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"Sardius? Sardonyx, you ed "The Mallorean Groli Sardius What's the difference?"

"Sardonyx is a gee colored with milky-white stripes It's not really very rare -or very attractive"

"That doesn't quite match up with the way I heard the Malloreans talk about it" Beldin frowned "Froather that it's a single stone -and that it' s got a certain kind of importance"

"What sort of iather was that just about every Groliet his hands on it"

"It could just be so to do with the power struggle that's going on over there"

"That's possible, I suppose, but ould its na Sardius then? They called the Orb of Aldur 'Cthrag Yaska,' re Sardius and Cthrag Yaska, wouldn't there? And if there is, ht to have a look into it"

Belgarath gave hiht that, once Torak was dead, we et a chance to rest"

"You've had a year or so" Beldin shrugged "Much et flabby"

"You're a very disagreeable fellow, do you know that?"

Beldin gave hiht have noticed that"

The next h ato impose some kind of order upon centuries of chaos Errand watched the old man quietly for a time, then drifted over to theto look out at the sun-warmed meadows of the Vale Perhaps a mile away, there was another tower, a tall, slender structure that looked soo outside?" he asked Belgarath

"What? No, that's all right Just don't wander too far away"

"I won't," Errand pro to the top of the stairway that spiraled down into the cool diht slanted across the dewdrenchedair A brown rabbit hopped out of the tall grass and regarded Errand quite calorously to scratch its long ears with a busy hind foot

Errand had not come out of the tower for randoo and he set out across the dewy green arath's

He hadn't really counted on the dew, and his feet were uncomfortably wet by the time he reached the solitary tower

He walked around the base of the stone structure several ti in their sodden boots

"I wondered how long it would take before you ca Belgarath," Errand apologized

"Did he really need help?"

"He was having a little trouble getting started"

"Would you like to coht"