Perrin, Lan, Moiraine, and Loial follow Rand’s trail to the village of Jarra.
Dear Perrin: no offense, dude, but I thought we might have caught a break from you by now. My next door neighbor talks to me over the fence a few times a year. If he suddenly started talking to me every day and inviting me over for a beer, it would be less conspicuous than this. What happened? Did the rest of the point-of-view characters go on strike?
This is a fluff chapter if I ever saw one. If this book were made into a movie, even the producers wouldn’t have dignified it with more than a forty-five second musical montage. Lan scouts Rand’s trail. Everyone follows Lan. Moiraine out-does Perrin and Loial at fishing. Perrin gets frustrated with Moiraine for treating him like her manservant. Then the song mercifully fades out, and our heroes arrive at the village of Jarra.