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Chapter 59 (The Lattice of a Growing Crystal)
Title: Growing, huh? I misread it as glowing at first glance.
Icons: Not sure what Vev is doing, but Nale is there so I’m guessing Kaladin is in for a tough fight.
Epigraph: I feel stupid for my comments on the last chapter’s epigraph. This one makes it obvious that I was right about this being Venli’s early research journal. Presumably from the title and subject, it’s her research into warform. Not sure how I didn’t make that connection earlier. It’s right there in the name. My problem in the last chapter was that “modern scientific theory” doesn’t sound like something listeners would develop in their apparently subsistence agrarian society. I shouldn’t have assumed that phrase ruled out listeners. 
Now that I know what’s going on with the book, though, I wonder even more about the adoption of the undertext approach to writing. Why did Venli incorporate this Alethi tradition, and possibly even Alethi writing? Is her use of Alethi a way to disguise things from other listeners? I don’t think I understand that piece of it yet.

I like Kaladin’s nonlethal approach at this point.
Oh, and he gets to do grappling hook tricks with his flight unavailable. That’s fun and cinematic. Go Kal!
I’m a little surprised the singers he faces are culturally Azish. They certainly fight well enough.

That was a fun chase scene, and I got to the end and realized I hadn’t said anything about it. Must have been engaging :-)

Exhausted, power suppressed Kal up against Pursuer and Lady of Wishes seems like not a happy day. I’m a little surprised there aren’t any mooks there with them, though.

Oh, and they expected Kal to come and prepared for him. That’s definitely a bad matchup.

Well, Kaladin lost more quickly than I expected, but he had some good moves. And is this Leshwi coming to the rescue or someone else? Oh, it’s Syl’s disguise again. Good work, Syl. You even fooled me!

She’s very confident that a Windrunner can’t hurt her if she’s not an immediate threat. That seems like it could be a miscalculation. But it also looks like she’s got some of the same theories about Windrunner resistance being due to proximity to Honor.

The stick-him-to-the-floor trick is a good tactic against a teleporter, but it’s not sustainable with the mismatch in light resources. Locking him in a closet is an even better idea. Yup, it worked, and we got to have a classing leap through closing doors moment. Very nice.

He broke the gem, but now he’s stuck without a good way to escape. And Raboniel is living up to her Lady of Wishes reputation. “Oh, don’t worry, it’s not poison. I’m just stabbing you for science.”
 
Oh, the growing crystal of the title is not the one in the fabrial, just a metaphorical one that is growing in a predetermined natural way.

And she just let him go, so she can study him later. Doesn’t even need to catch and cage him, she’s that confident/patient. Creepy.