We get another short interlude here, and we also get to catch up with Nynaeve as she, Lan, and Moiraine get to Whitebridge. Besides that, there's nothing much new to talk about, which sort of frustrates me.
The potential for Nynaeve's character has me curious and intrigued, but her development seems to have stalled out a bit, having not really progressed all that much since the last time the story focused on her. She's still hostile to Moiraine and only traveling with her and Lan because they're the best hope she has of finding the other Emond's Fielders. Indeed, when they talk about the subject after gathering what information they can find on what happened to the place (which isn't much), Nynaeve takes offense to the fact that Moiraine didn't spare a thought to Egwene, who's in just as much danger as the boys despite the fact that Ba'alzamon doesn't have the same interest in her.
Everything about Lan and Moiraine seems to make Nynaeve even more irritated. She's pretty obviously got an inferiority complex, and still refuses to have anything more to do with them than is strictly necessary. Again, that's the state she was in the last time we saw her; if this chapter weren't intercut with them crossing the White Bridge, arriving in the town, and questioning the people, this chapter would be a bit extraneous.
Moiraine decides to go after Perrin, the one she's still sure to find, as he still has the coin she gave him. She knows that Rand and Mat went east, in the direction of Caemlyn, because the tracking spell apparently has a lingering effect even when they're separated from the coins. It reminds me that I want to find out more of the basics on magic in this world, just so I know it doesn't just do whatever's convenient to the plot.
And so they leave, with Nynaeve still treating Moiraine like a predator of young women. Oh well. Time to shift focus again.
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