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The Wheel of Time Recap: Party Hard
It’s been too long since we’ve spent time with the trollocs.
It gives everyone — Mat and his reluctant friend Thom, a drunken Nynaeve and Min, and especially Alayne, who shakes what her mama gave her in a fashion that’s simultaneously sexy and very endearing — a chance to lay the quest aside and cut loose. (A lot of this information was immortalized in a colossal bit of statuary that has now largely crumbled into the sea, leaving behind only the Shackled Man; this seems like something Alayne should have learned in her research, as Thom himself points out, but it’s kind of up to the writers to decide whether or not she did, so I’m giving her a pass.) This is when the Forsaken called Sammael chooses to launch an attack, but the battle-scarred bad guy and his evil Aiel followers are quickly mowed down, not just by Rand but also by Aviendha, who bursts in wielding magic flaming spears.
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