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The bedroom door opened, and Poledra came out into the kitchen.

"Are you three going to talk all night?" she demanded in a quiet
voice.

"If you are, go do it someplace else. If you wake the babies . . ."
She left it hanging ominously.

"We were just thinking about going to bed, dear," Belgarath lied
blandly.

"Well, do it then. Don't just sit there and talk about it."

Belgarath stood up and stretched--perhaps just a bit theatrically.

"She's right, you know," he said to his two friends.

"It'll be daylight before long, and the twins have been resting up all
night. If we're going to get any sleep, we'd better do it now."

Later, after the three of them had climbed up into the loft and rolled
themselves into blankets on the pallets Durnik kept stored up there,
Garion lay looking down at the slowly waning firelight and the
flickering shadows in the room below. He thought of Ce'Nedra and his
own children, of course, but then he let his mind drift back over the
events of this most special of nights. Aunt Pol had always been at the
very center of his life, and with the birth of her twins, her life was
now fulfilled.

Near to sleep, the Rivan King found his thoughts going back over the
conversation he had just had with Durnik and his grandfather. He was
honest enough with himself to admit that his desire to read Belgarath's
history of the world was not entirely academic. The old sorcerer was a
very strange and complex man, and his story promised to provide
insights into his character that could come from no other source. He'd
have to be pushed, of course. Belgarath was an expert at avoiding work
of any kind.

Garion, however, thought he knew of a way to pry the story out of his
grandfather. He smiled to himself as the fire burned lower and lower
in the room below. He knew he could find out how it all began.

And then, because it was really quite late, Garion fell asleep, and,