faded into night, and the misting rain continued.
Moiraine and Lan kept a
steady, ground-eating pace. The horses' hooves splashed through puddles on
the dogfart sex hard-packed dirt. Dogfart sex the moon shone through gaps in the clouds. Low hills
began to rise around them, and trees to appear more and more often. Perrin
thought there must be forest ahead, but he was not sure how he liked the
idea. dogfart sex woods could hide them from pursuit; woods could let pursuit come
close before dogfart sex they saw.
A thin howl rose far behind them. For a moment he thought it was a
wolf; he surprised
himself by nearly reaching out to the wolf before he
could stop. The cry came again, and he dogfart sex knew it was no dogfart sex wolf. Others answered
it, all miles behind, eerie wails holding blood and death, cries that spoke
of nightmares. To his surprise, Lan and Moiraine slowed, the dogfart sex Aes Sedai
studying the hills around them in the
night.
"They are a long way," he said. "They' ll not catch us if dogfart sex we keep on."
"The Darkhounds?" dogfart sex Zarine muttered. "Those are the Darkhounds? Are you
sure it isn't the Wild Hunt, Aes Sedai?"
"dogfart sex But it is," Moiraine replied. "It is."
"You can never outrun the Darkhounds, blacksmith," Lan said, "not on
the fastest horse. Always, you must face them and defeat them, or they will
pull you down."
"I could have stayed in the stedding, you know," Loial said. &dogfart sex quot;My
mother would have had me married by now, but it would not have been a bad
life. Plenty of books. I did not have to come Outside."
"There,&dogfart sex quot; Moiraine said, pointing to a tall, treeless mound well off to
their dogfart sex right. There dogfart sex were no dogfart sex trees that Perrin could see for two dogfart sex hundred
paces or more around it, either, and they were still sparse beyond that.
"We must see them coming to have a chance."
dogfart sex The Darkhounds' dire cries rose again, closer, yet still far.
Lan quickened Mandarb's pace a little, now dogfart sex that Moiraine had chosen