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Brand looked thoughtfully over at the still, blanket-draped form of the woman who had tried to kill Ce'Nedra "She would have had to have entered the Citadel by way of one of the gates," he mused "That iven hi in I'll round up everythem all down here to have a look at her Once we know exactly when she got in, maybe we can start to backtrack her I'd like to find the ship she arrived on and have a talk with the captain"

"What can I do?" Garion asked quickly

"Probably you should stay close to Ce'Nedra's rooara leaves for any reason at all, you ought to go in and take her place There could be other attempts, you know, and I think we'll all feel better if Ce'Nedra's guarded rather closely"

Under Polgara's watchful eyes, Ce'Nedra spent a quiet night, and her breathing was er the next day She complained bitterly about the taste of the ara listened with a great show of interest to the queen's extensive tirade "Yes, dear," she agreed pleasantly "Now drink it all down"

"Does it have to taste so awful?" Ce'Nedra said with a shudder

"Of course it does If ht be tempted to stay sick so that they could enjoy the et well"

Late that afternoon, Silk returned with a disgusted look on his face "I hadn't realized how ether," he grumbled

"No luck, I take it," Garion said

"Not really," Silk replied, throwing hied to pick up all sorts of educated guesses, though"

"Oh?"

"One tailor illing to stake his reputation on the fact that this particular stitch is used exclusively in Nyissa A seaarment And one half-ent so far as to say that the owner of the garment was a sailor, since this stitch is always used to repair torn sails"

"What are you talking about, Silk?" Polgara asked curiously as she passed through the sitting roo to get so," he said in a disgusted tone, waving the bloodstained shift

"Here Let lanced at it almost casually "Northeastern Drasnia," she told him, "from somewhere near the town of Rheon"

"Are you sure?" Silk ca was developed centuries ago -back in the days when all the garusting," Silk said

"What is?"

"I ran around with this thing all day long -up and down all those stairs and in and out of every tailor shop in Riva -and all I had to do to find out what I wanted to knoas show it to you"

"That's notback the shift "If you don't know enough to bring these little problems to me by now, then there probably isn't ara," he said drily

"Then the assassin was a Drasnian," Garion said

"A northeastern Drasnian," Silk corrected "Those people up there are a strange sort -ale?"