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"You found nothing at all, then?" Beldin asked

Belgarath grunted "There was one passage in the Oracles that said that the Dark God will corip his stomach "Torak?" he said "Is that possible?"

"I suppose you could take it to mean that, but if that's what it really one to the trouble of destroying so es? If the entire purpose of the Oracles was to predict his own return, I expect that he'd have been overjoyed to keep the that old burnt-face was rational," BeIdin growled "I never noticed that quality in hi Torak did was perfectly rational -as long as you accepted his basic notion that he was the sole reason for creation No, I think the passageelse"

"Could you read any part of the Mallorean Gospels at father?" Aunt Pol asked hi about a choice between the Light and the Dark"

Beldin snorted "Now that would be so very unusual," he said "The Seers at Kell haven'tsince the world wason the fence forafternoon, the Sendarian army came into view on the snowy hilltops to the west Garion felt a peculiar twinge of pride as the solid, steady ht of as his countryh the snoard the now-doootten here sooner," General Brendig apologized as he rode up, "but we had to ed down"

"Are they all right?" Queen Porenn asked him quickly

"Perfectly, your Majesty," the one-aro anywhere, that's all"

"How much rest will your troops need before they'll be ready to join the assault, Brendig?" Belgarath asked hiht to do it, Ancient One"

"That will give us tiet your men bivouacked and fed, and then Garion can brief you on the way things stand here"

In the strategy , they ses of their relatively siines would continue to pound the city throughout the next day and on into the following night On the next ainst the south gate to draw as many cultists as possible away from the hastily erected fortification inside the city Another force would march out of the secure enclave in the north quarter of Rheon to begin the house-by-house occupation of the buildings facing the peri on an inspired notion of General Brendig's, would use scaling ladders as bridges to go across the housetops and drop in behind the newly erected walls inside the city

"The ar alive," Garion cautioned "We have to get some answers from him I need to know just what part he played in the abduction of my son and where Geran is, if he knows"

"And I want to know just how many of the officers in my army he's subverted," Queen Porenn added

"It looks as if he's going to be doing a lot of talking," Yarblek said with an evil grin "In Gar og Nadrak we have a nuues"

"Pol will handle that," Belgarath told hi to that sort of thing"

"Are you getting soft, Belgarath?" Barak asked