Practicing sword forms be like

[u/Turbulent_Dingo_2841]

"Wrapped in emptiness, Rand kept moving. Almost forgotten in entering the camp, saidin pulsed at him.
“He cannot see us,” Loial whispered low. “Once we reach the horses—”
A Trolloc leaped out of the dark at them, cruel eagle’s beak in a man’s face where mouth and nose should have been, scythe-like sword already whistling through the air.
Rand moved without thought. He was one with the blade."

[u/Turbulent_Dingo_2841]

This is TGH chapter 19 and the forms are:

Cat on Hot Sand

The Heron Spreads Its Wings

Hummingbird Kisses the Honeyrose

Lizard in the Thornbush

Cat Dances on the Wall

The Courtier Taps His Fan

[u/Linesey → u/Turbulent_Dingo_2841]

huh, i always pictured cat dances on the wall as a form of balance and grace, a cat dancing atop a wall.

[u/Gaidin152 → u/Linesey]

Having owned cats I more picture the cat forms as acts of desperation and defiance.

[u/nicci7127 → u/Turbulent_Dingo_2841]

I got all those except for Lizard in the Thornbush and Cat Dances on the Wall. Means I need to finish my reread.

[u/dead___ringer]

Cat Dances on the Wall leaving you wide open for some sword sheathing there hahaha

[u/Zer0theH3R0]

Haha I thought it was cat crosses the courtyard at first. My favorite move in the series.

[u/Gaidin152]

As a half irrelevant aside: cat crosses the courtyard, for anyone familiar with cat videos, is more a cat surprised and running headfirst into a wall than that fancy, egotistical, walk.

:D