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"No, dear," she said firmly "You just need a bit of practice, that's all" His third atteet the knack of coordinating his wings and, tail, but he still felt clu ineffectually at the air

"Garion, don't fight with it Let it lift you"

They circled the meadow several times in the shadowless lu black from the city and the burned-out shipyards in the harbor as he followed Polgara in a steady upward spiral As his confidence increased, he began to feel a fierce exhilaration The rush of cool , and he found that he could lift hiher almost effortlessly By the tier an eneun to master the hundreds of reatest possible efficiency out of his feathers

Belgarath swooped in to join the?" the fierce-looking falcon asked Polgara

"He's almost ready, father"

Good Let hiet started There's a colu off that lake over there That alwaysand veered away in a long, smooth arc

"This is really very fine, Pol," Durnik said "I should have learned how to do this years ago"

When theyfrom the surface of the aters of the lake, Garion learned the secret of effortless flight With his wings spread and un, he let the air lift hiher and higher Jarvikshole, and its harbor was thick with reen in thesunshine The sea was azure, and the snowfields on the higher peaks were so intensely white that they almost hurt his eyes

"How high would you say we are?" he heard Durnik ask Belgarath

"Several thousand feet"

"It's sort of like swi, isn't it? It doesn't reallythe top of it anyway"

"I never really thought of it that way" Belgarath looked over at Aunt Pol "This should be high enough", he said in the shrill, falcon's whistle "Let's go to Riva" The four of the the Cherek coast behind and flying out over the Sea of the Winds For a ti breeze aided them, but at the breeze dropped, and they had to work for every mile Garion's shoulders ached, and the unaccusto made the muscles in his chest burn Gri waves on the Sea of the Winds, looking froht alht

The sun was low over the western horizon when the rocky coast of the Isle of the Winds ca the east coast and spiraled down at last toward the uplifted towers and battleray over the city of Riva

A sentry, leaning idly on his spear atop the highest parapet, startled as the four speckled falcons swooped in to around hied with astonishment as they shimmered into human for to bow and hold on to his spear at the same time

"What happened here?" Garion demanded