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"I never lost nothin' in Gandahar Them folks is all crazy down there They spend all their tionna do with a elephant once y' catch 'im? An' the fish down there aren't worth the bait Besides, this is the first time I've had this dock all to et my line in the water, there's soto his feet a little regretfully, "I suppose we'd better push on We're going to have to find a boat somewhere"

"I'd sure advise stayin' away from the Darshiva side, friend," the fisherman said seriously "You'd be better off t’ cut yerself a pole an' sit right here with me until all the trouble blows over''

"I certainly wish I could," Durnik sighed "Good luck, friend"

"Just bein' here with my line in the water is the best luck in the world" The fellow shrugged, turning his eyes back to the floating stick on his line "If you go over to the Darshiva side, try not t' get et by demons"

"I'll make a special point of it," Durnik pro the rickety dock to where their horses were tethered, Durnik smiled They talk differently in this part of the world, don't they?"

"Yes," Ganon agreed, re in the wayside tavern above the plains of Voresebo

"I sort of like it, though," Durnik admitted "It's kind free and relaxed and easy, somehow"

"I wouldn't necessarily try to ih, if I were you," Garion advised "Aunt Pol ht wash your mouth with soap if you did"

"Oh," Durnik smiled, "I don't think she'd really do that, Garion"

Garion shrugged "She's your wife--and it's your rassy hill rising the village on the riverbank "Well?" he asked The fish are biting," Durnik told hiarath stared at hiroaned "I meant in Darshiva," he said between clenched teeth

"I couldn't really say for sure about that, Belgarath, but they're biting on this side, it only stands to reason that they'd be biting over there, too, doesn't it?"

Durnik's face was very sincere, and his tone was earnest Belgarath turned and sta to himself When they rejoined the others, Garion briefly repeated the inforleaned from the solitary man at the end of the dock

That puts a whole new cos, doesn't Silk said "Nohat?"

If you don't arath "I think we arion o on river to Gandahar and find a boat there It er, but we'll avoid the dee mute's usually impassive face had a worried frown on it He estures to Durnik

"He says we don't have time," the smith translated

"Is there soet to Kell?" Silk asked

Toth gestured again, his big handsrapidly

"He says that Kell has been sealed off from the rest of Dalasia," Durnik told theh, but once she leaves, the other seers will seal it off again"

"Leaves?" Belgarath said with soly at Toth, and the estured soarath "She needs to go to the place of thesoon She has to be there when it happens so that she can make the choice"