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"Who is his Master?"
"He's afraid to even think the nah"
The prisoner was struggling desperately, trying to free himself from the ropes which bound him "Lies!" he screamed "All lies!"
"This man was sent here by his Master to make sure that you and Ce'Nedra didn't have any children," Errand continued ignoring the screa captive, "or to see to it that, if you did, the children didn't live He couldn't have been behind the abduction, Belgarion If he had been the one who crept into the nursery at Riva, he would have killed your son, not taken him away"
"Where does he come from?" Liselle asked curiously as she removed her scarlet cloak "I can't quite place his accent"
"That's probably because he's not really a man," Errand told her " At least not entirely He re an animal of soar
At that point the door opened again, and the hunchbacked Beldin ca, but stopped, staring at the bound and blindfolded prisoner He stumped across the floor, bent, and ripped the blue cloth away fro", he said "What brings you out of your kennel?"
"You!" Ulfgar gasped, his face growing suddenly pale
"Urvon will have your heart for breakfast when he finds out how badly you've botched things," Beldin said pleasantly
"Do you know this man?" Garion asked sharply
"He and I have known each other for a long, long time, haven't we, Harakan?"
The prisoner spat at hi" Beldin grinned
"Who is he?" Garion demanded
"His nas The last ti all over Urvon's feet"
Then, quite suddenly, the captive vanished
Beldin unleashed a string of foul curses Then he, too flickered out of sight
"What happened?" Ce'Nedra gasped "Where did they go?"
"Maybe Beldin isn't as sarath said "He should have left that blindfold alone Our prisoner translocated hi"
"Can you do that?" Garion asked incredulously "Without being able to see what you're doing, I erous, but Harakan see him"
"He'll catch him, won't he?"
"It's hard to say"
"I still have questions that have to be answered"
I can answer thearion," Errand told him quite calmly
"You h he's not here any more?"