title: 30 Days of Night: Return to Barrow
author:  Steve Niles 
description: <b>Steve Niles</b>&#160;is a comic book author and novelist, known for works such as&#160;<i>30 Days of Night</i>,&#160;<i>Criminal Macabre</i>,&#160;<i>Simon Dark</i>,&#160;<i>Mystery Society</i>&#160;and&#160;<i>Batman: Gotham County Line</i>.&#160;He is credited among other contemporary writers as bringing horror comics back to prominence.<br><br><b>Ben Templesmith</b>&#160;is a&#160;<i>New York Times</i>&#160;best selling artist and writer most widely known for his work in the comic book industry where he has received multiple nominations for the International Horror Guild Awards as well as the industry's top prize, the Eisner Award. He also won a Spike TV Scream Award. As a creator, his most notable works have been&#160;<i>30 Days of Night</i>&#160;(which spawned a major motion picture) and&#160;<i>Fell</i>. His other projects include the critically acclaimed serial&#160;<i>Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse</i>, as well as&#160;<i>Welcome to Hoxford</i>, and&#160;<i>Singularity 7</i>, all of which he also wrote.
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  ## Chapter 47
  
  ![Dice](../Graphics/dice.gif)
  
  #### _The Wandering Woman_
  
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  Mat wanted a quiet ride to Ebou Dar, and he got one, in a way. But traveling
  with six women, four of them Aes Sedai, he had plenty of irritations.
  
  They reached the distant forest that first day with the sun still fairly well
  up in the sky, and rode several hours beneath a high canopy of mostly bare
  branches, with dead leaves and dry branches crunching under the horses'
  hooves, until making camp near a dwindling stream just before sunset. Lantern-
  jawed Harnan, the file leader with the hawk tattooed on his cheek, saw to
  getting the troopers from the Band settled, the horses curried and hobbled,
  sentries set and fires lit. Nerim and Lopin bustled about moaning over not
  having brought tents, and how was a man to know they would be spending nights
  on the ground when his master said nothing, and if his 