The boat carrying Egwene, Elayne, and Nynaeve gets stuck in a mud flat, so they continue the journey south on foot.
Egwene, Elayne, and Nynaeve are aboard the Blue Crane. Like Mat, they have taken passage down the Erinin. The captain believes all three of them are Aes Sedai, and they don’t bother to correct him. Cairhien lies on one side of the river, and the frequent fires dotting the land lend credence to rumors of the civil war. All three women have tried the Dream ter’angreal, but no revelations have been forthcoming.
Twenty-two violations.
The boat has an idiot at the tiller who runs the hull into a mud flat, jarring the vessel to a sudden stop. Nynaeve tugs and jerks her braid in the same paragraph, and per the rules, that brings the braid violation count to twenty-two. When it becomes evident that the Blue Crane is not going anywhere, Nynaeve insists that they debark on the Cairhien side and walk downriver to an Andor-held town a few miles away. The boat is scarcely out of sight before a person pops out of the bushes in front of them.