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"Bad-tempered," Barak replied. "And he'll probably get worse if he doesn't get a
drink pretty soon."
"I'll go at once," the sailor said.
"Wise decision."
This was yet another confusing thing for Ce'Nedra. The noblemen in their party
all treated this shabby-looking old man with enormous respect; but so far as she
could tell, he didn't even have a title. She could determine with exquisite
precision the exact difference between a baron and a general of the Imperial
Legions, between a grand duke of Tolnedra and a crown prince of Arendia, between
the Rivan Warder and the king of the Chereks; but she had not the faintest idea
where sorcerers fit in. The materially oriented mind of Tolnedra refused even to
admit that sorcerers existed. While it was quite true that Lady Polgara, with
titles from half the kingdoms of the West, was the most respected woman in the
world, Belgarath was a vagabond, a vagrant, frequently a public nuisance. And
Garion, she reminded herself, was his grandson.
"I think it's time you told us what happened, father," Lady Polgara was saying
to her patient.
"I'd really rather not talk about it," he replied shortly.
She turned to Prince Kheldar, the peculiar little Drasnian nobleman with the
sharp face and sardonic wit, who lounged on a bench with an impudent expression
on his face. "Well, Silk?" she asked him.
"I'm sure you can see my position, old friend," the prince apologized to
Belgarath with a great show of regret. "If I try to keep secrets, she'll only
force things out of me - unpleasantly, I imagine."
Belgarath looked at him with a stony face, then snorted with disgust.
"It's not that I want to say anything, you realize."
Belgarath turned away.
"I knew you'd understand."


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"The story, Silk!" Barak insisted impatiently. "It's really very simple,"
Kheldar told him.
"But you're going to complicate it, right?"
"Just tell us what happened, Silk," Polgara said.
The Drasnian sat up on his bench. "It's not really much of a story," he began.
"We located Zedar's trail and followed it down into Nyissa about three weeks
ago. We had a few encounters with some Nyissan border guards - nothing very
serious. Anyway, the trail of the Orb turned east almost as soon as it crossed
the border. That was a surprise. Zedar had been headed for Nyissa with so much
single-mindedness that we'd both assumed that he'd made some kind of arrangement
with Salmissra. Maybe that's what he wanted everybody to think. He's very
clever, and Salmissra's notorious for involving herself in things that don't
really concern her."
"I've attended to that," Lady Polgara said somewhat grimly.
"What happened?" Belgarath asked her.
"I'll tell you about it later, father. Go on, Silk."
Silk shrugged. "There isn't a great deal more to it. We followed Zedar's trail