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Garion stared back at the scarred face of his eneely not afraid The contest between thein, and so deep within his mind told hi "He doesn't know, does he?" he asked Aunt Pol And then he laughed "How like a woara You've kept the secret from him simply for the sake of the secret itself I should have taken hio"

"Leave hinored that "What's his real naara? Have you told him yet

"That doesn't concern you," she said flatly

"But it does, Polgara I've watched over hiain "You've been his mother, but I've been his father Between us we've raised a fine son - but I still want to know his real nah, Chamdar," she said coldly "What are your terara," the Groli to the place where Lord Torak awaits theMy hand will be about the boy's heart the entire ti to destroy each other fighting over the Orb - unless Belgarath finds them first and destroys them himself - but the Orb doesn't really interest me It's been you and the boy I've been after fro to stop us, then?" she asked

Cha to help you Ctuchik and Zedar both have underlings here in the West I've delayed and deceived theh I knew that sooner or later Belgarath would find it necessary to pursue the Orb alone, and when that happened, I could take you and the boy"

"For what purpose?"

"You still don't see?" he asked "The first two things Lord Torak sees when he awakens will be his bride and hisin chains before hiift"

"Let the others go then," she said

"The others don't concern me," Chaine he'll find it convenient to keep theot what I want"

"You swine!" Aunt Pol raged helplessly "You filthy swine!"

With a bland smile Chamdar slapped her sharply across the face "You really ara," he said Garion's brain see restrained by the legionnaries, but no soldier seeer He started toward his eneer

"Not that way!" It was that dry voice in his er passive, disinterested

"I'll kill him!" Garion said silently in the vaults of his brain

"Not that way!" the voice warned again "They won't let you - not with your knife "