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"What are you doing?" Belgarath de to have toabout, Grandfather" Garion said unhappily "I don't want to hurt you, but you have to look" He walked slowly and deliberately toward Belgarath, the Orb extended before hi away apprehensively, "Be careful with that"

"Go to the table, Grandfather," Garion told hirimly "Go to the table and read what I found"

"Are you threatening arath demanded incredulously

"Just do it, Grandfather"

"We don't behave this way toward each other, Garion," the oldOrb

"The table," Garion repeated "Go over there and read"

Sas standing out on Belgarath's forehead Reluctantly, al him some obscure kind of pain, he went to the table and bent over the parchment sheet Then he shook his head "I can't see it," he declared, though a burning candle stood right beside the sheet "It's too dark in here"

"Here," Garion said, reaching forth with the glowing Orb, "I'll light it for you" The Orb flared, and its blue light fell across the sheet and filled the rooarath stared at hi expression "Garion-"

"Read it"

Belgarath dropped his eyes to the page lying before hiet this?"

"It was under that blot Can you see it now?"

"Of course I can see it" Excitedly Belgarath picked up the sheet and read it again His hands were actually tre "Are you sure this is exactly what it said?"

"I copied it word for word, Grandfather -right off the original scroll"

"Hoere you able to see it?"

"The saht of the Orb So," the oldby the wall, rued around for a moment, and then came back to the table with a scroll in his hands He quickly unrolled it "Hold the Orb closer, boy," he said

Garion held out the Orb and watched with his Grandfather as the buried words slowly rose to the surface just as they had in the shrine

"Absolutely aarath marveled "It's blurred, and some of the words aren't clear, but it's there It's all there How is it possible that none of us noticed this before -and how did you discover it?"

"I had help, Grandfather The voice told ht" He hesitated, knowing how much pain what he had to say would cause the old arath spoke his wife's na Ce'Nedra do soerous- and Poledra cao to the shrine in Drasnia and read the Codex and she specifically told , I almost left It all seemed so stupid somehow Then I reether As soon as I started reading by the light of the Orb, that feeling that I asting ht it was only ht a"It was an interdiction," he explained finally "Someone at some time put his will to that one spot and made it so repulsive that no one could even see it"

"But it's right there -even on your copy How is it that the scribe who copied it could see it well enough to write it down, but we couldn't?"