So, we’ve just had a four month Time Skip, so what better time to check in at Tar Valon? All the girls have made progressions in using the Power, though none are allowed to use it unsupervised, and we also get a quick reference to Galldrian having died. That’s anticlimactic. So how will we find out why he was after Domon?
Liandrin comes in, and tells them Rand’s group has reappeared, and Egwene and Nynaeve have to come with her to Toman Head to help them. And they can’t tell anyone else because they might be Black Ajah, so isn’t that convenient? Min and Elayne announce that they’re coming too, which should be pretty fun, though I don’t know how they think they’re going to get Liandrin to agree to it.
The all girl road trip is a pretty promising idea, even if there’s not much space left in the book for it. And I’m now calling that Liandrin is the real Black Ajah, and is bringing Egwene and Nynaeve to use against Rand, and Min and Elayne will be the Spanner in the Works to that. Other than that, we basically have Jordan’s awkward attempt to write a group of girls hanging out. Technically the chapter passes the Bechdel Test as they talk about several things besides boys (the exposition about those four months has to go somewhere) but there’s still several times where who has a crush on who is randomly shoved in, like he doesn’t trust us to remember that they’re girls. At least Nynaeve manages to not bring up Lan the whole time.
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