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That is one way Another is to be where you want

Perrin frowned Then he closed his eyes and used the direction the wolves were running to guess where they would be So on a sandy hillside, tufts of long-bladed grass peeking out of the soil An enormous mountain with a broken tip--shattered as if it had been slapped by the hand of a giant--rose to his right

A pack of wolves burst out of the forest Many of the when he should seek the end! Young Bull, seeking the end when he should enjoy the hunt! He sh in truth he felt much as he had on the day that his cousin Wil had planted a bucket of wet feathers to drop on Perrin

So fluttered in the air A chicken feather Wet around the edges Perrin started, realizing that they were spread around hiround As he blinked, they vanished The wolves s Bull dusted with feathers

Get lost in drea Bull, Hopper sent, and those drea down his embarrassment He’d experienced before the unpredictable nature of the wolf drea to the wolf "How s, if I wanted?"

If you wanted? Hopper said It’s not about what you want, Young Bull It’s about what you need What you know

Perrin frowned Sos still confused hiroup turned--as if one--and looked to the southwest They vanished

They went here Hopper sent an ie of a distant wooded hollow The wolf prepared to follow

"Hopper!" Perrin said, stepping forward "How did you know? Where they went? Did they tell you?"

No But I can follow

"How?" Perrin said

It is a thing I’ve always known, Hopper sent Like walking Or ju

"Yes, but how?"

The wolf sh "scent" was , an impression, and a smell all in one

"Go somewhere," Perrin said "Let me try to follow"

Hopper vanished Perrin walked up to where the wolf had been

Sive a sending By reflex, Perrin reached out He found dozens of wolves In fact, he was aonathered in one place before Why were they here? And did the sky look more stormy in this place than it had in other areas of the wolf dream?

He couldn’t sense Hopper; the wolf had closed hi Perrin unable to place where he was Perrin settled down Smell it, Hopper had sent Smell it how? Perrin closed his eyes and let his nose carry the scents of the area to him Pine cones and sap, quills and leaves, leatherleaf and he A distant, lingering scent that seemed out of place Many of the scents were the same--the same fecund sense of nature, the same wealth of trees But those were mixed with the scents of moss and of wet stone The air was different Pollen and flowers

Perrin squeezed his eyes tight, breathing in deeply Somehow, he built a picture in his mind from those scents The process was not unlike the way a wolf sending translated into words