It’s the day of Logain’s arrival, and Mat refuses to go see it, as on top of all his other lovely personality traits, he’s now convinced that Loial is a Trolloc. Though this does mean that we don’t have to deal with him for the rest of the chapter, so I’m all for it. After hearing that the mysterious beggar, who I’m still predicting is Fain, is still looking for him, Rand sets out alone but has a hell of a time finding a good spot. That brings back some memories.
He’s chased out of his first one when the beggar spots him, forcing him to search all over until he finds a wall on top of a steep hill, which he tears up his hands climbing. Logain appears completely calm and happy, so now I’m guessing he actually wanted to get captured to get inside the palace. And that’s when Rand hears a girl’s voice next to him and falls off. Huh. My one real guess for this is Min, but that still leaves a lot to be explained.
Until that ending, this is mostly an excuse to show us more of Caemlyn and the growing discontent over Morgase’s trust of the Aes Sedai, and it builds that up nicely, so that the cliffhanger really comes out of nowhere and leaves your head spinning. And if that guy is Fain, what the hell is he doing? I suddenly have more questions than ever before, and for now that’s a good thing.
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