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"Sit down, dear," she suggested "There's so I have to talk with you about"

"Yes,on the bench there

"Garion" She turned to look at hi happen while you were in Salmissra's palace?"

"What do you mean?"

"You knohat Ito e me ask certain questions, are you?"

"Oh" Garion blushed "That! No, nothing like that happened" He reret

"Good That was the one thing I was afraid of You can't afford to get involved in any of that sort of thing just yet It has some peculiar effects on one in your rather special circumstances"

"I'm not sure I understand," he said

"You have certain abilities," she told hi before they're fully matured, the results can sometis at this point"

"Maybe it'd be better if so had happened, then," Garion blurted "Maybe it would have fixed it so I couldn't hurt people anyreat to be neutralized so easily Do you remember e talked about that day e left Tolnedra - about instruction?"

"I don't need any instruction," he protested, his tone growing sullen

"Yes, you do," she said, "and you need it now Your power is enormous - more power than I've ever seen before, and soin to understand it Youdisastrous happens You're totally out of control, Garion If you're really serious about not wanting to hurt people, you should behow to keep any accidents fro"

"I don't want to be a sorcerer," he objected "All I want to do is get rid of it Can't you help me do that?"

She shook her head "No And I wouldn't even if I could You can't renounce it,to be a o around burning people alive or turning theet so used to it that it won't even bother randfather - but I won't be human anymore Aunt Pol, I think I'd rather be dead

"Can't you reason with him?" Her voice inside his head spoke directly to that other awareness

"Not at the ara, " the dry voice replied "He's too busy ing in self pity "

"He must learn to control the power he has," she said

"I'll keep him out of mischief, " the voice proarath gets back He's going through a moral crisis, and we can't really tamper with him until he works out his own solutions to it "

"I don't like to see hiara He's a sturdy boy, and a bit of suffering won't da rily

"Mistress Pol," Durnik said, co across the deck to the to kill hi about so to fall on his sword"

"That idiot! Where is he?"