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Pushing all that aside -- it was done and behind hiave the wolves the smell of Rand, of Loial and Hurin, and asked if they had scented the three It was one of the things that had coe in his eyes; he could identify people by their smell even when he could not see the but pitchdarkness He was always careful to light laht they were needed

Fro the hollow in late day That was the last they had seen or smelled of Rand or the other two

Perrin hesitated The next step would be useless unless he told Ingtar And Mat will die if we don’t find that dagger Burn you, Rand, why did you take the sniffer?

The one tiwene, the smell of Fain had made his hair stand on end; not even Trollocs sh the bars of the cell and tear the htened him more than Fain did To mask Fain’s smell in his own mind, he added the scent of Trollocs before he howled aloud

From the distance came the cries of a wolfpack, and in the hollow horses staered their longbladed lances and eyed the rim of the hollow uneasily Inside Perrin’s head, it was e of the wolves, the hate There were only two things wolves hated All else they merely endured, but fire and Trollocs they hated, and they would go through fire to kill Trollocs

Even more than the Trollocs, Fain’s scent had put the that ht

Where?

The sky rolled in his head; the land spun East and west, wolves did not know They knew the movements of sun and moon, the shift of seasons, the contours of the land Perrin puzzled it out South And soerness to kill the Trollocs The wolves would let Young Bull share in the killing He could bring the twolegs with their hard skins if he wanted, but Young Bull, and Smoke, and Two Deer, and Winter Dawn, and all the rest of the pack would hunt down the Twisted Ones who had dared come into their land The inedible flesh and bitter blood would burn the tongue, but they must be killed Kill them Kill the Twisted Ones

Their fury infected him His lips peeled back in a snarl, and he took a step, to join the

With an effort he broke the contact except for a thin sense that the wolves were there He could have pointed to the distance He felt cold inside I’ht helpcloser He sounded the way he always did, flippant -- and bitter under it, too, of late -- but he looked worried "That is all I need Rand run off, and then you get sick I don’t knohere I’ll find a Wisdom to look after you out here I think I have sos I canServe you right if Ioff his friend, he went to find Ingtar The Shienaran lord was scanning the ground on the rian, and Masetar aside He made sure Uno and the rest were too far away to hear before he spoke "I don’t knohere Rand or the others went, Ingtar, but Padan Fain and the Trollocs -- and I guess the rest of the Darkfriends -- are still heading south"

"How do you know this?" Ingtar said

Perrin drew a deep breath "Wolves told hter, scorn, an accusation of being a Darkfriend, of being mad Deliberately, he tucked his thumbs behind his belt, away froain If he tries to kill me for a Darkfriend, I’II run, but I won’t kill anybody else

"I have heard of things like this," Ingtar said slowly, after a moment "Rumors There was a Warder, a man called Elyas Machera, who soo" He see in Perrin’s eyes "You know him?"

"I know him," Perrin said flatly "He’s the oneI don’t want to talk about it I didn’t ask for it" That’s what Rand said Light, I wish I were hotar said, "they will track the Darkfriends and Trollocs for us?" Perrin nodded "Good I will have the Horn, whatever it takes" The Shienaran glanced around at Uno and the others still searching for tracks "Better not to tell anyone else, though Wolves are considered good luck in the Borderlands Trollocs fear them But still, better to keep this between us for the tiht not understand"

"I would as soon nobody else ever found out," Perrin said

"I will tell them you think you have Hurin’s talent They know about that; they’re easy with it Soe, and at the ferry I’ve heard jokes about your delicate nose Yes You keep us on the trail today, Uno will see enough of their tracks to confirhtfall every last man will be sure you are a sniffer I will have the Horn" He glanced at the sky, and raised his voice "Daylight is wasting! To horse!"

To Perrin’s surprise, the Shienarans seetar’s story A few of them looked skeptical -- Masehtfully, and that was enough for most Mat was the hardest to convince"A sniffer! You? You’re going to track murderers by smell? Perrin, you are as crazy as Rand I awene and Nynaeve trotting off to Tar Valon to becolance for the Shienarans

Perrin took Hurin’s place beside Ingtar as the s remarks, until Uno found the first tracks left by Trollocs and by men on horses, but Perrin paid him littleon ahead to kill the Trollocs The wolves cared only about killing the Twisted Ones; to thes Perrin could al in a dozen directions while the wolves slew Trollocs, running aith the Horn of Valere Running aith the dagger And once the Trollocs were dead, he did not think he could interest the wolves in tracking the humans even if he had any idea which of theu before he got the first flash of ie