Presumably, she was also able to find some source of food, since she's been there physically this entire time.
So what, precisely, has Jasnah been doing over there in Shadesmar? Where did she get a backpack and a bandolier, and what does the bandolier hold? (Wit doesn’t see fit to mention that.) Perhaps she met someone - maybe Khriss? - in Shadesmar, and was able to obtain some useful items.
However, it might well be that readers are going to get a similar type of death in one of the next three books, and just when all are looking smugly around and saying, "Nah, he's not really dead," the thoroughly dead body will show up and all will be gaping like fish, wondering how that happened. While some readers are delighted to learn that she isn't dead, other readers are delighted to have their belief that she never really was dead confirmed. A man will find a single coin in the mud and talk about it for days, but when his inheritance comes and is accounted one percent less than he expected, then he will declare himself cheated." The better art will be in their heads, and if you give them an ounce less than they imagined, suddenly you have failed. "Conversely, if you gain a reputation for being too good, too skilled. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed.
If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. Wit waits at the back of beyond, entertaining the local fauna with esoteric discussions of art a ring of light spins before him, and Jasnah appears at the center of it she points an instantly-summoned Blade at Wit, who is profoundly unconcerned by it after a bit of verbal fencing, Jasnah begins to list the things that will, or will need to, happen Wit crosses off each item on her list as she goes they begin walking toward the nearest town further information is exchanged Jasnah realizes that most of what she has learned may be irrelevant with a brief philosophical discussion of the nature of God, they proceed on their way back to what's left of civilization.
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