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He suddenly re in front of wolves He’d thought hiht! He had been wrong about that He knehat it meant, now "I can feel it on the wind," he said "The proble in the wolf dream Somebody wants us to be unable to escape this place"
A cold breeze, odd in the noonday heat, washed over them "Are you certain?" Faile asked
"Yes," Perrin said "Oddly, I a?"
"Someone wants to trap us and attack Makes most sense to let us clash with the Whitecloaks, then kill whoever survives But that would require an arn Just us and the Whitecloaks I have Elyas hunting out signs of a Waygate in the area, but he hasn’t found anything yet Soat shadows"
"Lately, husband, it’s become likely that those shadows can bite I trust your instincts"
He looked to her, then smiled deeply "Thank you"
"So what do we do?"
"We ride to this trial," Perrin said "And do whatever we can to keep froht, I see if I can stop the thing that is preventing the gateways We can’t just ride far enough away to escape it; the thing can be moved I saw it in two places I’ll have to destroy it, soave the call to h the force behind still seean to
Theythe field with the pavilion The Whitecloaks had already arrived; they were in forht their entire ar to be a tense afternoon
Gaul ran beside Perrin’s horse, and he didn’t seem worried, nor did he have his face veiled Faile knew he thought it honorable for Perrin to go to trial Perrin either had to defend himent Aiel had walked freely to their own executions to meet toh
They rode down to the pavilion A chair had been set on a low platform at the northern end, its back to the distant forest of leatherleaf Morgase sat in the elevated chair, looking every inch a old that Galad must have found for her How had Faile ever mistaken this woman for a siase, and Whitecloaks filled half of thement His every lock of hair was in place, his uniforlanced to the side and caught Berelain staring at Galad and blushing, looking aliven up on her atteo make peace with the Whitecloaks
"Galad Da before the pavilion Faile dismounted and walked beside hiins"
"And ould that be?" the young commander called from the open-sided tent