{"id":1750,"date":"2025-08-29T20:18:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2025-08-29T20:18:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:18:25","slug":"chapter-33-a-message-from-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=1750","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 33: A Message from the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"tldr\"><p>The trail leads to the Waygate in Barthanes&#8217; garden, but <em>Machin Shin<\/em> blocks the entrance. Fain left a message with Barthanes about going to Toman Head, and Rand is determined to follow, even if it means using a different Waygate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rand huddles with Mat, Hurin, and Loial in the servants&#8217; area of Lord Barthanes&#8217; manor. Mat hasn&#8217;t sensed the dagger at all, but Rand still has Hurin show him the trail. They go out into the back garden and stop at a walled-off area containing a Waygate. The trail ends here, so they <em>must<\/em> have left using the Ways.<\/p>\n<p>Mat goes off to discretely let Verin and Ingtar know, and the rest of the guys vault over the wall. Determined to demonstrate that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, Rand finds the <em>Avendasora<\/em> leaf and grabs it. The moment the gates start opening, an oozing blackness begins bulging out of the pitch-black world behind the Waygate. <em>Machin Shin<\/em> is waiting for them! Rand panics and drops the leaf. He embraces <em>saidin<\/em>, channeling the One Power to drive the evil presence back until Loial manages to replace the leaf and close the gates.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone checks to make sure their pants are still dry, then they head back to the party to take their leave. Barthanes catches Rand on the way out with a message Fain: he&#8217;s waiting on Toman Head. Back at the inn, the group decides to travel to an alternate Waygate at nearby Stedding Tsofu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trail leads to the Waygate in Barthanes&#8217; garden, but Machin Shin blocks the entrance. Fain left a message with Barthanes about going to Toman Head, and Rand is determined to follow, even if it means using a different Waygate. Rand huddles with Mat, Hurin, and Loial in the servants&#8217; area of Lord Barthanes&#8217; manor. [&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-1750","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\/1750","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=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}