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"He's a gold mine of information, isn't he?" Silk noted dryly. "
Most Melcenes love to gossip, but you've got to pry every word
out of this one."

"Melcene?" Garion said. "I didn't know that."

Silk nodded. " Atesca's a Melcene name. Kal Zakath has some
peculiar ideas about the aristocracy of talent. Angarak officers
don't like the idea, but there's not too much they can do about it
-if they want to keep their heads."

Garion was not really that curious about the intricacies of
Mallorean politics, so he let the matter drop, to return to the
subject they had been discussing previously. "I'm not quite
clear about what you were saying, Grandfather, " he said, "about
our going to Rak Hagga, I mean."

"Cyradis believes that she has a choice to make," the old man
replied," and there are certain conditions that have to be met
before she can make it. I've got a suspicion that your meeting
with Zakath might be one of those conditions."

"You don't actually believe her, do you?"

"I've seen stranger things happen and I always walk very softly
around the Seers of Kell."

"I haven't seen anything about a meeting of that kind in the Mrin
Codex."

" Neither have I, but there are more things in the world than the
Mrin Codex. You've got to keep in mind the fact that Cyradis is
drawing on the prophecies of both sides, and if the prophecies
are equal, they have equal truth. Not only that, Cyradis is
probably drawing on some prophecies that only the Seers know
about. Wherever this list of preconditions came from, though,
I'm fairly certain that she won't let us get to this 'place which is
no more' until every item's been crossed off her list."

"Won't let us?" Silk said.

"Don't underestimate Cyradis, Silk," Belgarath cautioned. "She's
the receptacle of all the power the Dals possess. That means
that she can probably do things that the rest of us couldn't even
begin to dream of. Let's look at things from a practical point of
view, though. When we started out, we were a half a year behind
Zandramas and we were planning a very tedious and time-
consuming trek across Cthol Murgos -but we kept getting
interrupted." .