The Great Hunt/Chapter 14

==Summary==
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Ingtar and Uno notice that Hurin, Rand and Loial are gone; they seemingly vanished. Ingtar is furious with disbelief that three men and horses can disappear without a trace and leave no tracks. Mat says that maybe they ran away, but Ingtar says Hurin has no reason at all to do that and he doesn't believe Rand would either. Mat is on the verge of saying more, but to Perrin's relief he stops and walks away. With Hurin gone, Perrin worries that the Darkfriends are getting away and they will never recover the dagger.
Perrin thinks he can talk to the wolves, maybe, and find them. Perrin thought for a while that this ability had to do with the Dark One or the One Power; he understands how Rand felt about being able to channel. Moiraine had told him that it has nothing to do with the Power. Talking to the wolves may be the only way to find Rand or the Darkfriends, so he reluctantly reaches out to the wolves. The wolves mistake him for Long Tooth, their name for Elyas Machera, but soon realize who he is and they name him Young Bull. When he attacked the Whitecloaks with his axe, he seemed like a raging bull with metal horns to them. They have not seen Rand since he disappeared, but they know that the Trollocs are to the south.
Perrin finds Ingtar and tells him that the Darkfriends went south. Perrin says the wolves told him, and Ingtar is not surprised because he has heard of Elyas, a Warder who some say could talk to wolves. Perrin agrees when Ingtar says not to tell anyone about him speaking to wolves; they will tell the other Shienarans that Perrin is a sniffer. The other men are not too hard to convince, but Mat scoffs and tells Perrin that he's insane.
Perrin says he can smell something bad ahead of them. It is the pile of dead bodies killed by the Trollocs as Fain ordered. Just then, Verin Mathwin rides up to the party and says Moiraine sent her. Verin has been galloping hard after them, passing through the village with the dead Myrddraal. She also reveals that she knows Hurin is a sniffer. Ingtar says he has a new sniffer in Perrin. Verin remarks that it is very fortuitous that there is a new sniffer just as the old one disappears; she eyes Perrin curiously. Verin accepts Ingtar's invitation to ride with them and demands that Ingtar tell her all he knows of Rand. Mat and Perrin know that Verin is after Rand and not the Horn or Darkfriends.
==Characters==
*Ingtar
*Uno
*Ragan
*Masema
*Mat
*Perrin
*Verin
*Smoke (wolf)
*Two Deer (wolf)
*Winter Dawn (wolf)
===Referenced===
*Rand
*Hurin
*Loial
*Moiraine
*Egwene
*Elyas
*Padan Fain
*Haral Luhhan
*Nynaeve
===Groups===
*Darkfriends
*Aes Sedai
==Places==
===Referenced===
*Borderlands
*Emond's Field
==Items==
*Horn of Valere
*Ruby-hilted dagger
*Portal Stone
==Notes==
*At least one edition has this chapter entitled "Wolf Brother".