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‘Nay Thy performance of that task would be ’

‘And what is my task, Holy Seeress?’ Zakath asked her ‘You said you would instruct me here at Kell’

‘I must reveal that to thee in private, Ein when thy companions have completed theirs, and it will consu about tasks,’ Sadi said, ‘perhaps you could explain un it, Sadi’

‘A well, yes’

‘I ht do a little better if I knehat it is’

‘Nay, Sadi Even as Belgarion’s, thy task would beto very far?’ Durnik asked her

‘Many leagues, and there is yet much to be done’

‘I’ll need to talk with Dallan about supplies, then And I think I’ll want to check the horses’ hooves before we start This ain’

‘That’s iarath suddenly burst out

‘What is it, father?’ Aunt Pol asked hi is supposed to take place at Korim!’

‘Where’s that?’ Sadi asked in puzzlerowled ‘It’s not there anye that sank into the sea when Torak cracked the world The Book of Alorn h Places of Koriic to it,’ Silk observed ‘That’s what these assorted prophecies havewhen they talked about a Place Which Is No More’

Beldin tugged thoughtfully at one ear ‘There’s so else, too,’ he noted ‘You remember the story Senji told us back at Melcene? About the scholar who stole the Sardion? His ship was last seen rounding the southern tip of Gandahar, and it never caone down in a stor to sound as if he was right We have to go where the Sardion is, and I’ve got the unco on top of a o’

CHAPTER EIGHT

THE QUEEN OF Riva was in a pensiveuor seeh the forest to the west of Kell, a languor that greweneral conversation, but was content merely to listen

‘I don’t see how you can be so cal to the blindfolded Seeress as they rode along ‘Your task will fail the sa at the botto this side trip to Perivor?’

‘It is there that the instruction thou received froarath’

‘Couldn’t you just explain it to me yourself? We’re a little pressed for tiive thee any aid which I do not also give to Zandramas It is thy task – and hers – to unravel this riddle To aid one of thee and not the other is forbidden’

‘Solumly