'A general?' Mat thought, with his luck, it was probably an officer from Illian, or someone else who had a reason to want him dead. "My name is Thom." Mat said, it was good to have a knack for lying, it had saved him more than once, "Thom Grinwell, I'm a hunter for the Horn of Valere." That was true enough, perhaps too true. However, no one even knew that the Horn had been found, let alone that Mat knew where it was. Unless he was a darkfriend, they seemed to know everything about him.