too many Shaido,” he said at last. They should all be bottled up in Kinslayer’s Dagger, five hundred leagues distant. But if some of their Wise Ones had learned to Travel . . . Maybe even one of the Forsaken . . . Light, he was rambling like a fool—what would the Forsaken have to do with this?—rambling when he had to think. His brain felt as weary as the rest of him.

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There were enough troubles in the land without calling more down on your head. Let someone else fight and bleed and lose men who would be needed come spring planting. Manetheren’s borders had run almost to where Murandy now stood, and with luck, he could have been into Andor, where Rand had a firm grip, before having to give up the deception. That was changed, now, and he knew the price of changing. A very large price. He was prepared to pay, only it would not be he who paid. He would have nightmares about it, though.

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Nothing else in the world mattered. He felt numb.

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Perrin. Perrin!

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“You are thinking of escape,” she began. No one else opened her mouth, but the Wise One added, “Do not try denying it!” in a scornful voice.

“We will try to serve as we should, Wise One,” Faile said carefully. She kept her head down in her cowl and made sure not to meet the taller woman’s eyes.

"You know something of our ways.” Therava sounded surprised, but it vanished quickly. “Good. But you take me for a fool if you think I believe you will serve meekly. I see spirit in the three of you, for wetlanders. Some never try to escape, but only the dead succeed. The living are always brought back. Always.”

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First Faile icon? It's not her first POV in the series but perhaps first full chapter.

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The purpose of the Doctor's effluence of language.

Cavan Scott

Doctor Who The Ninth Doctor Vol. 1: Weapons of Past Destruction

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So now Perrin plays the Lord card...

“Alliandre swore fealty to me, Arganda. You swore fealty to her, and that makes me your lord. I said I’ll find Alliandre when I find Faile.” The edge of an axe. She was alive. “You question no one, touch no one, unless I say. What you will do is take your men back to your camp, now, and be ready to ride when I give the order. If you’re not ready when I call, you will be left behind.”

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Onward!

Moving into Winter's Heart. What I remember about this book:

(1) Alright, Perrin, gotta save Faile then keep dealing with Masema! ....oh shit.

(2) Rand gets laid...again

(3) Eye roll...eye roll...BUT THAT ENDING!

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Recently finished rereading this one. Overall, I enjoyed it more than expected. But...still pretty sloggy. Some important moments though (cue Egwene's rise to greatness). And some broody moments...

The Bowl of the Winds was great, but felt awkwardly paced across this book and the previous. Then the girls' storyline dwindled.

Also: no Mat! wtf

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Well!

“Well,” Pevara said. Then again, more grimly, “Well!” Her face was all composure, but the glitter in her dark eyes was far from the mischief Seaine remembered as novice and Accepted.