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"I’entler "She is royalty They kno to take care of the after her Not to ? She’ll be all right"

"We’re done with this conversation," Mat said, shifting his spear to hold it upright, curved blade toward the unseen sun above, butt in the lancer’s strap at the side of his saddle

"I just--"

"Over," Mat said "You don’t have any hed "It was the last pinch Good tabac--Two Rivers grown The only pouch of it I’ve seen in so with the pipe"

"He ood, honest work," Tal with you, Mat It’s good to have you back, crust and all But your talk of feed with the Aes Sedai does have me worried"

Mat nodded "How are we on rations?"

"Low," Talmanes said

"We’ll buy e can at the village," Mat said "We’ve got coin coave you"

A sh to supply the whole ar e or two every day in those areas, traveling with a quick force like the Band To stay afloat, you scavenged and bought whatever little bit you could at each village you passed A wagonload here, a cartful there, a bucket or two of apples fro farood corain It added up

"Yes, but will the villagers sell?" Tale ti anyone to sell us food Seeetting scarce, no o and no round his teeth, then grew annoyed at hie Not because of Tuon, though

Either way, he needed to relax And that village ahead--what had Vanin called it? Hinderstap? "How much coin do you have on you?"

Talold h," Mat said, rubbing his chin "We’ll have to dig so the whole thing" He turned Pips around "Co "What are we doing?"

"You’re going to kindly take o enjoy ourselves at the tavern," Mat said "And while we’re at it, we’re going to resupply If wene or Nynaeve had been there, they’d have boxed his ears and told hi Tuon probably would have looked at hi that ood thing about Talmanes, however, was that he si just a hint of aot to see this, then!"

CHAPTER 21

Eing in the air He felt a spike of terror, floundering in the sky Black clouds boiled overhead, dark and orasses rolled in the wind, no signs of humans No tents, no roads, not even any footprints

Perrin wasn’t falling He just hung there He waved his ar as his mind tried to ht I’ to come here

He forced hih it was difficult to be calray-furred forh the air The wolf soared down to the field below, landing easily

"Hopper!"

Ju froes Perrin was getting better and better at interpreting those--the soft earth as a representation of the ground, rushing wind as an i, the scent of relaxation and calmness to indicate there was no need to fear

"But how?"

Times before, you always rushed ahead, like a pup neeaned Jump Jurinning up at Perrin

Perrin ground his teeth and muttered a curse or two for stubborn wolves It seemed to hih Hopper did have a point Perrin had leaped before in this place, if never from the sky itself

He took a deep breath, then closed his eyes and i Air rushed around hiround He opened his eyes A large gray wolf, scarred froround beside him, and wild millet spread out in a broad plain around hirasses that reached high in the air Scratchy stalks rubbed against Per-rin’s arrasses smelled too dry, like cut hay left in a barn over the winter

Sos were transitory here in the Wolf Dream; leaves lay in a pile by his feet at onesmelled just faintly stale, as if it weren’t quite there

He looked up The sky was stormy Nors It could be completely overcast; then, in a blink, it would suddenly be clear This time, those dark storhtning between different thunderheads Yet the lightning never struck the ground, and it made no noise

The plain was oddly silent The clouds shrouded the entire sky, ominous And they did not leave

The hast Hunt coether, then Unless we sleep instead

"Sleep?" Perrin said "What of the Last Hunt?"

It coreed If Shadowkiller falls to the storether You and us

Perrin rubbed his chin, trying to sort through the Sending of is It made little sense to him

But, well, he was here now He’d wanted to coet soood to see Hopper again

Run, Hopper sent His Sending was not alarether