.  Now, I actually agree with you, that the encounter with Nakomi was a little weird, but It did not seem drug addled to me. Just weird. Weird like some strange old lady appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the sahara desert weird.  I read a LOT outside of the WOT and have done so for the better part of fifty years. Aviendha's encounter with Nakomi reads like any one of hundreds of descriptions from the POV of someone slipping in and out of fever dreams, any one of hundreds of interrogations from the POV of fevered or drug addled victims.  I