Help for Lan is coming shortly - for one thing the massive Borderland joined armies are again available, and there's Perrin who needs to join the wolves assembling now in the north and who happens to share Lan's (as yet unknown by Lan, but that won't last very long) archenemy, Isam. Not a garantee Perrin will be the one asked to go north by Rand, but it's certainly a possiblity, strengthened even more by the fact he's Tenobia's cousin - and, should anything happen soon to Davram, a likely candidate to get the wolfhead baton of Marshall-General of Saldaea (would be just like Tenobia to gain authority over Faile's husband like this, especially that she'll ressent Faile for marrying, and marrying a man like this, for sure. We've been given the signs Tenobia will be envious and jealous of Faile, and that Faile enjoys making her cousin jealous..). Then theres's the fact Rand has other duties, and when he learns about Mat's marriage