When the hubbub dies down a bit, Lan comes over to Perrin and asks him how he knew that there were Gray Men in the inn when neither he nor Moiraine could sense it. Perrin tries to keep his voice down so that Zarine doesn’t hear, and then tells Lan that he smelled them. They smelled like old cheese and rancid Funyuns, and that really isn’t as good as it sounds, sir.

Lan scouts outside, asking Loial and Perrin to join him. This makes Perrin uneasy; Lan never asks for help. Zarine joins much to Lan’s exasperation. They discover paw prints in a stone block, similar to paw prints in stone that Perrin saw at an earlier date. These are Darkhound prints. Darkhounds can run through mud and dirt without leaving a trace, but stone is a horse of another color altogether! Lan also says that they usually don’t travel south of the Mountains of Dhoom, which are about a million miles north of Illian, so ha ha isn’t that a corker? Anyway, uh, go to bed! Lan will go find Moiraine now to tell her the awful, terrible news…

GET READY FOR MORE FUCKING DREAMS. Perrin yells for Hopper, but Hopper is nowhere in sight. He dreams of Mat playing dice with Ba’alzamon. He dreams of Egwene, Nynaeve, and Elayne getting trapped in a cage. Then Hopper shows up to tell Perrin “he’s too young to be here”, and Perrin informs Hopper of the Darkhounds. And the Gray Men. And Hopper is like “oh hellshits, son, those are Shadowbrothers! Get out of here post haste! Out! Out out out!”

Perrin wakes up to find Zarine staring at him from across his room. She ticks off all the crazy things going on around Perrin: he’s ta’veren, he’s got yellow eyes, he’s attracting Gray Men, he travels with an Aes Sedai, he travels with a Warder, he travels with an Ogier, he kills Whitecloaks for godsake. She wants to bone him so badly, but Perrin grumbles and remembers that Min told him to stay away from a beautiful woman. At first he thought it was Lanfear, but now he’s not so sure…

Enter Moiraine. She looks grim and is all like “THE FORSAKEN ARE LOOSE”. Killing the mood like she always does. And then the chapter is over! What’s the point? The scene is just going to pick up exactly where it left off! Pah.