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

recall--that is, I talked. He listened. At least I hope he did.
Garion has enormous power, and sometimes he turns it loose before he
thinks his way completely through a given course of action.

With the change of climate there also came a gradual alteration of the
world around us. The vast primeval forest on the northern edge of the
Vale began to thin out, for one thing, and it was replaced by
grassland.

I'm sure the Algars approve of that, but I preferred the trees
myself.

There was also a rather brutal alteration of the climate of the Far
North. Belar, however, persisted in his plan to find some way to close
with the Angaraks again, and his Alorns were obliged to endure truly
savage winters.

There in the Vale, however, we had more on our minds than the weather.
The cracking of the world set a lot of things in motion, and Aldur kept
the seven of us very busy making sure that things that were supposed to
happen did happen. We surmised that the Angaraks were doing the same
thing. The two contending Purposes undoubtedly were maneuvering for
position.

About twenty years after the cracking of the world, our Master summoned
us all to his tower and suggested that one of us ought to go to what's
now Mallorea to find out what Torak and his people were up to.

"I'll go," Beldin volunteered.

"I fly better than the rest of you, and I can move around among the
Angaraks without attracting any attention."

"Somehow your reasoning there escapes me, old boy," Belmakor said.

"You're a rather remarkable-looking fellow, you know."

"That's the whole point. When people look at me, all they can see is
this hump on my back and the fact that my arms are longer than my
legs.

They don't bother to look at my face to find out what my race is.
There's a kind of anonymity that goes with being deformed."

"Do you want me to go with you?" Belsambar offered.

"I'm an Angarak, after all, and I know the customs."

"Thanks, brother, but no. You've got some fairly strong opinions about
Grolims. We wouldn't be anonymous for very long if you started turning