Mat nods. "This entire bloody month." More or less. Light! Perrin, why do you sound flaming amused? You know why he thought that, he told you why!

And it wasn't the trip across town that he thought'd wake him. It was getting him to touch the coral. Zelda'd said that's why people fall asleep, so it made sense that getting him to touch it might wake him up.

...Catching a badger and setting it on Rand did cross his mind though. For a moment.