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

"I hate games."

"We must all play this one, however, gentle Beldin. The rules may not
be to our liking, but we must abide by them. for they are laid down by
the contending Purposes."

"Why? It's their fight. Why involve the rest of us? Why don't they
just pick a time and place, meet, and have it out once and for all?"

"That they may not do, my son, for should they ever confront each other
directly, their struggle would destroy the whole of the universe."

"I don't think we'd want that," Belkira said mildly. The twins are
Alorns, after all, and Alorns take a childish delight in gross
understatement.

"You are the other Destiny, aren't you, Master?" Belsambar asked.

"Torak is the one, and you are the other."

"I am a part of it, my son," Aldur conceded.

"We are all parts of it.

That is why what we do is so important. One will come in the fullness
of time, however, who will be even more important. It is he who will
meet Torak and prepare the way for the Choice."

And that was the very first time I ever heard of Belgarion. Aldur knew
he was coming, though, and he'd been patiently preparing for him since
he and his brothers had built the world. If you want to put it in the
simplest terms, I suppose you could say that the Gods created this
world to give Belgarion something to stand on while he set things right
again. It was a lot of responsibility for somebody like Garion, but I
suppose he was up to it. Things did turn out all right--more or
less.

Our Master's explanation of what we were doing laid a heavy
responsibility on us, as well, and we felt it keenly. Even in the
midst of our labors, however, we all noticed that the world had been
enormously changed by what Torak had done to it. The presence of a new
ocean in what had been the center of the continent had a profound
effect on the climate, and the mountain range our Master and Belar had
raised to confine that ocean changed it even more. Summers became
dryer and hotter for one thing, and the winters became longer and
colder. That's one of the reasons that I tend to get very angry when
someone starts playing around with the weather. I've seen what happens
when something or someone tampers with normal weather patterns. Garion
and I had a very long talk about that on one occasion, as I