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

Title: Cords of Light
Pretty obviously the anchoring ropes of power Dalinar and Navani are using for their experience, but I'm also holding out hope that Cord (Rock’s daughter, guarding Ryan) will show up too.

Icons: Ishar and Jezrien
Bondsmithy things and Stormfather visions is a safe bet, but if we're peeking in at the migration, I'm rather suspecting both of those proto-heralds to appear personally.

Epigraph: This sounds like garbage. A king leaving his people with the “gift of his absence” so they can grow? That's not how government works. Abdication isn't like letting your kids grow up, Nohadon. These excuses are detracting from the rest of your parable.

Yay! Navani's sense for the rhythms makes her the one to guide Dalinar here. 

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Oh, I was wrong; the guards really were the ghostbloods, and not just some random agents but actually Mraize and company. 
How did Mraize see her looking, though? Oh, wait. I was slightly confused in the last chapter, thinking they were talking about the guards Dalinar posted outside the room, not the ones Shallan brought with her. It makes a bit more sense now how they got in position. 

Woah, Radiant can step out of Shallan fully? As a solid lightweaving? That’s pretty awesome. Too bad this came after Veil reintegrated, because I would have loved to see an actual face-to-face between her aspects. It’s a decent force-multiplier in a fight, regardless. 

Also too bad that Radiant can’t wrestle well enough to keep hold of Iyatil. Pattern’s reaction to the fight is kind of hilarious. Testament I can understand, and I’m actually encouraged to see that she has enough of her self present to shy away from violence and hide, but Pattern’s “oh goodness, me” pose is supremely unhelpful.

Shallan grabbing the anti-Light knife and thinking she’s won, only to immediately take a dart to the eye. Iyatil must be thinking “brought a knife to a blowgun fight, did you?”

Lieke died? Doesn’t have a spren or healing? I wasn’t expecting that.
But the windrunners immediately get diverted because of hostages. Typical and disappointing. Iyatil is taking way too much pleasure in manipulating them like that. It makes me wonder quite a bit about what she’s been up to off screen in the time since Shallan first met her.

It’s a dramatic scene, and it kind of drives home the reminder that Iyatil is the babsk and Mraize the trainee, but I’m not sure why Iyatil advertises the fact that Mraize still has his dagger. Was it simply gloating, or was she bringing it up as a way of prompting him to attack the singularity the way he does? I’m guessing the latter, though it could also just be a writing convention to make the villains more engaging.

Trapping Dalinar and Navani in the Spiritual Realm without a tether on what should have been their brief test run does make this much more exciting, though. I’m betting that the “power, wind, and screams” coming toward them is the onrushing vision, but it also makes me wonder who else might have gotten dragged along (presumably all of the people still in the room with Shallan) and if they all ended up in the same place.