{"id":4043,"date":"2026-03-07T20:55:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2026-03-07T20:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:55:48","slug":"chapter-12-an-old-pipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=4043","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 12: An Old Pipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"tldr\"><p>Gareth Bryne has tracked Siuan&#8217;s group to Lugard, and deduces that they must have headed west.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gareth Bryne has tracked Siuan&#8217;s group <em>all the way<\/em> from Kore Springs to Lugard. Wow. That&#8217;s kind of like following someone across multiple state lines because they shoplifted a candy bar. He&#8217;ll be the first to admit he&#8217;s getting too old for this shit, but he is so fixated on discovering why Siuan broke her oath that he will follow her however long and however far it takes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4044\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/in-the-princess-bride-humperdinck-identifies-iocaine-powder-v0-1tfnkslj84n01.webp?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4044\" class=\"wp-image-4044 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/in-the-princess-bride-humperdinck-identifies-iocaine-powder-v0-1tfnkslj84n01.webp?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A still from The Princess Bride where Prince Humperdinck is smelling the empty vial of iocaine powder -- which we know to be odorless -- and declaring that it was definitely filled with iocaine powder..\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/in-the-princess-bride-humperdinck-identifies-iocaine-powder-v0-1tfnkslj84n01.webp?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/in-the-princess-bride-humperdinck-identifies-iocaine-powder-v0-1tfnkslj84n01.webp?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">They&#8217;ve gone west. I&#8217;ll stake my life on it.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And boy, is Bryne a miracle worker when it comes to tracking. Somehow, between speaking with Mistress Tharne and the Whitecloaks Siuan encountered, he is deduces that they must have gone west. Lucky guess, dude.<\/p>\n<p>That is literally all there is to say about this chapter. It&#8217;s a conspicuously short and uncomplicated one for a Robert Jordan book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth Bryne has tracked Siuan&#8217;s group to Lugard, and deduces that they must have headed west. Gareth Bryne has tracked Siuan&#8217;s group all the way from Kore Springs to Lugard. Wow. That&#8217;s kind of like following someone across multiple state lines because they shoplifted a candy bar. He&#8217;ll be the first to admit he&#8217;s getting [&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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fires-of-heaven","book-the-fires-of-heaven"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043","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=4043"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4051,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions\/4051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}