Perrin is quiet for a moment as he considers how to answer. What just happened was he had been found guilty of murder at a trial where he had announced he could speak to wolves, and following that he had gone into the wolf dream to fight Slayer and destroy a ter'angreal. Explaining that to Mat? Would take time. And his friend has probably had enough shocks for one day. He's getting strange looks as it is.

"I was fighting a Shadowspawn," he answers at last. Is that even the right term for what Slayer is? "He was using a ter'angreal to keep us from Traveling out of Ghealdan. I told Faile to get everyone moving to Whitebridge once gateways were working again."

Faile. If time is really stopped in their world, then she must be caught in that moment, waiting for him to wake. He wishes he knew how.