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This week in Reading the Wheel of Time, it’s adventures with Draghkar and suspicious Maidens. I’m not sure I trust Melindhra as far as Mat could throw her, and Sammael possibly several Forsaken is up to something.
Also, what’s with all the comments about short guys? Short guys are great.
Chapter 22 opens with Mat in his tent, getting a massage from Melindhra. She remarks that he is well-muscled for a short man, prompting Mat into disgruntled musings about how he’s only short by Aiel standards and then into memories of when he was much taller. He shivers, thinking of the earliest of the memories planted in his mind, and Melindhra adds more wood to the fire before continuing her ministrations. Mat thinks about her possessiveness towards him, and how he supposes he’ll have to get married and have a house and family someday. He thinks of it as being “shackled to one spot for the rest of his life” and considers that no woman ever liked her husband having a drink or a gambl