{"id":2452,"date":"2025-09-28T23:40:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:52:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:52:25","slug":"chapter-48-following-the-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=2452","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 48: Following the Craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"tldr\"><p>Egwene, Nynaeve, and Elayne arrive at Tear. They find lodging with a Wise Woman, Mother Guenna, who then runs off to fetch a thief-taker that can locate Liandrin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unless Egwene is exaggerating, the journey from Jurene to Tear has been one prolonged puke-fest, and the captain of the\u00a0<em>Darter<\/em> is eager to be rid of the women. The crew unceremoniously dumps their horses&#8217; tack onto the ground, eliciting braid tug number twenty-three from Nynaeve. Welcome to Tear.<\/p>\n<p>Nynaeve confesses that she has <em>no idea<\/em> how to locate Liandrin. Elayne says a thief-taker &#8212; basically a\u00a0<em>Wheel of Time<\/em> P.I. &#8212; would be ideal.\u00a0Unfortunately, in Elayne&#8217;s experience, they usually work for lords, so there is no low-profile way to hire one. They&#8217;ll need a place to stay, but Nynaeve insists on avoiding inns. Liandrin and her friends will be watching those, she says. I don&#8217;t know if she&#8217;s right, but based on what Mat overheard, it&#8217;s a fair bet that <em>someone<\/em> nefarious is actively looking for them. Instead, Nynaeve leads the way to the nearest Wise Woman &#8212; Mother Guenna.<\/p>\n<p>Nynaeve asks Mother Guenna for something to soothe their upset stomachs. With barely a pause, the two women begin talking shop, oblivious to the very real possibility that Egwene and Elayne could perish from sheer boredom. Ladies, I know exactly how you feel.<\/p>\n<p>Nynaeve\u00a0<em>finally<\/em> cuts to the chase and asks Guenna if she has a room to let, but Guenna insists on knowing their business in Tear. Practicing adherence to the Three Oaths, Nynaeve tells her they are chasing after murderers and thieves &#8212; Darkfriends &#8212; who stole from her mother. Then Mother Guenna just\u00a0<em>happens<\/em> to know a thief-taker &#8212; Juilin Sandar &#8212; who is available for them. Guenna hurries out of the house to fetch Juilin.<\/p>\n<p>Once she is gone, Egwene knows exactly what to say.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>EGWENE: You are learning how to be Aes Sedai, <em>Maryim<\/em>. You manipulate people as well as Moiraine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The room goes silent. Elayne walks right up to Egwene and slaps her in the face! Yes! Elayne, our hero! We&#8217;ve all been wanting to do that for two and a half books! Egwene reacts audaciously, forcing Elayne to explain what a five year old would have known.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ELAYNE: Careless talk costs lives, bitch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egwene, Nynaeve, and Elayne arrive at Tear. They find lodging with a Wise Woman, Mother Guenna, who then runs off to fetch a thief-taker that can locate Liandrin. Unless Egwene is exaggerating, the journey from Jurene to Tear has been one prolonged puke-fest, and the captain of the\u00a0Darter is eager to be rid of 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-2452","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\/2452","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=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2468,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/2468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}