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The Aes Sedai sat by the campfire, reading the copy of a manuscript that she had found in the library of Far Madding. She and her warder had set up camp just north of the village, near a cemetery. She let her eyes run across the text:

It's close to midnight
Something evil's lurkin'in the dark
Under the moonlight
You see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream
But terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze
As horror looks you right between the eyes
You're paralyzed

-From an exerpt of a much disputed translation, ca. 84

A twig snapping behind them alerted the two to the approaching danger.

(It's Halloween! Visit cemetaries at your own peril, because in the four corners of the known world you may just come across grizzly ghouls from every tomb. And their leader.)