Wolves are scary. Perrin and Egwene are scared traveling with Elyas and his pack of hungry, hungry, bitey, chewy wolves. In actuality, they’re all pleasant enough, but Egewene is very nervous and Perrin would rather starve than to continue to eat well while traveling with the wolves. These two are a couple of pussy wimps.

At least Perrin hasn’t had any Dark One dreams since he started Hangin’ with Mr. Elyas. Most of his dreams have been nice, but they have all contained a wolf with its back turned to him. I wonder if that means something! We’ll find out in Book 11!

A couple of dogs show up and begin harassing them, but Elyas quells the beasts and finds out that they belong to a nearby camp of Tinkers. The Tuath’an. The Traveling People. The Tinkers are good at tinkering; fixing broken shit, making good quality shit, shit like that. Egwene doesn’t want to chill with no stinkin’ tinkers, but Perrin suggests they should, and what Perrin wants Perrin gets!

Elyas has a congenial, although a bit tense relationship with a Tinker named Raen. He’s the Seeker. He dedicates his life to finding a song, the song, the song that will reverse the Breaking of the World. They don’t know what the song is, how to find the song, or even recognize the song if they even came across the song! It’s really dumb, but they have faith and that’s good enough for some people.

Raen has a wife named Ila. She’s very nice and she cooks good food. Raen and Ila have a really hot grandson named Aram that fancies Egwene, and she herself gets moist in the loins. They run away together to go dancing for a bit. Probably grind up against each other for a time in front of Aram’s mother.

The Traveling People don’t believe in violence, but rather pacifism and running away when confronted with people who wish to do harm. Perrin thinks this is nuts, but the Way of the Leaf is not nuts! You’re nuts! Being violent is nuts! They argue this for a bit until Elyas tells Perrin to put a sock in it.

Storytime around the fire! A group of Tinkers were traveling across the spooky desert known as the Aiel Waste. They came across a band of female warriors called the Far Dareis Mai who had been through the spooky Blight (land of Trollocs and the Myrddraal and the Dark One and Adolf Hitler and Frank Costanza) and now they were dead. Except one, who was dying and gave a message of warning to the Tinkers: the Dark One wants to blind the Eye of the World and destroy the Wheel of Time, essentially. He means to do so and he’ll do it by the time Jeopardy comes on.

Perrin wants to know more, but Elyas tells Raen to put a sock in it. Awfully curious. Perrin has dreams about the Eye of the World…

The plot thickens like chicken gravy! Too bad Egwene is too busy getting her bone on to care much about that right now. She just wants to know that Rand and Mat are all right. Perrin reassures her that they must be all right, but after saying it out loud he’s not sure he really believes it.

Rand and Mat, as we know, are frolicking on the ship juggling with the gleeman. A fate worse than death.