{"id":1719,"date":"2025-08-28T20:59:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2025-08-28T20:59:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:59:35","slug":"chapter-31-on-the-scent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=1719","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 31: On the Scent"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"tldr\"><p>The Horn has been taken to Lord Barthanes&#8217; manor, so Rand finds a use for the invitation after all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This chapter comes from Perrin\u2019s perspective, though there\u2019s no real reason for it. Maybe Jordan felt guilty about leaving him to do jack shit for a book and a half? Perrin spends the whole chapter obsessing &#8212; annoyingly &#8212; over how much everyone has changed and that Rand is, in fact, the <em>Shadowkiller<\/em> the wolves were talking about. Honestly, I\u2019d be upset too: Perrin got the name <em>Young Bull<\/em> while Rand gets to be <em>Shadowkiller<\/em>? That\u2019s like playing superheroes as kids and your friend gets to be Superman while you\u2019re stuck being Jimmy Olsen.<\/p>\n<p>Hurin returns from scouting where the Darkfriends went with the chest. Everyone is shocked at his report &#8212; not only does the trail stay within Cairhien, but it leads directly to Lord Barthanes&#8217; manor. Oh, Lord Rand &#8212; it looks like you&#8217;ve got a party to attend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Horn has been taken to Lord Barthanes&#8217; manor, so Rand finds a use for the invitation after all. This chapter comes from Perrin\u2019s perspective, though there\u2019s no real reason for it. Maybe Jordan felt guilty about leaving him to do jack shit for a book and a half? Perrin spends the whole chapter obsessing [&hellip;]<\/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-1719","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\/1719","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=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1737,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}