The Eye of the World (Book 1) – Chapter 28: “Footprints in Air”

The Wheel of Time - Book 1 - The Eye of the World

Not much happens in the Nynaeve / Moiraine / Lan chapters. This is only the second one, but I’m making sweeping generalizations about them mostly because they amount to the following:

Nyanaeve: “TELL ME ABOUT THIS OR ELSE I’LL CONTINUE BEING ANGRY. I ALSO CANNOT PROMISE THAT I WON’T STILL BE ANGRY ANYWAY.”
Moiraine: “I’m going to calmly tell you that I know nothing about anything, but follow me anyway.”
Lan: “I only know how to say ten words of English.”

In this particular chapter, the group ends up at Whitebridge where, not a day or two ago, Thom, Mat, and Rand found themselves without good fortune. Perhaps if the gleeman actually died there, his rotting carcass would still by on the street for them to find! But he is very much probably definitely still alive maybe. At any rate, Moiraine can sense that two of the boys were here and that there was much fear. It still lingers in the air, you see, and even without their coins she is able to catch a big stinkin’ whiff of it. Meanwhile, Lan can sense a big stinkin’ whiff of Fade droppings. This town is stinky with the recent past, I’ll tell you that much for free.

Nynaeve, of course, wants to switch course and start looking for the one who still has his coin. Moiraine insists — calmly, of course — that as long as the one with the coin has his coin, she doesn’t need to track him down. It’s the other two they need to find right now, and if they’re smart (and they’re only sort of smart… sort of) they’ll be heading to meet up at Caemlyn. In short, Nynaeve, kindly stuff it.

That’s where the chapter ends, and I know the last Mat/Rand chapter ended with them running out of Whitebride hootin’ and hollerin’, so I haven’t yet read what their next plan is. It’s Perrin that wants to go to Caemlyn. Mat and Rand just want their thumbs up their buttholes. But we shall see in time. Or we won’t.

There are still 14.5 books to go!


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