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After a ties came back to hi around the village, riding a Especially not ard The wolves said all they ss with three of the hardfooted tall ones

Perrin let go the contact with the wolves gratefully He are of Hurin and Mat looking at hi," he said

"How can you be sure?" Mat demanded

"I am!" he snapped, then more softly, "I just aain, and finally said, "Well, if they aren’t coet on Fain’s trail That dagger isn’t co here"

"We can’t pick it up again this close to that village," Hurin said "Not without risking running into Whitecloaks I don’t think Lord Ingtar would appreciate that, and not Verin Sedai, neither"

Perrin nodded "We’ll follow it on a few miles, anyway But keep a close lookout We can’t be too far froood to avoid the Whitecloaks and ride right into a Seanchan patrol"

As they started out again, he could not help wondering what Whitecloaks were doing there

Geofra his saddle while the legion spread through the s about the heavyshoulderedthat tickled his memory Yes, of course The lad who claimed to be a blacksmith What was his name?

Byar pulled up in front of hie is secured, ers in heavy sheepskin coats ether near the overloaded carts in front of the inn Crying children clung to their mothers’ skirts, but no one looked defiant Dull eyes stared out of the adult faces, waiting passively for whatever was going to happen For that rateful He had no real desire to make an example of any of these people, and no wish at all to waste ti, he tossed his reins to one of the Children "See that the men are fed, Byar Put the prisoners in the inn with as much food and water as they can carry, then nail all the doors and shutters closed Make theuard, yes?"

Byar touched his heart again and wheeled his horse to shout orders The herding began anew, into the flatroofed inn, while other Children ransacked houses searching for ha the sullen faces that filed past hiht it should be two or three days before any of thee to break out of the inn and find there were no guards Two or three days was all he needed, but he did not intend to risk alerting the Seanchan to his presence now

Leaving enough ion was still scattered across Alht th of To alarm, so far as he knew Three skirmishes with Seanchan patrols had ended quickly The Seanchan had grown used to facing already defeated rabble; the Children of the Light had been a deadly surprise Yet the Seanchan kne to fight like the Dark One’s hordes, and he could not help re the one skirmish that had cost him better than fifty men He was still not sure which of the two arrowriddled women he had stared at afterwards had been the Aes Sedai