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"The aer it will be until the hurt is gone"

"That is true," the wolf adaway, I think"

Polgara bathed the injured paw in the pungent juice froain, packed it over the wound, and replaced the bandage "We will not have to do this again, little sister," she told her patient "The hurt is nearly gone"

"I arateful," the wolf said siain? The thing which runs on round feet is most uncomfortable to sit in, and the she who makes it run talks ara advised "Give the hurt that hed and laid her chin on her paws

They carried water froara cooked supper After they had eaten, Belgarath rose to his feet "Let's have a look around," he said to Garion "I want to get an idea of e're dealing with"

Garion nodded and stood up The two of the Silk's supper out to him The little ht, to stand watch "Where are you going?" he asked, sitting down on a rock to eat

"We're going to nose around a bit," Belgarath replied

"Good idea You want ?"

"No You'd better stay here and keep your eyes open Warn the others if anybody coe" Then the old e line, and the two of theed back and forth so many times in the past few months that at tiun to blur and, oftentimes, even when he was in his hue of wolves He loped along behind the great silver wolf, considering this peculiar loss of identity

Belgarath stopped "Keep your ," he said "Your ears and nose won't be "

"Yes, revered pack-leader," Garion replied, feeling very e and they were covered with shame when it happened When they reached the spot where the side of the ridge had been sheared away by the earthquake, they stopped The foothills that sloped doard the plain were dark Urvon's army was obviously under orders to build no fires Out on the plain itself, however, the watch fires twinkled in profusion like s arrandfather

"Yes," the old ht take quite a while Even Nahaz's de to need a lot of tier the better They can take all week, if they want to We could be halfway to Kell by then"

Belgarath looked around "Let's go on up the ridge a ways and have a look"

"All right"

Despite Beldin's warning that there her foothills, the tolves encountered no one "They probably went back to report," Garion heard Belgarath's voice speaking in his , et so before first light They were all subdued as they ate breakfast Although the two ar each other below them were composed entirely of enemies, none of them took any particular pleasure in the prospect of the bloodshed the day would bring After breakfast, they carried out the packs and their saddles and, last of all, they led out the horses

"You're quiet thistheir ht be so to happen today"

"Not really," Zakath told him "Their positions are too firmly fixed It's too late to turn it back now The Darshivans will advance, and Urvon's arh battles to know that at a certain point things become inevitable"