Chapters 10-12 Summary

Hurin finds their quarry leaving an erratic trail, often turning back northeast toward the Blight, before returning to the southern course. In a tree just past the River Erinin, they find the bodies of two Fal Dara guards, possibly the traitors that facilitated the attack, strung up and skinned alive. While passing through an abandoned village, Rand experiences a vision of the panic-stricken villages fleeing their homes as the dark force arrives. Even more ominous, they find a Myrdraal, a powerful dark creature, nailed to the door of the inn, and Rand, Mat, Perrin and Loian wonder at the power or control it would take to do such a thing to such a creature that, on the battlefield, can kill hundreds of men. One of Ingtar's soldiers insists that he has spotted a mysterious woman in a white dress at each...