Hello and welcome to this week’s installment of Reading the Wheel of Time. We have tricks with knives and tricks with silver arrows, a new hint about the Forsaken’s plan for Rand, and difficult, painful days both for Nynaeve and for Liandrin. Let’s get to it!
Chapter 33 opens with Nynaeve standing blindfolded, leaning against a board while Thom practices knife throwing. She curses herself for agreeing to participate in this, focusing on her annoyance and what she will do to Thom and to Valan Luca if she is so much as nicked. When it’s over she snatches off the scarf and marches over to them, but Luca immediately starts complimenting her beauty and bravery, and going on about how he will call the act “Rose Among Thorns.” Nynaeve tells him that she is no braver than she has to be, mollified a little until Luca again brings up the subject of the red dress he wants her to wear. She explodes at him again; she is definitely not going to wear such a revealing dress in public. S