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Errand sivensaid, allad to hear that"

"When I was younger and filled with the notion of my own sanctity, UL spoke to me in my soul He told o through ht that he meant that I was to seek out the child and reveal him How could I know that what he ? It is my son that he spoke of The mark is on my son -my son!" There was an awed pride in the zealot's voice

"UL's ways are not the ways of men"

"How truly you speak"

"And are you happy?"

"My life is filled," Relg said sied Gorient that he cou"

"He's not very far away," Errand said He looked at Relg and sa, even in this dim cave, the zealot kept his eyes squinted alht "I have a horse," he said "I can go and bring him back here in a few hours, if you want That way you won't have to go out into the sunlight"

Relg gave hirateful look and then nodded "Tell him that he must come The Gorim must speak with him"

"I will," Errand promised Then he turned and left the cave

"What does he want?" Belgarath de wanted to see hiu," Errand replied "The Gorim wants to see you -the old one"

"The old one? Is there a new one?"

Errand nodded "Relg's son," he said

Belgarath stared at Errand for a h

"What's so funny?"

"It appears that UL has a sense of humor," the old man chortled "I wouldn't have suspected that of hiarath said, still laughing "I guess that, if the Gori?"

"Polgara would skin et started"

Errand led the old eline in the foothills and the cave where Relg waited It took a fewhorse that he was supposed to go back to Belgarath's tower alone Errand spoke with hith, and it finally appeared that the anies, at least, of the idea

The trip through the dark galleries to Prolgu took several days Forblindly; but for Relg, whose eyes were virtually useless in open daylight, these lightless passageere ho And so it was that they calass-clear lake and the island rising in the center where the aged Goriarath," the saintly old man in his white robe called when they reached the shore of the subterranean lake, "Groja UL"