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Sorry about the wait. Sorry about not naming Faile's companions in the last chapter, it's been so long since I read the book that I don't remember.
Perrin stood on a ridge overlooking the Aiel camp. There were hundreds of tents, each in distinguishable from the next. But he knew exactly which tent concerned him.
He knew for a fact that the woman he loved was in that one particular tent. He know this, not only because he had seen a woman who could be no one else go in to that tent every night and come out every morning, but also because he had sent scouts down into the camp on previous nights. Scouts that would not mistake some one else for her, scouts that the Aiel would not see as trying to free one of their prisoners.
It had been about an hour since he had seen any movement in the camp below. He gave the signal for every one to move into position and immediately heard a blue finch call from a tree just to his right.
Perrin reached out with his mind, and sure enough, all of the wolves were in position and ready. They had been ready for days, they were eager to help Young Bull get back his female. Plus they were eager to kill these men who had killed so many of their brothers just because the wolves had been in this spot first.
Perrin searched with his mind until he found the leader of one of the packs, a wolf called Hunter. Of course Hunter was not really the wolf's name. I was more like a lone wolf dodging through the forest shadows at night after it's prey, but that was not even quite right.
Young Bull, came the response. We are ready. Let us go down and avenge our brothers and sisters. Of course that was all that his pack was interested in, revenge. Get into position and hold, was all he "said." Communicating with wolves did not involve words at all, wolves communicated by sending thoughts, feelings, emotions, and mental pictures to each other.
He then sent out his thoughts to a wolf that he had known for a long while. Dapple had been one of the first wolves that ha had communicated with and he had great respect for her. She was the leader of the pack that was actually concerned in helping him.
Dapple, he "said." Give the signal for your pack to move into place. With that a single wolf's howl came from somewhere to his left.
As the pack moved down silently, invisibly, into the camp he thought he saw movement down by Faile's tent. No, he thought. Probably just moon shadows.
