Muelin
From Tar Valon Library
General
Muelin is a contortionist in Valan Luca's traveling show. Her uniform consists of gauzy yellow (TFoH, Ch. 40) or gauzy red trousers with a tight matching vest (TFoH, Ch. 47).
Timeline
- Originally, she performed in a show that was nearly destroyed by the mob in Samara. Luca hired her after that (TFoH, Ch. 40).
- Nynaeve watches her perform with a dove in either hand. She is gripping some sort of wooden frame in her teeth above a platform and bending herself double. It reminds Nynaeve painfully of what Moghedien did to her (TFoH, Ch. 40).
- The morning Elayne, Nynaeve and the others want to leave the show, she is already up and dressed for her first performance. Like most females, she is immediately attracted to Galad, when he shows up (TFoH, Ch. 47).
Quotes
"As Nynaeve watched, aghast, the peculiar acrobat lowered her hands to the platform for a moment while bending herself double, until she seemed to be sitting on her own head. Even that was not enough. Her legs curved down in front of her, then impossibly back up under her arms, whereupon she transferred the doves to the upturned soles of her feet, now the highest part of the contorted ball she had knotted herself into." (Nynaeve observing; The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 40).