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Rand hesitated only aLoial ith hiriruff jokes, dismounted to haul on the rope and walk the ferry over

Mat waited until the lastthe ferry, before he kicked his horse and crowded aboard "I have to come sooner or later, don’t I?" he said, breathless, to no one in particular "I have to find it"

Rand shook his head With Mat looking as healthy as he ever had, he had altar have the Horn I just want the dagger for Mat "We will find it, Mat"

Mat scowled at hilance for his fine red coat -- and turned away Rand sighed

"It will all coht, Rand," Loial said quietly "Somehow, it will"

The current took the ferry as it was hauled out froainst the cable with a sharp creak The lancers were odd ferry the deck in helmets and armor, with swords on their backs, but they took the ferry out into the river well enough

"This is hoe left home," Perrin said suddenly "At Taren Ferry The ferry around the ferry This is hoe left It will be worse, this time"

"How can it be worse?" Rand asked Perrin did not answer He searched the far bank, and his golden eyes alerness

After a minute, Mat asked, "How can it be worse?"

"It will be I can smell it," was all Perrin would say Hurin eyed hi nervously since they had left Fal Dara

The ferry buainst the south bank with a hollow thud of stout planks against hard clay, al trees, and the Shienarans who had been hauling on the rope tar told to take the ferry back over for the others The rest followed Ingtar up the bank

"Fifty paces to a big stoneoak," Ingtar said as they rode into the trees He sounded too an could not speak of itSome of the soldiers eased the swords on their backs, and held their lances ready

At first Rand thought the figures hanging by their array limbs of the stoneoak were scarecrows Criu, and the other , teeth bared in a rictus of pain They had lived a