{ "format": "dialogue-attribution-labels-v1", "entities": { "1": "Other", "2": "Kaladin", "3": "Syl", "4": "Shallan", "5": "Pattern" }, "chapters": [ { "file": "/home/j2/tds3p-rsvp-reader/Wind and Truth/Chapter 1.txt", "paragraphs": [ { "paragraph_index": 1, "text": "I should have known I was being watched. All my life, the signs were there.", "entity": "Other" }, { "paragraph_index": 2, "text": "- From Knights of Wind and Truth, page 1", "entity": null }, { "paragraph_index": 5, "text": "He stood at his window on the first morning of the month. Sunlight streamed into the room around him, wind tickling his hair. He shouldn't have felt good. Yes, he'd helped protect Urithiru- but that victory had come at an agonizing cost. Beyond that, Dalinar had made a deal with the enemy: in just ten days, the champion of Honor and the champion of Odium would decide the fate of all Roshar.", "entity": null }, { "paragraph_index": 7, "text": "That should have made him an anxious, stewing pot of nerves. Instead he tipped his head back, sun warm on his skin, and acknowledged that while he didn't feel great, someday he would feel great again.", "entity": null }, { "paragraph_index": 13, "text": "\"Can't you make yourself any size?\" he asked, checking his jacket cuffs.", "entity": "Kaladin" }, { "paragraph_index": 14, "text": "\"Within reason.\"", "entity": "Syl" }, { "paragraph_index": 15, "text": "\"Whose reason?\"", "entity": "Kaladin" }, { "paragraph_index": 16, "text": "\"No idea,\" she said. \"Tried to get as big as a mountain once. It involved lots of grunting and thinking like rocks. Really big rocks. Biggest I could manage was a very small mountain- small enough to fit in this room, with the tip brushing the ceiling.\"", "entity": "Syl" }, { "paragraph_index": 17, "text": "\"Then you could be tall enough to tower over me,\" he said. \"Why do you usually make yourself shorter?\"", "entity": "Kaladin" }, { "paragraph_index": 18, "text": "\"It just feels right,\" she said.", "entity": "Syl" }, { "paragraph_index": 19, "text": "\"That's your explanation for basically everything.\"", "entity": "Kaladin" }, { "paragraph_index": 20, "text": "\"Yup!\" She poked him. He could barely feel it. Even at this size, she was insubstantial in the Physical Realm. \"Uniform? I thought you weren't going to wear one anymore.\"", "entity": "Syl" }, { "paragraph_index": 21, "text": "He hesitated, then pulled the jacket down at the bottom to smooth the wrinkles across the sides. \"It just feels right,\" he admitted, meeting her eyes in the mirror.", "entity": "Kaladin" }, { "paragraph_index": 23, "text": "\"Someone is having a good day,\" she said, poking him again.", "entity": "Syl" }, { "paragraph_index": 24, "text": "\"Bizarrely,\" Kaladin said. \"Considering.\"", "entity": "Kaladin" }, { "paragraph_index": 25, "text": "\"At least the war is almost over,\" she said. \"One more contest. Nine days.\"", "entity": "Syl" }, { "paragraph_index": 26, "text": "True. If Dalinar won, Odium had agreed to withdraw from Alethkar and Herdaz- though he could keep other lands he controlled, like Iri and Jah Keved. If Odium won, they were forced to cede Alethkar to the enemy. Plus there was a greater cost. If Dalinar lost, he had to join Odium, become Fused, and help conquer the cosmere. Kaladin wanted to think that the Radiants wouldn't follow as well, but he wasn't certain. So many people thirsted for war, even without the influence of an Unmade. Storms, he'd felt it too.", "entity": null }, { "paragraph_index": 27, "text": "\"Syl,\" he said, dropping his smile. \"I'm sure more people are going to die. Perhaps people I care about, but I can't be there to help them. Dalinar will have to choose someone else to be champion and- \"", "entity": "Kaladin" }, { "paragraph_index": 28, "text": "\"Kaladin Stormblessed,\" she said, rising higher into the air, arms folded. Though she wore a fashionable havah, she left her hair white-blue, flowing free, waving and shifting in the wind. The ... nonexistent wind. \"Don't you dare talk yourself into being miserable.\"", "entity": "Syl" }, { "paragraph_index": 29, "text": "\"Or what?\"", "entity": "Kaladin" }, { "paragraph_index": 30, "text": "\"Or I,\" she thundered, \"shall make silly faces at you. As I alone can.\"", "entity": "Syl" }, { "paragraph_index": 31, "text": "\"They aren't silly,\" he said, shivering.", "entity": "Kaladin" }, { "paragraph_index": 32, "text": "\"They're hilarious.\"", "entity": "Syl" }, { "paragraph_index": 33, "text": "\"Last time you made a tentacle come out of your forehead.\"", "entity": "Kaladin" }, { "paragraph_index": 34, "text": "\"Highbrow comedy.\"", "entity": "Syl" }, { "paragraph_index": 35, "text": "\"Then it slapped me.\"", "entity": "Kaladin" }, { "paragraph_index": 36, "text": "\"Punch line. Obviously. All the humans in the world, and I picked the one without a taste for refined humor.\"", "entity": "Syl" }, { "paragraph_index": 38, "text": "\"It does feel warm,\" he said, \"to have finally figured a few things out. To let go of the weight and step out from the shadow. I know darkness will return, but I think ... I think I'll be able to remember better than before.\"", "entity": "Kaladin" }, { "paragraph_index": 39, "text": "\"Remember what?\"", "entity": "Syl" }, { "paragraph_index": 40, "text": "He Lashed himself upward, floating until he was eye level with her. \"That days like this exist too.\"", "entity": "Kaladin" }, { "paragraph_index": 42, "text": "\"I wish I could show Teft,\" Kaladin said. \"I feel his loss like a hole in my own flesh, Syl.\"", "entity": "Kaladin" }, { "paragraph_index": 43, "text": "\"I know,\" she said softly.", "entity": "Syl" }, { "paragraph_index": 49, "text": "And he would remember.", "entity": null }, { "paragraph_index": 51, "text": "Kaladin ...", "entity": "Other" }, { "paragraph_index": 53, "text": "\"Syl,\" Kaladin said, \"did you say my name?\"", "entity": "Kaladin" }, { "paragraph_index": 54, "text": "\"Huh?\" she said, opening her eyes.", "entity": "Syl" }, { "paragraph_index": 55, "text": "Kaladin ...", "entity": "Other" }, { "paragraph_index": 57, "text": "I need your help. I'm so sorry ... to ask more of you ...", "entity": "Other" }, { "paragraph_index": 58, "text": "\"Tell me you hear that,\" Kaladin said to Syl.", "entity": "Kaladin" }, { "paragraph_index": 59, "text": "\"I feel ...\" She cocked her head. \"I feel something. On the wind.\"", "entity": "Syl" }, { "paragraph_index": 60, "text": "\"It's speaking to me,\" he said, one hand to his head.", "entity": "Kaladin" }, { "paragraph_index": 61, "text": "A storm is coming, Kaladin, the wind whispered. The worst storm ... I'm sorry ...", "entity": "Other" }, { "paragraph_index": 63, "text": "\"What did you hear?\" Syl asked.", "entity": "Syl" }, { "paragraph_index": 64, "text": "\"A warning,\" he said, frowning. \"Syl, is the wind ... alive?\"", "entity": "Kaladin" }, { "paragraph_index": 65, "text": "\"Everything is alive.\"", "entity": "Syl" }, { "paragraph_index": 69, "text": "Indeed, life was largely about perspective.", "entity": null }, { "paragraph_index": 70, "text": "Like this strange structure: a hollow, rectangular block hundreds of feet tall, dominating Shadesmar's landscape. People- spren- lived along the inside walls, walking up and down them, ignoring conventions of gravity. Looking down along one of the inside walls could be stomach-churning unless you changed your perspective. Unless you convinced yourself that walking up and down that wall was normal. Whether a person was strong or not wasn't usually subject to debate, yet if gravity could be a matter of opinion ...", "entity": null }, { "paragraph_index": 73, "text": "She'd bonded two. One during her childhood. One as an adult. She'd hurt the first, and had suppressed the memory.", "entity": null }, { "paragraph_index": 75, "text": "Nearby, Pattern's head pulsed to a vibrant rhythm- always moving, always forming some new geometric display. Comparing the two broke Shallan's heart. She had done this to Testament by rejecting the bond after using her Shardblade to kill her mother.", "entity": null }, { "paragraph_index": 78, "text": "\"Why?\" Shallan asked. \"Why don't you hate me?\"", "entity": "Shallan" }, { "paragraph_index": 79, "text": "Pattern rested his hand on Shallan's shoulder. \"We both knew the danger, the sacrifice, in bonding to humans again.\"", "entity": "Pattern" }, { "paragraph_index": 80, "text": "\"I hurt her.\"", "entity": "Shallan" }, { "paragraph_index": 81, "text": "\"Yet here you are,\" Pattern said. \"Able to stand tall. Able to control the Surges. Able to protect this world.\"", "entity": "Pattern" }, { "paragraph_index": 82, "text": "\"She should hate me,\" Shallan whispered. \"But there is no vitriol in the way she holds my hand. No judgment in the way she remains with us.\"", "entity": "Shallan" }, { "paragraph_index": 83, "text": "\"Because the sacrifice was worth something, Shallan,\" Pattern said, uncharacteristically reserved. \"It worked. In the end you recovered, did better. I am still here. And remarkably, I am not even a little bit dead! I do not think you will kill me at all, Shallan! I am happy about that.\"", "entity": "Pattern" }, { "paragraph_index": 84, "text": "\"Can I heal her?\" Shallan asked. \"Maybe if I ... if I bond her again?\"", "entity": "Shallan" }, { "paragraph_index": 85, "text": "\"I think, after talking to Kelek ...\" Pattern said. \"I think you are still bonded to her.\"", "entity": "Pattern" }, { "paragraph_index": 86, "text": "\"But ...\" Shallan glanced over her shoulder at him. \"I broke the bond. That did this.\"", "entity": "Shallan" }, { "paragraph_index": 87, "text": "\"Some breaks are messy,\" Pattern said. \"A slice with a sharpened knife is clean; a slice with a dull one is ragged. Your break, done by a child without full Intent, is ragged. In some ways that makes it worse, but it does mean that some Connection between you two persists.\"", "entity": "Pattern" }, { "paragraph_index": 88, "text": "\"So ...\"", "entity": "Shallan" }, { "paragraph_index": 89, "text": "\"So no,\" Pattern said. \"I do not think that merely saying Words once more would heal her.\" His head pattern spun a little more slowly, as if he were contemplating something profound. \"These numbers are ... perplexing, Shallan. Strangely irrational, in a sequence I do not understand. I mean ... I mean that we are walking on unfamiliar ground. A better metaphor for you. Yes. Unfamiliar ground. In the deep past, deadeyes did not exist.\"", "entity": "Pattern" }, { "paragraph_index": 91, "text": "The result had been the deadeyes. The explanation might lie with Kelek, the very person Shallan had been sent to Lasting Integrity to kill. She squeezed Testament's hand. \"I'm going to help you,\" Shallan whispered. \"Whatever it takes.\"", "entity": "Shallan" }, { "paragraph_index": 93, "text": "\"Thank you,\" Shallan said. \"For coming to me when I was young. Thank you for protecting me. I still do not remember it all, but thank you.\"", "entity": "Shallan" }, { "paragraph_index": 95, "text": "\"Rest now,\" Shallan said, wiping her eyes and standing. \"I'm going to figure this out.\"", "entity": "Shallan" } ] } ] }