{"id":1530,"date":"2025-08-17T21:46:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2025-08-17T21:48:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:48:46","slug":"chapter-19-beneath-the-dagger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=1530","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 19: Beneath the Dagger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Egged on by Selene, Rand and Loial sneak into Padan Fain’s camp, steal the Horn and the dagger, and slay several Trollocs as they escape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While Rand’s group watches for Padan Fain’s passage, Selene flirts with the men mercilessly.<\/p>\n

RAND: Selene, why are you digging through my bags?<\/p>\n

SELENE: It’s my dress, Lord Rand. I’ve been wearing it too long and I need to take it off and brush it. Perhaps I could wear one of your manly shirts?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rand gives her a shirt from his saddlebag and gallantly turns around. When she is finished, he immediately begins ogling her legs. Damn, this dude really<\/em> needs to get laid.<\/p>\n

RAND: Ah… I…<\/p>\n

SELENE: Oh, thank you, Lord Rand. You are destined for great things.<\/p>\n

RAND: Ah… uh…<\/p>\n

HURIN: Lord Rand! They– [drops to his knees<\/em>] Forgive me, my lady. I shall go flog myself.<\/p>\n

RAND: Hurin, what is it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hurin reports seeing fire a few miles down the slopes. At Selene’s urging, Rand takes Loial to check out the encampment. When they get close enough, it is apparent that everyone is asleep<\/em>. Even the sentries. Where did they learn to do their jobs? The Saturday Morning Cartoons School of Villainy?<\/p>\n

Rand is basically able to stroll into the camp, pluck the dagger from the top of the chest, direct a lumbering Ogier to pick up the chest holding the Horn of Valere, and walk out. They’re a good thirty seconds gone before the alarm is raised, and Rand cuts down all the Trollocs that get in their way like their made of paper mache.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>When they get back to their comp, Selene knows exactly how to open the chest. She’s about to reach in when Rand plucks the Horn out and holds it above his head to pose for the book’s cover shot. Then he tucks it back in the chest, along with the Shadar Logoth dagger.<\/p>\n

The next thing Selene says, I shit you not, is: “And now I mean to finish what is left of my night’s sleep.” Oh, sure. An army of Trollocs commanded by a deranged lunatic is actively searching the area for us, so of course, let’s get some sleep! Luckily, Rand is still capable of independent thought, so he insists on putting as much distance between them and Fain as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Egged on by Selene, Rand and Loial sneak into Padan Fain’s camp, steal the Horn and the dagger, and slay several Trollocs as they escape. While Rand’s group watches for Padan Fain’s passage, Selene flirts with the men mercilessly. RAND: Selene, why are you digging through my bags? SELENE: It’s my dress, Lord Rand. I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-great-hunt","book-the-great-hunt"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}