Time to get up! It’s morning in the Blight and there’s a lot of lovely Blight ground to cover!

They keep traversing the awful landscape where the trees are gnarled and dead-looking. When they witness a tree literally reach over to an animal and kill it, I would’ve literally NOPE’d my way out of there. Moirane tells the group to stay close, which goes without saying. A tree that eats animals. What the fuck is the world coming to?

Most of the rest of the chapter is an action sequence where various horrifying creatures start attacking and the group counters and defends themselves. Mat does that thing where he screams his warcries in the ancient language that he himself doesn’t know he can do until he does it! Then they talk about Worms, which are able to scare all the other Blight creatures, but the Worms themselves are scary, and the Worms are also scared of what’s in the mountains, and all this is pretty fucked up.

When it seems like they’re all gonna die horribly, the land suddenly becomes a verdant meadow of non-gross flora and fauna. It’s where the Green Man lives. If you excuse the Harry Potter reference, the Green Man’s oasis is like the Room of Requirement. It shows up when you need it. Or, rather, you show up to it when you need it. The location of it never actually changes, I suppose.

The Green Man seems like a giant piles of weeds to me. He’s twice as tall as Loial, and he’s a biggun’. He has hazelnut eyes, which sounds frightening. He has long grass hair, so he can become a member of Whitesnake. I’m sorry, how about Blightsnake? Now that’s a bit of humor for you. Only one feature mars his otherwise perfect visage: a scar of dead, withered, brown vines running up his cheek.

Come with the Green Man, children. He will take you to the Eye of the World!

Just between you and me, I wouldn’t go anywhere with this creep.