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"Where did you get all those?" Barak asked him.
"Here and there," Silk replied evasively.
"You stole them, didn't you?"
"Some of them," Silk admitted. "We've been on the road for a long time,
Barak."
"Do you really plan to carry all of that down the ravine?" Barak asked,
curiously eyeing Silk's treasures.
Silk looked at the heap, mentally weighing it. Then he sighed with
profound regret. "No," he said, "I guess not."
He stood up and scattered the heap with his foot. "It's all very pretty
though, isn't it? Now I guess I'll have to start all over again." He
grinned then. "It's the stealing that's fun, anyway. Let's go down." And
he started toward the top of the steeply descending streambed that angled
sharply down toward the base of the escarpment.
The unburdened horses were able to move much more rapidly, and they all
passed quite easily over spots Garion remembered painfully from the upward
climb weeks before. By noon they were more than halfway down.
Then Polgara stopped and raised her face. "Father," she said calmly,
"they've found the top of the ravine."
"How many of them?"
"It's an advance patrol - no more than twenty."
Far above them they heard a sharp clash of rock against rock, and then,
after a moment, another. "I was afraid of that," Belgarath said sourly.
"What?" Garion asked.
"They're rolling rocks down on us." The old man grimly hitched up his
belt. "All right, the rest of you go on ahead. Get down as fast as you can.
"Are you strong enough, father?" Aunt Pol asked, sounding concerned.
"You still haven't really recovered, you know."
"We're about to find out," the old man replied, his face set. "Move -
all of you." He said it in a tone that cut off any possible argument. As
they all began scrambling down over the steep rocks, Garion lagged farther
and farther behind. Finally, as Durnik led the last packhorse over a
jumble of broken stone and around a bend, Garion stopped entirely and
stood listening. He could hear the clatter and slide of hooves on the
rocks below and, from above, the clash and bounce of a large stone
tumbling over the ravine, coming closer and closer. Then there was a
familiar surge and roaring sound. A rock, somewhat larger than a man's
head, went whistling over him, angling sharply up out of the cut to fall
harmlessly far out on the tumbled debris at the floor of the escarpment.
Carefully Garion began climbing back up the ravine, pausing often to
listen.
Belgarath was sweating as Garion came into sight around a bend in the
ravine a goodly way above and ducked back out of the old man's sight.
Another rock, somewhat larger than the first, came bounding and crashing
down the narrow ravine, bouncing off the walls and leaping into the air
each time it struck the rocky streambed. About twenty yards above
Belgarath, it struck solidly and spun into the air. The old man gestured
irritably, grunting with the effort, and the rock sailed out in a long
arc, clearing the walls of the ravine and falling out of sight.
Garion quickly crossed the streambed and went down several yards more,