Chapter 28: To the Tower of Ghenjei
Perrin goes into the wolf dream, but finds no one there but a man called the Slayer who can enter it bodily to permanently kill wolves. He enters the title tower, and Hopper appears and tells him it’s impossible to leave here. And a woman Hopper can’t see, who’s holding a strange silver object, is impressed to learn he can talk to wolves and advises him the same. But she can’t stay, as telling him even this much is against the “prescripts.”
From the way the woman is described, I get the feeling readers with sharp enough memories should know who she is, but I’ve got nothing. Maybe that’s also the case with the Slayer. All this is really just setup, so for now I’m happy just waiting for what it’s leading up to.
Comments
montagohalcyon
Since: Dec, 1969
Oct 17th 2012 at 5:16:01 PM
I couldn't remember who that was, almost guessed Lanfear then sensibly opened my own copy to check.
"You have a bannerman's courage, which some say cannot be told from foolhardiness." So you know where she first saw Perrin, at least (reference to the climax of The Great Hunt).
Sabbo
Since: Dec, 1969
Oct 18th 2012 at 12:57:35 AM
To know who Slayer is - or to even suspect it - you'd need to have been very attentive. I consider myself attentive and I didn't figure it out until quite a while later.
The woman I think I got though. Or maybe I got it wrong. Either way, it became clear later. Slayer's identity on the other hand won't be explicitly stated for several books yet.
