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A thought occurring to hi bursts A hundred paces away, he looked back and confirlass didn’t make a wall, but an enormous dome Translucent, with a violet tint, it see to stand beside hio

"He’s in there, isn’t he?" Perrin asked He reached out Oak Dancer, Sparks and Boundless were near Ahead, inside the dos, at hunt and being hunted

"Why don’t they flee?" Perrin asked

Hopper sent confusion

"I’ hi happened

Perrin felt a stab of panic in his gut What rong? He tried again, this ti to send himself to the base of the dolasslike surface rising in a cliff face before hithe wolves had sent They couldn’t get away

Was that the purpose of this dome, then? To trap wolves so that Slayer could kill the up to the surface of the do hih by more mundane means He raised a hand, then hesitated He didn’t knohat touching the surface would do

The wolves sent ies of a man in black and leather, with a harsh, lined face and a s on his lips as he launched arrows He s He also smelled of dead wolves

Perrin couldn’t leave them in there No more than he could leave Master Gill and the others to the Whitecloaks Furious at Slayer, he touched the surface of the doth They felt like water, his legs unable to hold hi the doh it The doer worked; inflating his chest was too difficult Panicked, he iined himself elsewhere, but it didn’t work He was trapped, as surely as the wolves!

A gray-silver blur appeared next to hirabbed his shoulder As Hopper pulled hith return He gasped for breath

Foolish cub, Hopper sent

"You’d leave the in the hole Foolish for not waiting for me in case hornets came out Hopper turned toward the dome Help me if I fall He padded forward, then touched his nose to the dohted himself and continued on slowly On the other side, he collapsed, but his chest continued to

I am me Hopper as he saw himself--which was identical to who he was Also scents of strength and stability

The trick, it seemed, was to be in cos in the wolf dreae was more powerful than the substance of the world itself

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"I have a better idea," Perrin said, standing up He charged forward at full speed He hit the violet dome and immediately went limp, but his momentum carried hiroaned, shoulder hurt, arm scraped