{"id":1955,"date":"2025-09-07T00:11:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T04:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2025-09-13T20:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:46:20","slug":"chapter-4-shadows-sleeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=1955","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 4: Shadows Sleeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"tldr\"><p>A bunch of bullshit happens in Perrin&#8217;s dreams, and the wolves alert him to approaching Trollocs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another Perrin chapter! Except for the Prologue, <em>The Dragon Reborn<\/em> has thus far been told from Perrin&#8217;s point of view. I&#8217;ve grown so used to Jordan handling Perrin like a diseased leper, I almost didn&#8217;t recognize him without the surgical mask.<\/p>\n<p>Perrin is dreaming, so prepare to speed-read or subject yourself to literary torture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dream-chapters.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1961 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dream-chapters.jpg?resize=1024%2C491&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Meme showing what Jordan thinks dream chapters are (deep, mystical art) vs. reality (dumpster fire)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dream-chapters.jpg?resize=1024%2C491&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dream-chapters.jpg?resize=300%2C144&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dream-chapters.jpg?resize=768%2C368&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dream-chapters.jpg?w=1043&amp;ssl=1 1043w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blah blah blah, Perrin won&#8217;t drink the wine with the mystery man in the common room. Blah blah, Lanfear is with him whispering about greatness and glory, but he won&#8217;t drink with her either. Blah blah, Perrin is in the Stone of Tear, unable to touch <em>Callandor<\/em>. Perrin sees men in\u00a0<em>Tel&#8217;aran&#8217;rhiod<\/em>, meeting and arguing. And then a wolf is there, alerting Perrin that the Trollocs have come, and they&#8217;re not talking about the world of dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like Rand&#8217;s little stunt with\u00a0<em>saidin<\/em> lit up their mountain hideout like a Christmas tree, and shit is about to get real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bunch of bullshit happens in Perrin&#8217;s dreams, and the wolves alert him to approaching Trollocs. Another Perrin chapter! Except for the Prologue, The Dragon Reborn has thus far been told from Perrin&#8217;s point of view. I&#8217;ve grown so used to Jordan handling Perrin like a diseased leper, I almost didn&#8217;t recognize him without the [&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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-dragon-reborn","book-the-dragon-reborn"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","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=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}