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Perhaps it would have been useless But he hadn’t considered the possibility, and that troubled hi a cart parked beside one of the Whitecloak tents The back was open, and a grizzled silver wolf lay there, watching hirow too narrow, Hopper," Perrin said "When I get consuerous As in battle, when concentrating on the adversary in front of you can expose you to the archer on the side"
Hopper cracked hisafter the way of wolves He hopped from the cart Perrin could sense other wolves nearby--the others of the pack he had run with before Oak Dancer, Sparks and Boundless
"All right," he said to Hopper "I’arding Perrin Follow, the wolf sent
Then vanished
Perrin cursed, looking about Where had the wolf gone? He , but couldn’t sense Hopper anywhere He reached out with hisBull Suddenly Hopper was behind hiain
Perrin growled, then moved about the camp in a flash When he didn’t find the wolf, he shifted to the field of grain where he’d met Hopper last tirain, frustrated
Hopper found him a few minutes later The wolf smelled dissatisfied Follow! he sent
"I don’t kno," Perrin said "Hopper, I don’t knohere you’re going"
The wolf sat down He sent an i others of the pack The pup watched his elders and did what they did
"I’m not a wolf, Hopper," Perrin said "I don’t learn the way you do You must explain to me what you want e of, oddly, E on a fa Ee, not a toith a stone wall and a road running past the ed in the short time he had been away
"Why have we coly, the wolfhead banner still flew on the pole above the green It could have been a trick of the wolf dreaerly the people of the Two Rivers flew the standard of "Perrin Goldeneyes"
Men are strange, Hopper sent
Perrin turned to the old wolf
Men think strange thoughts, Hopper said We do not try to understand therow? They do That is all
"Very well," Perrin said
I cannot teach a sparrow to hunt, Hopper continued And a sparrow does not teach a wolf to fly
"But here, you can fly," Perrin said
Yes And I was not taught I know Hopper’s scent was full of e that one of their kind knew Hopper was frustrated because he wanted to teach Perrin, but wasn’t accustos in the way of people