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Hopper fell froround Always be ready, the wolf sent Always, but especially when youthe air beforeout into an open pasture

"I understand"

But do not coly, Hopper chided

Immediately, Perrin forced himself to remember Faile and the place where he slept His horow translucent, and the wolf dream stayed the same, but he felt more exposed

Good, Hopper sent Always ready, but never holding on too strong Like carrying a pup in your jaws

"That’s not going to be an easy balance," Perrin said

Hopper gave a slightly confused scent Of course it was difficult

Perrin s, Hopper sent Then ray and silver off toward the road Perrin followed He sensed determination from Hopper--a scent that was oddly siht That made Perrin smile

They ran down the road, and Perrin practiced the balance of not being in the drea ready to solidify his sense of self at anyto throw him from the wolf drea

Perrin took a few extra steps, surging ahead of the wolf, before stopping There was so in front of hih the roadway It extended up into the sky and distantly to both the right and the left

"Hopper?" Perrin asked "What is this?"

Wrongness, Hopper sent It should not be here The wolf sry

Perrin stepped forward and raised a hand toward the surface, but hesitated It looked like glass He’d never seen anything like this in the wolf dreaht it be like the bubbles of evil? He looked up at the sky

The wall flashed suddenly and was gone Perrin blinked, stulanced at Hopper The wolf sat on his haunches, staring at the place where the wall had been Co We will practice in another place

He loped away Perrin looked back down the road Whatever the wall had been, it had left no visible sign of its existence