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Chapter 63 (Practice)
Title: I presume Kaladin will be practicing with the glove?
Icons: double Chach. Obedience? Following instructions to practice? I dunno.
Epigraph: Oh, that kind of sand. I’m not sure why Venli or Navani would have access to sand from Taldain, or who would have told Navani about how it works. Vasher maybe? There’s people around with the knowledge if they felt like sharing, and her scholars could potentially figure it out for themselves, but it’s weird.  It does make me wonder, though, what sort of interaction we could get between that sand and cymatics. It’s almost worthy of a Dor-like effect if you can use that to arrange for specific, significant patterns of invested material.

Syl confesses to her request to Dalinar, about wanting to feel human sadness. I’m glad that Syl and Kal continue to connect on meaningful topics. This companionship is getting deeper. 

Quote

“If we can choose, we can change. If we can’t change, then choice means nothing.”

Syl with the deep thoughts. I like it.

I’m glad Navani was able to keep the appointment to talk to Kal, but I’m pretty surprised about that. I thought Raboniel would be observing her pretty often. 

It amuses me for some reason that they are quibbling over the Highmarshal rank.

Oh, Navani’s got snark now. She’s understandably snippy, but I wonder who she usually aims that at.

Yes, Navani appears to be largely unsupervised. She was able to talk Kaladin through replacing the fabrial rubies in the glove, then wait for him to climb twenty floors and explore to the correct room, then coach him through changing the paired rubies and walk him through using the device. That’s a long time to be standing in the back of her office trying to inconspicuously touch a vein of garnet and talk out loud without being noticed.

Slow healing really is a different beast than the usual instant healing Radiants have access to. It will change the way fights proceed, the balance of risk assessments, etc. but will still allow for eventual recovery from injury.