Perrin POV#
Moiraine,
Lan,
Perrin and
Loial ride into
Jarra late in the evening.
Perrin smells a faint, vile odor. At the inn,
Harilin's Leap, they are greeted by
Simion. He is equally startled by
Perrin's eyes and by
Loial. He tells them there were several weddings in the last two days. Widow
Jorath grabbed old
Banas shortly after
Rilith, the weaver's daughter unexpectedly wed
Jon, the blacksmith. He calls to
Nico and
Patrim, the stable boys, to take their horses and takes them inside. He takes them inside and introduces the innkeeper, Master
Harod.
Harod is relieved they are not
Whitecloaks. Normally they do not cause trouble, but yesterday some deserted and others tried to burn down his inn. When
Perrin,
Loial and
Simion are alone,
Perrin asks if another young man came through recently.
Simion says yes, he came through yesterday morning and played the flute for all the weddings, then left in the middle of the night. He headed east.
Simion recognized
Moiraine as
Aes Sedai and asks
Perrin if she could help his brother,
Noam. Mother
Roon cannot help him.
Perrin goes to ask
Moiraine. She and
Lan are angry that he talked to
Simion. They already knew
Rand was there because of the odd happenings. She says no one knows the effects of
ta'veren as strong as
Rand.
Artur Hawkwing was the strongest since the
Age of Legends and
Rand is even stronger than he. Nevertheless,
Moiraine agrees to try to help.
Simion leads
Perrin and
Moiraine to a stable.
Noam, who is locked up, acts feral and has yellow eyes.
Moiraine tries to
Heal him but fails. She says there is nothing human left in him, then she leaves.
Perrin tells
Simion that it would be kinder to let
Noam run free and
Simion does.
Simion tells
Perrin that the
Whitecloaks were looking for a
Darkfriend named
Perrin Aybara who has yellow eyes, but no
Darkfriend would bother to try to help his brother.
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