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"Is Torak's body at Rak Cthol?" Silk asked quickly

Mister Wolf shrugged "Nobody knows for sure, but I doubt it After Zedar carried him away from the battlefield at Vo Mimbre, I don't think he'd have just handed him over to Ctuchik He could be in Mallorea or soos It's hard to say"

"But at the moment, Chamdar's the one we have to worry about," Silk concluded

"Not if we keepthen," Barak said, standing up

By un to break up, and patches of blue sky showed here and there Enorht stalked ponderously across the rolling fields that waited, da With Mandorallen in the lead they had ridden hard and had covered a good six leagues Finally they slowed to a walk to allow their stearandfather?" Garion asked, pulling his horse in beside Mister Wolf

"Sixty leagues at least," Wolf answered "Probably closer to eighty"

"That's a long way" Garion winced as he shifted in his saddle

"Yes"

"I'ized

"It wasn't your fault Chaames"

"Why did he pickto Durnik - or Barak?"

Mister Wolf looked at hier, more susceptible"

"That's not really it, is it?" Garion accused

"No," Wolf admitted, "not really, but it's an answer, of sorts"

"This is another one of those things you aren't going to tell me, isn't it?"

"I suppose you could say that," Wolf answered blandly

Garion sulked about that for a while, but Mister Wolf rode on, seely unconcerned by the boy's reproachful silence

They stopped that night at a Tolnedran hostel, which, like all of the the sky had cleared except for billowy patches of white cloud scaht of the sunbetween Silk and Barak as they rode along - so Garion hadn't heard in all the weeks they'd spent traveling under the gloomy skies of northern Arendia