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"No, I suppose not"

"Then it wasn't eavesdropping, was it?"

Belgarath turned sharply, looking over his shoulder at the boy riding behind hi as you are How did you arrive at it?"

Errand shrugged "It just caraze here like that?" He pointed at a dozen or so reddishbrown deer feeding calmly nearby

"They have done so ever since I can re about Aldur's presence that keeps aniraceful towers linked by a peculiar, alarath told hied to Beltira and Belkira, the twin sorcerers whose minds were so closely linked that they inevitably completed each other's sentences A short while later they rode by a tower so delicately constructed of rose quartz that it seemed almost to float like a pink jewel in the laed to the hunchbacked Beldin, who had surrounded his own ugliness with a beauty so exquisite that it snatched one's breath away

At last they reached Belgarath's own squat, functional tower and diso up"

The rooe, round, and incredibly cluttered As he looked around at it, Belgarath's eyes took on a defeated look "This is going to take weeks," he s in the rooarath's present mood, the old man would not be inclined to show hi He located the fireplace, found a tarnished brass scoop and a short-handled broo

"What are you doing?" Belgarath asked

"Durnik says that the first thing you should do in a new place is get a spot ready for your fire"

"Oh, he does, does he?"

"It's not usually a very big chore, but it gets you started and once you get started, the rest of the job doesn't look so big Durnik's very wise about things like that Do you have a pail or a dust bin of so the fireplace?"

"Well -if you don't arath sighed "Pol and Durnik have corrupted you already, boy," he said "I tried to save you, but a bad influence like that alins out in the end"

"I suppose you're right," Errand agreed "Where did you say that pail was?"

By evening they had cleared a se in the process a couple of couches, several chairs, and a sturdy table