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This is another of those chapters where there is so much going on that I am unsure of whether or not I can get through everything I would like to say about it in one post... 
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the background info as the chapter begins:
* Linden, her party, and the Humbled leave Revelstone on Ranyhyn back
* Linden expects to be attacked by one or more of her many enemies (Lord, Foul, Nasty Kasty, Roger Covenant, or the Harrow)
* the Humbled do not trust Linden
* Linden has been repeatedly warned away from her destination - Andelain - by both enemies and friends
* the party will be passing by First Woodhelven, Sunder & Hollian's first attempt to make one of the great tree dwellings of old
* Sunder and Hollian also made a great forest in a ring around Andelain, and that makes for difficult travel
* the party has to be very careful of where they stop for the sake of Anele, as they do not want him to be possessed
when the crazy action starts:
* the party detects a caesure
* the caesure is being directed by Esmer, who has made another of his nasty storms as well
* the caesure destroys First Woodhelven
* Linden and her party decide to aid the newly homeless, shocked people who lived there
* the caesure's course changes to come right at Linden and her party
* Esmer is using the Fall to chase and try to destroy the Harrow (and God help anyone else who gets in the way!!!) 
* Linden challenges to caesure and stops it
* Anele throws himself off his Ranyhyn onto bare dirt and is possessed by Nasty Kasty, who now will know where the party is - but Liand uses the orcrest to expel Kastenessen
* the ur-viles and waynhim show up willing to fight both Esmer and the Harrow to protect Linden
* The Harrow knows how to easily kill all demondim spawn, and begins killing them as a demonstration of his power
* Esmer and the Harrow hate each other
* suddenly and out of nowhere, Roger Covenant shows up with an army of cavewights
* a chaotic several way battle breaks out (the demondim spawn, for example attack the Harrow, Esmer, and the cavewights all at once) but the Harrow only fights RC and the cavewights, RC fights everyone excpet the cavewights, Esmer fights the Harrow etc. etc. (you almost need a scorecard for all of this 
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* to make matters even worse, an army of kresh being commanded by a Raver shows up and starts slaughtering the poor surviving villagers
* Linden, who along with her party has been tying to fight RC, the cavewights, and now the kresh, while keeping helpless Anele alive, calls for Nom
* the Harrow tells Linden he can take her to her son
* six sandgorgons show up and take care of business with the cavewights and chase off Roger
* Linden and Liand take on the pack with the Staff of Law and the orcrest
* Esmer vanishes, so the demondim spawn also leave
* finally the raver and surviving kresh flee
I'm exhausted just reading it. 
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More tomorrow, when I am a bit more awake.
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