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She thinks she can steal from me, the little human. I can't decide what will be more fun—the hunt or what I will do to her when I catch her. Abel was of perfectly sound body and mind when she looted the Other's corpse. Eight years ago I fell into a secret summer fling with my best friend’s little sister before our lives went in different directions.
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Nikaro accepts this, distracted for a moment, then looks up to see Yumi stumbling backward from the stable nightmare. Painter locates the temporary headquarters of the Dreamwatch in Kilahito. Hikiri answers the door and brings Nikaro inside when he reports that he saw the stable nightmare. Inside, Nikaro meets Tesuaka and some other Dreamwatch members. Tesuaka tells Hikiri to take his statement and send him along. Painter tries to explain that an army of one hundred nightmares will be attacking from the west, but they don't take him seriously.
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Unlike typical nightmares, these don't evaporate once painted, and the painters barely hold on. Hoid explains that they would be overwhelmed if the father machine were not distracted by Yumi, leaving the nightmares more timid than they would otherwise be. One painter, Nanakai, is wounded and Nikaro steps up using bamboo to freeze three nightmares at once. When they next wake up in Yumi's world, Painter insists on feeding himself and rejects Liyun's passive aggressive admonishment. Nikaro explains to her that he has decided to embrace this role, and if the spirits have chosen him then he must do his duty in the way he believes he should. He argues that nothing he does is against his authority as the yoki-hijo.
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In her frustration and anger, Yumi begins to stack miscellaneous items, which impresses Painter. She prays to the spirits for help, and eventually asks for food. Trying to understand their situation better, she asks Painter if anything strange happened before he first came to her world, and he explains about the stable nightmare. Before they get much further, Yumi is overcome with exhaustion and falls asleep. She awakens in her wagon with Painter, incorporeal once again. As you can expect from Sanderson’s writing, his prose remains accessible, engaging, and vivid.
Chosen Ones, as the teens were known, gave everything they had to defeat him. After the Dark One fell, the world went back to normal...for everyone but them. Of the five, Sloane has had the hardest time adjusting. As the Wrack makes its slow, relentless march southwards, it will humble kings, healers, seers, merchants, priests, and warriors. It leaves behind only screams and suffering, and before it, spreads only fear. Lothain, the birthplace of the Wrack, desperately tries to hold itself together as the plague burns across it and its neighbors circle like vultures.
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She also has a task to deal with in the evening--something else she can't remember the specifics of--and excuses herself. Painter had left his apartment and gathered stones, which he now attempts to stack adjacent to the shroud to see if he can make it recede. Though he builds a stack he is proud of, it has no effect on the barrier because he is not Invested like a yoki-hijo. Akane and Tojin confront Yumi and realize she is trying to do Nikaro's job while he is on leave.
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As she sits, Yumi begins to stack pebbles, and Nikaro notices that the shroud is reacting to this and points it out to her. Design approaches as Yumi continues to push the shroud back further, revealing the form of a fellow yoki-hijo. Design urges skepticism, noting it could be a nightmare. They discuss what to do about the machine, and how to destroy it.
With their recommendation and a stolen Skill, Matt begins his journey to the peak of power. Tiernan de Haas doesn’t care about anything anymore. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she’s grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance.
She takes the painter equipment and sets out into the city, first working her way toward the shroud. They walk until Nikaro spots the signs of a nightmare, and they follow. Painter becomes concerned that the foreman may have left his wedge of the city unpatrolled, assuming that Painter was shirking his duties for some time and his area was inactive.
The nightmare moves to attack them and they try to flee. Tojin falls, but before the monster can reach him, Painter arrives. He summons a brush of his own essence and uses the soul of some spilled ink on the ground to paint. At first he tries bamboo, which the nightmare ignores. Nikaro rallies and begins to paint the form of a dog, which causes the nightmare to flee.
For me, this top over Elantris, Warbreaker, and The Emperor’s Soul. Wholesome, romantic, intimate, atmospheric, immersive, and timeless. The inspirations, Aliya Chen’s illustrations, and Sanderson’s brilliant storytelling and creativity are a union resulting in the immaculately crafted Yumi and the Nightmare Painter. This book intensified why Cosmere is one of my favorite fantasy universes. We have the freedom and power to place a personal and intimate value on any specific art.
