Kinetus

I was just rereading WoK, and I found this in the middle, when Shallan is trying to soulcast for the first time:
"However, she’d found a book the day before that had offered what seemed like a useful tip. It claimed that humming, of all things, could make a Soulcasting more effective."

Did anybody catch this at the time, or did it go over all of our heads?

7 hours ago, TheTuninator said:

As other posters have also said, there's just no way to rationalize away "true terror" from a third-person limited narrator as somehow part of the plan.

Possible explanation for the "true terror": Perhaps Hoid erased all his memories of whatever his plan/contingency was. After all, it would be a bit of a giveaway if Odium saw a memory of Hoid manipulating his own memories. Thus Hoid was not aware of any backup plan during the conversation and felt "true terror".