{"id":2341,"date":"2025-09-23T20:54:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2025-09-23T20:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:54:22","slug":"chapter-37-fires-in-cairhien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=2341","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 37: Fires in Cairhien"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"tldr\"><p>The boat carrying Egwene, Elayne, and Nynaeve gets stuck in a mud flat, so they continue the journey south on foot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Egwene, Elayne, and Nynaeve are aboard the <em>Blue Crane<\/em>. Like Mat, they have taken passage down the Erinin. The captain believes all three of them are Aes Sedai, and they don&#8217;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 <em>ter&#8217;angreal<\/em>, but no revelations have been forthcoming.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2125\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BraidTugAccepted.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2125\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2125\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BraidTugAccepted.png?resize=219%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A closeup of a woman's hand tightly gripping a thick braid of brown hair. The woman is wearing a dress whose cuff shows the rainbow stripes of an Accepted.\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BraidTugAccepted.png?resize=219%2C300&amp;ssl=1 219w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BraidTugAccepted.png?resize=747%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 747w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BraidTugAccepted.png?resize=768%2C1052&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BraidTugAccepted.png?w=864&amp;ssl=1 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twenty-two violations.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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\u00a0<em>and<\/em> jerks her braid in the same paragraph, and per <a href=\"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=2113\">the rules<\/a>, that brings the braid violation count to twenty-two. When it becomes evident that the\u00a0<em>Blue Crane<\/em> is not going anywhere, Nynaeve insists that they debark\u00a0<em>on the Cairhien side<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t bother to correct [&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-2341","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\/2341","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=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}