{"id":2416,"date":"2025-09-27T23:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:34:10","slug":"chapter-45-caemlyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=2416","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 45: Caemlyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"tldr\"><p>Mat and Thom arrive in Caemlyn. At the Queen&#8217;s Blessing, Mat decides to sneak into the palace to deliver Elayne&#8217;s letter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mat and Thom ride into Caemlyn. Having been ill the last time he was here, Mat remembers little of the city. Thom wants to head straight to the Queen&#8217;s Blessing to recover from the trip, but Mat insists on heading straight for the palace to deliver the letter. He tries to smooth-talk the man in charge, but when he mentions bearing a letter from Tar Valon, they chase him off with accusations of being a Darkfriend.<\/p>\n<p>At the Queen&#8217;s Blessing, Thom and Master Gill are in the library. Mat tells them what happened at the palace. The older men suggest it might have something to do with Morgase&#8217;s new advisor, Gaebril. Jesus, what is it with Morgase and men whose names begin with G? Gareth, Gawyn, Galad, and now Gaebril? I&#8217;m not saying this is an intentional act of mental sabotage, but it sure feels like one.<\/p>\n<p>Mat decides that if his boyish charm can&#8217;t get him into the palace, he&#8217;ll just sneak in. Gill tells him he&#8217;d need crazy luck to pull it off, but Mat grabs the dice cup and calls his bluff. The dice all fall showing a single pip &#8212; the best throw or the worst, depending on the game. Before he can talk himself out of it, Mat heads back to the Palace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mat and Thom arrive in Caemlyn. At the Queen&#8217;s Blessing, Mat decides to sneak into the palace to deliver Elayne&#8217;s letter. Mat and Thom ride into Caemlyn. Having been ill the last time he was here, Mat remembers little of the city. Thom wants to head straight to the Queen&#8217;s Blessing to recover from 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-2416","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\/2416","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=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}