This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.

Title: A Coming Storm

Maybe the Wind will elaborate on its warning? 

Icon: Chana

Continuing the no-repeats pattern so far. A reputation for destruction would match a devastating storm. 

Epigraph: apparently the Wind has no future sight, just experience and intuition. I'm not sure how Jasnah is drawing conclusions about how Wind usually behaved compared to how she acted for literally all the time anyone alive knew about her. I mean, sure, you're a historian, but things like “impeccable memory but fanciful interpretation of facts” is a bit out there as a description if you then say “... except for the times she interacted with us.” Maybe I'm misinterpreting this tiny excerpt, and the bit about being uncharacteristically focused “in those days” is referring to a more narrow time span.

Szeth's detachment is really disturbingly off putting here. I can see why Kaladin is nervous around him. 

I'd either forgotten or not known that Night blood was projecting his voice to others nearby rather than just his (/her) bearer. I don't think that was a thing before. (As for pronouns, Kaladin performed the voice as masculine here, but my recollection is that Nightblood developed a more feminine voice after traveling with Azure for however many years. That demonstrated fluidity plus the sword’s problems with memory retention mean that it's hard to assign a preference and trust it to be firm.)

Lift told Nightblood to ask about snacks. Good influence on the potential world-devourer.

Syl and the armor Spren are hanging out with Navani. If they are doing so at every opportunity, it stands to rain that a whole lot of other Spren are doing so as well. The area must be practically saturated with them at this point. I wonder what effects that concentration of interest and attention will have.

Kal is noticing the Wind accompany him now, which seems to be a frequent occurrence, if not quite constant. 

Leyten packed two extra uniforms for Kal. That's smirk worthy. Someone is expecting this jaunt to be less than peaceful and knows Kaladin’s tendencies. 

What's the rock? Tien used to give him those, so that's the obvious guess to it appearing next to the wooden horse, but it's also a stretch to imagine how that would have appeared in his pack. 

Dabbid gave Kal a hug! That's remarkable progress right there. And he's whistling! The honor spren following him around is supposed to be the key reveal here, but it feels like a bonus on to of the main evidence of recovery, in my opinion. 

Syl recognizes the spren as Lusintia, the one who guided Shallan around and didn't show up to say goodbye. Looks like she did change her mind after all, and the dozen spren who left together aren't the sum of those who have decided to help. I hope she gets to talk to Shallan later.

Shallan is very judgy of the younger generation. She doesn't like Lusintia or Leyten’s Spren Ethenia. At least she still responds well to flattery. Good job, Leyten.

Looks like it's Heavenly Ones attacking Shallan's group. It makes me wonder how many of that order of Fused followed Leshwi. She was clearly a leader of some importance among them, but a wholesale defection would be too much to expect. There's at least 8 here in the attacking force. 

Shallan's illusion is a single use distraction, and it's interesting that the Fused immediately identified her as the source. I'm not sure if that's hard to do or not. 

Adolin dropped into the beads, and Shallan dives in to rescue him, of course. To do so she has to inhale the Stormlight of the Lashing used on her, which I was expecting her to do up until she actually did it and I realized I didn't know how hard it is to reclaim kinetic investiture placed by someone else. I'd presume it's not as easy as reclaiming light from your own workings. Have we seen anyone else do this before? I only really noticed because the mental voice saying “Be. Drehy.” tells me that there are identity shenanigans going on. 

Next important question: whose voice was that? It seemed more like an external voice than the internal thoughts of Shallan or one of her aspects. Testament, maybe?