"Books - David Eddings - Belgarath the Sorcerer" - читать интересную книгу автора (Eddings David)

"One does not understand what you mean."

"I think you do. The females belong to the nice one. It is not proper
for you to admire them so openly." Regardless of my reservations about
the matter, it was fairly obvious that she had made some decisions. I
thought it might be best to head that off.

"Perhaps you would wish to return to the place where we first met so
that you may rejoin your pack?" I suggested delicately.

"I will go along with you for a while longer." She rejected my
suggestion.

"I was ever curious, and I see that you are familiar with things that
are most remarkable." She yawned, stretched, and curled up at my
feet-being careful, I noticed, to place herself between me and those
Alorn girls.

The return to the Vale where my Master waited took far less time than
my journey to the land of the Bear God had. Although time is normally
a matter of indifference to them, when there's need for haste, the Gods
can devour distance in ways that hadn't even occurred to me.

We set out at what seemed no more than a leisurely stroll with Belar
asking me questions about my Master and our lives in the Vale while the
young she-wolf padded along sedately between us. After several hours
of this, my impatience made me bold enough to get to the point.

"My Lord,"

I said, "forgive me, but at this rate, it'll take us almost a year to
reach my Master's tower."

"Not nearly so long, Belgarath," he disagreed pleasantly.

"I believe it lies just beyond that next hilltop."

I stared at him, not believing that a God could be so simple, but when
we crested the hill, there lay the Vale spread before us with my
Master's tower in the center.

"Most remarkable," the wolf murmured, dropping to her haunches and
staring down into the Vale with her bright yellow eyes. I had to agree
with her about that.

My brothers had returned by now, and they were waiting at the foot of
our Master's tower as we approached. The other Gods were already with
my Master, and Belar hastened into the tower to join them.

When my brothers saw my companion, they were startled.