Chapter Six

Elyas tried to get away from the snapping mouth of Perrin. He had seen this before. Perrin's human side has been taken over by the side that was not human: the Wolf. Elyas managed to mobilise him limbs underneath the bulk of Perrin, and he backed himself against a tree. Perrin, on all fours approached him, sniffing him out. Elyas tried to send a message to the side of Young Bull that had taken over the mind of Perrin Aybara.

"Young Bull, remember who you are. Remember what you are." Elyas received a message back. It seemed to be a faint memory. It was when he first met Perrin and Egwene.

"Long Tooth? The Last Hunt is coming. I must hunt the Twisted Ones with the Brothers."

Elyas stepped forward towards Perrin. "You are not a true Brother, Young Bull. You and I are caught between two worlds. The world of the two-legs and the world of the Brothers. You have a she, Young Bull. A two-leg she, and soon, she marry carry your first cub."

Perrin looked up to Elyas, and he asked him something.

"Long Tooth, your two-leg, you do you not hunt with her?" Elyas bit his lip. He should not be able to hear Perrin or communicate him, but as Perrin had been taken over by his wolf side, he was more wolf now than human, so he responded.

"Young Bull, my she and I were separated by other two-legs that hunted me. They said I sided with Heartfang, even though they had seen me kill Twisted Ones, Neverborn, Notdead and once, a Shadowbrother. I miss my she, and maybe we could have had cubs, once."

Perrin suddenly started to writhe on the ground as if in agony. Elyas had seen this before. Perrin was fighting the wolf side of him that was Young Bull. He had seen it happen to people before. This was the way most Wolfbrothers and Sisters died, when the Wolf side was stronger that the human side.

"Perrin, fight it! Do not let Young Bull take over your human side! Fight to be human. You must be able to keep it in balance. Think of Faile! Your wife. Faile ni Bashere t'Aybara! She loves you. You love her. Do not make her lose you." Perrin screamed out in agony and out of the words and howls, Elyas could only make out one word.

"FAILE!" He writhed around in the ground, biting and howling like a wolf, and then Perrin collapsed.

When he awoke, he saw the five heads of Elyas, Rand, Gaul, Bael and Jheran. Elyas looked extremely worried, and he held Perrin's axe in his hands. Perrin tried to sit up, but Elyas pressed him down.

"I wouldn't Perrin. What you have just gone through would have killed most people. You had thrown your axe into a tree so hard that it took me and Rand to pull it out!" Perrin remembered what he had gone through.

"Elyas, when I was going through that, I had the memories of the Wolves. You told me about them hunting with humans. I remembered that, and every other memory they had. Do you know what that feels like?"

Elyas shook his head. "I have never gone through what you have gone through. I am glad I have never done that, because I it would have killed Rina. But you survived, and that is all that matters."

"I do not know what happened. I smelled Trollocs, so I picked up my axe and I followed the scent, then something just snapped in my head. That is the only way I could describe it. I..." Perrin trailed off, remembering the taste of the blood in his mouth."

Rand spoke for the first time. "Perrin, you do not have to explain yourself. The six of us here are different to most people. You and Elyas are Wolfbrothers, and have provided us with over half a million wolves for Tarmon Gai'don. Thank the Creator the Trollocs hate Wolves! Then there is Gaul, Bael, Jheran and myself. We have the knowledge of our ancestors, and I destroyed the Aiel because of my knowledge, because I was the car'a'carn." Rand regretted that title as much as he did the rest of his titles that he had no right to. Then suddenly, he felt a flood of emotion through his Warder bond with Elayne.

"Rand, we need you all at the camp NOW!"

He jumped up to his feet and said. "There is trouble at the camp. We need to get there now!" He hauled Perrin up over his shoulder and started to run to the camp.r