With Hurin gone, Ingtar reluctantly turns to Perrin’s wolfbrother senses to track Fain — and Verin’s sudden appearance only deepens the mystery.
We haven’t had a Perrin chapter since — ah, hell, I don’t know when, but it wasn’t in this book. This feels like begrudgingly giving Perrin a chapter — with Hurin exiled to an alternate reality, Wolf Boy is Ingtar’s only hope of finding Padan Fain’s.
And boy, does Ingtar need some hope. He’s in utter disbelief that Rand, Loial, and Hurin appear to have simply up and vanished. He commands his men to repeatedly search the area whilst quietly freaking out about how the hell he’s going to know where to go now.
Perrin reaches out to the wolves, and they answer. He learns that killing two Whitecloaks has earned him respect with the wolves, and they have named him Young Bull. The wolves are eager to hunt and kill the Trollocs, so Perrin tells Ingtar about his ability. Fortunately, wolves are seen favorably in the borderlands, and Ingtar even knows Elyas. But not everyone is comfortable with this “wolfbrother” business, so they decide to tell the men that Perrin is a sniffer, like Hurin. Mat is predictably flippant about this, but even he can’t argue with the results as Perrin leads them to the site of the Trollocs’ most recent slaughter.
Just as they come upon the gruesome scene, Verin Sedai gallops up to the group. She says Moiraine sent her, and she asks after Rand. Why did Moiraine send her? More importantly, how the hell was Verin able to find Ingtar’s group so easily?!? If she’s that good at tracking, why not have her point the way to Padan Fain? As usual, burning questions like this go unasked and unanswered.