The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time, #4)
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Read between April 7 - April 24, 2024
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The idea of this white-haired old fellow looking after Rand.
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HES BEEN DOING MORE THAN U HAVE
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She was not jealous, exactly, but Lan had been her sword arm, her shield and companion for too many years for her to give him up lightly.
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WELL HES WILLING TO ABANDON U TO TGE WOLVES FOR HER SO U BETTER GIVE HIM UP SOON
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She had kept too many secrets herself, made him follow her on blind trust too often. Let it be her turn. She had to learn that he was not a puppet.
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EXACTLY and now shes all pissy bc he wont tell her stuff
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“Ask, first. I’m not your pet dog that you can do whatever you want to whenever you want.” He
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RIGHT TELL HER KING
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Egwene made that vexed sound again. Childish, and ungrateful to boot.
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NO SHES A CONTROLLING BITCH
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Lan left his own head unprotected to the sun; nothing seemed to faze the man.
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I love him
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Rand did look a great deal like the Aielmen, with his height and gray-blue eyes and reddish hair, but this was ridiculous.
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oh ur like clinically stupid
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This was plainly as much of a surprise to the Aes Sedai as to herself.
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ur both dumb then
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Mat began with his belt knife and kept right on, pulling knives from his sleeves and under his coat, even one from down the back of his neck, fashioning a pile that seemed to impress even the Aiel women.
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love him
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There is much honor in him. I knew from the dream that if you came, it was almost certain Aan’allein would as well, but I did not know he obeyed you.”
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ALMOST
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Burn me. Burn me. I do not want to do this.
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hes so real
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Most avoided the Jenn as they avoided the accursed Lost Ones, who wandered searching for the songs they claimed would bring back lost days.
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ah okay so the peaceful tinkers r actually aiel
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The Aiel was chewing, and bloody froth dripped onto his chest.
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is he um...eating his own tongue???
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Was he supposed to stand there and let her hit him to her heart’s content? She had mounted Swallow and sat there, very stiff-backed, refusing to sit gingerly, staring at him with an unreadable expression.
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DID HE SPANK HER???
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that almost imperceptible scent of rankness was irritating.
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bruh didnt u literally say there r no smells here
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One of Faile’s knives blossomed in an all-too-human eye above a tusked snout.
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i feel like the trollocs r actually humans
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Aemon al Caar al Thorin,
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thorin sounds suspiciously close to thor
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Maybe he would find wolves tomorrow. He did not want to think of the alternatives.
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IF THESE MOTHERFUCKERS KILLED PUPPIES???
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Perrin laughed noisily and made his voice loud enough to carry. “I do. Women!”
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JUST ASK HER TO JOIN AND THEN U CAN HAVE FUN TOO PERRIN
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May you know good hunting, Young Bull, and shes to give you many cubs.
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omg bc shes a hunter
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“They are dead, my boy,”
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HIS WHOLE FAMILY???
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And Mat’s mother and sisters … . They’re alive, too.” “Hiding?” “There is no need to go into that,”
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WHY ARE THE WOMEN SEPARATE I DONT LIKE THAT
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Seizing his head, she pulled his face into her midriff. “Your mother is dead,” she said quietly. “Your father is dead. Your sisters are dead, and your brother. Your family is dead, and you cannot change it. Certainly not by dying yourself. Let yourself grieve. Don’t hold it inside where it can fester.”
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love hdf
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tucking them behind the golden wolf’s-head buckle of his sword belt.
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well that certainly cant be important
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Mat was a great complainer at small discomforts; if he was silent now, it meant he was in real pain.
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hes so real
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Somewhere he had heard that name, but where? And he had a brother. A half-brother.
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im sure this will never come up again
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claimed this man looked like Shaiel, and he would not raise his spear when the man ran him through.”
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is this the brother
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I have the feeling he doesn’t see people anymore, only pieces on a stones board.”
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hes so paul coded
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“I promised I would keep her secret, and the first chance I get, I let my tongue run wild. Well, I don’t suppose you will harm her or her sisters.
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BITCH??? U HAD ONE JOB???
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“You have no right to—” “I have every right! You gave me your word.
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ugh she loooves to say "you have no right" when she is in the wrong
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She had given her word, but this was all so unfair.
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UR SUCH A WHINY BITCH
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He found himself missing Min. Min had never made him look a fool.
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oh jesus this again
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“You belong to Elayne, Rand al’Thor.
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LITERALLY NO HE DOESNT???
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Aviendha noticed, and glared at Rand.
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ITS NOT HIS FAULT HES HOT AND FAMOUS
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Strange that the ability to kill with the Power, to stop a heart or boil blood in the veins, should be so closely linked to Healing.
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yeah so nynaeve is gonna be ablee to fucking murk people lmao
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The raven’s eyes were black sapphires. A raven, symbol of the Imperial family; the Tower of Ravens, symbol of Imperial justice.
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what a coincidence mat got sword w ravens on it
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Court of the Nine Moons
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and so this is the woman hes gonna marry
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and her dress was silk, and as transparent as Rendra’s veil. Berelain would have blushed. So did Nynaeve, thinking of Lan seeing her in it. It took
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HAHAHA SHES SO REAL
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“He looked like Lan. He looked like Lan, and he tried to kill me.”
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OH NO
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the morning she wished she were dead.
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hangovers will do that
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“You are quite beautiful, child. Perhaps you should beware of Perrin. I never see him but in the company of beautiful girls.”
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damn she called him a whore
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“How did you ever come to like a common blacksmith?” “The word is ‘love,’ Perrin Aybara.”
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omg
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He could not be Malkieri; Lan was the last living Malkieri.
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unless hes not living
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“You’ve seen the tiganza, have you? Someday, if you are good, I may dance the sa’sara for you, and show you what a dance really is.” Ila gasped in recognition of the name, and Faile went even redder than she had inside.
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LMAO
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there isn’t any reason for you to dance it,” he said quietly. “My heart and fortune, such as they are, already lie at your feet.”
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when did he become so smooth
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Perrin felt a right fool with that thing trailing after him.
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man imagine what RAND has been dealing w
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Nynaeve had a remarkable dislike for admitting she was wrong.
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relatable
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Oh, Light, they stilled me! They stilled me!
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that is actually insane
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dish of bright yellow kernels and bits of pulpy red that Aviendha called zemai and t’mat,
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corn! and tomatoes!
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Rand could not see Elayne and Min agreeing to such an agreement; he wondered why he had even thought of it.
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see this makes me feel like they might