Furlan, ever the chatterbox, starts talking about the Dragon of Ghealdan, which Moiraine hasn’t heard word about. Has another false Dragon reared its ugly Dragon-like head? No, just some weird preacher claiming that the Dragon is the second coming of Wheel-of-Time-Jesus or something.

Perrin, Lan, and Moiraine have all the same thought: Masema. Leave him behind for two minutes and he starts being a dingus-about-town. Moiraine is BEYOND pissed off at this, and she slams the door to her room in a complete hissy fit. Perrin enters his own room and decides to skip dinner; too preoccupied with the girl who was staring at him downstairs. After a spell, he moseys over to Moiraine’s room to talk and catches her in a state of turning in for the night, looking all sexy. Perrin turns red as a Schrute Farms beet, expecting Lan to be in the room. He’s out scouting for evidence of Rand’s path. Perrin doesn’t think they’ll ever catch up with Rand, and Moiraine agrees. Perhaps he’s travelling the Ways since he’s able to out pace them even on foot.

Perrin brings up the girl downstairs, wondering if she could possibly be a Darkfriend. Moiraine is like “girls are looking at you sometimes, you sexy hunk of man”. Perrin leaves the room, still flustered and preoccupied, and chooses to leave the inn to see the caged Aielman. Once there, he brings the cage down and breaks it open. But why? “Because I don’t like seeing people in cages,” Perrin remarks.

The man is named Gaul, and he searches for “He Who Comes With the Dawn” — Rand. He won’t find that bitch in the western lands. Go to Tear instead. Like, right now. Leave right now before Whitecloaks come and then — oh, there they are. Heh heh. Gaul takes a whole lot of them down so easily he could have been sleeping through it. Of course, Perrin helps because he’s a psycho killer (qu’est-ce que c’est?) and Gaul compliments his abilities with the axe. Gaul confirms, against Lord Orban’s tall tales, that there were only two Aielman in the fight, not twenty. lol and whatnot.

The Aielman leaves, and Lan returns to see the carnage in the town square. Shit. Perrin is totally going to be suspected. Time to leave Remen ASAP, son.