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Hopper sat on the street a short distance away Perrin walked over to the wolf He could have jumped there i everything easily That would bite at hi Bull, Hopper sent approvingly

"I still take too long," Perrin said, glancing over his shoulder "Every tiain control I need to be faster In a battle with Slayer, a few ht as well be an eternity"

He will not be so strong as these

"He’ll still be strong enough," Perrin said "He’s had years to learn to control the wolf drea Bull, you started the first ti a feeeks back"

Hopper continued laughing He was right, in a way Perrin had spent two years preparing, visiting the wolf dreaht But he still needed to learn as lad for the delay before the trial

But he could not delay too long The Last Hunt was upon the to the north; Perrin could feel theht, for the Borderlands They wereboth in the real world and in the wolf dream, but those here did not shift there directly They ran, as packs

He could tell that Hopper longed to join them However, he remained behind, as did sohtmare"

The Rose March was in bloom

That was incredible Few other plants had bloomed in this terrible summer, and those that did had wilted But the Rose March was bloo around the garden framework Voracious insects buzzed from flower to flower, as if every bee in the city had come here to feed

Gawyn kept his distance from the insects, but the scent of roses was so pervasive that he felt bathed in it Once he finished his walk, his clothing would probably s with several advisors near one of the benches beside a snancy, and seeht like the surface of a mirror; atop that hair, the Rose Crown of Andor looked almost plain by comparison

She often had much to do these days He’d heard hushed reports of the weapons she was building, the ones she thought ht be as powerful as captive daht through the nights, fro for war, the city abuzz with activity She didn’t often have tilad for what she could spare

She smiled at him as he approached, then waved off her attendants for the ave hihtful"

"A common malady of mine lately," he said "You look distracted"

"A common malady of mine lately," she said "There is always too h ofhis arm "I need to speak to you And I’ve been told that a walk around the gardens once a day will be good forin the scents of roses and lanced up at the sky as they walked "I can’t believe howhere I’d nearly convincedunnatural"

"Oh, it probably is," she said nonchalantly "A week back the cloud cover in Andor broke around Caemlyn, but nowhere else"

"But…how?"