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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StevenAC" data-source="post: 1331526" data-attributes="member: 12319">I'd agree completely, if that had been what actually happened.  However, your description is (to use a Hitch-Hikerism) almost, but not quite, entirely inaccurate... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />You may want to go back and read that part again -- although don't go looking for it in book 9, since it's actually chapter 31 of book 7 (A Crown of Swords).  Love had nothing to do with the breaking of Nynaeve's block.  The reunion scene was when Nynaeve first realised that her block had been broken, but the actual breaking was caused by the events at the bottom of the river following Moghedien's balefiring of her boat.It was a great fulfillment of a piece of foreshadowing from Lord of Chaos:What RJ did in ACOS was to put her in that underwater scenario, with the cabin sealed and the air running out almost at once.  She was intelligent enough to realise she was out of options, and that realisation was what made it impossible for her to get angry enough to channel, which meant there was nothing left for her to do except surrender -- which broke her block.  The whole chain of cause and effect was beautifully worked out.  I particularly liked the irony that had she been less mature (i.e. had less self-knowledge, as in the first few books) she would probably have ended up making herself furious enough to channel, and escaped -- but with her block still intact.</blockquote>

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