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‘Where’s Perivor?’ Garion asked Zakath

‘It’s an island off the south coast of Dalasia,’ the Mallorean replied ‘The inhabitants there are very strange Their legends say that they’re descendants of some people from the ere aboard a ship that was blown off-course and wrecked on the island about two thousand years ago The island’s of little value, and the people there are fearsoeneral opinion in Mal Zeth has always been that the place wouldn’t be worth the trouble it would take to subdue it, and Urvon didn’t even bother to send Grolierous for us to go there?’

‘No Actually they’re civil and even hospitable – as long as you don’t try to land an ars start to take a turn for the worse’

‘Have we really got the tio to this place?’ Silk asked the Seeress of Kell

‘Ample time, Prince Kheldar,’ she replied ‘The stars have told us for eons that the Place Which Is No More awaits the co of thee and thy companions, and that thou and thy companions will co’

‘And so will Zandraentle little s if the Child of Dark be not also present?’ she asked hilimmer of humor there, Cyradis,’ he bantered ‘Isn’t that a bit out of character for one of the seers?’

‘How little you know us, Prince Kheldar’ She shter at soths to which others go to ignore or avoid that which is pre-ordained Submit to the instruction of the heavens, Kheldar Spare thyself the agony and tur to evade thy fate’

‘You throw the word fate around awfully lightly, Cyradis,’ he said disapprovingly

‘Hast thou not coinning of days? All thy concern with coe have been but a diversion to occupy thee until the appointed day’

‘That’s a polite way to tell so like a child’

‘We are all children, Kheldar’

Beldin ca tree trunks with deft shifts of his wings He settled to earth and changed forarath asked hied ‘And that worries me a bit’

‘Isn’t that a little inconsistent?’

‘Consistency is the defense of a sht?’

‘As far as we know’

‘Then she has to follow us to the ht?’

‘Unless she’s found some other way to find out where it is’