Seeress of Kell by David Eddings

Author:David Eddings
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Fantasy, C429, Extratorrents, Kat, Epic
ISBN: 9780552148061
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 1991-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Part Three

THE HIGH PLACES OF KORIM

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

GARION HAD SEEN his grandmother – or her image – several times, but the similarity of her features to Aunt Pol’s seemed uncanny. There were differences, of course. Aunt Pol’s hair, except for that white lock at her brow, was dark, almost black, and her eyes were a deep, deep blue. Poledra, on the other hand, had tawny hair, hovering nearly on the verge of being as blond as Velvet’s, and her eyes were as golden as the eyes of a wolf. The features of the two women, however, were almost identical, as had been, the one time Garion had seen her image, the features of Aunt Pol’s sister Beldaran. Belgarath, his wife, and his daughter had withdrawn to the far side of the room, and Beldin, his tears glistening through his scowl, had placed himself squarely between them and the others in the room to guard their privacy during their reunion.

‘Who is she?’ Zakath asked Garion in puzzlement.

‘She’s my Grandmother,’ Garion replied simply. ‘Belgarath’s wife.’

‘I didn’t know he had a wife.’

‘Where did you think Aunt Pol came from?’

‘I guess I hadn’t thought of that.’ Zakath looked around, noting that both Ce’Nedra and Velvet were dabbing at their eyes with wispy little handkerchiefs.

‘Why is everyone so misty-eyed?’ he asked.

‘We all thought that she had died in childbirth when Aunt Pol and her sister Beldaran were born.’

‘And how long ago was that?’

‘Aunt Pol is over three thousand years old,’ Garion shrugged.

Zakath began to tremble. ‘And Belgarath’s been grieving all that time?’

‘Yes.’ Garion didn’t really want to talk just then. All he wanted to do was to drink in the radiant faces of his family. The word came to him unbidden, and he suddenly remembered that bleak time after he had first learned that Aunt Pol was not, strictly speaking, his aunt. He had felt then so terribly alone – an orphan in the most dreadful sense of the word. It had taken years, but now everything was all right. His family was nearly complete. Belgarath, Poledra, and Aunt Pol did not speak, for speech was largely unnecessary. Instead they simply sat in chairs drawn closely together gazing into each others’ faces and holding hands. Garion could only faintly begin to understand the intensity of their emotions. He did not, however, feel cut off from them, but rather seemed somehow to share their joy.

Durnik crossed the room to the rest of them. Even solid, practical Durnik’s eyes shone with unshed tears. ‘Why don’t we leave them alone?’ he suggested. ‘It’s a good time to get the packing done anyway. We have a ship to catch, you know.’

‘She said you knew,’ Ce’Nedra said accusingly to Garion when they had returned to their room.

‘Yes,’ he admitted.

‘Why didn’t you tell me?’

‘She asked me to keep it to myself.’

‘That doesn’t apply to your own wife, Garion.’

‘It doesn’t?’ he asked in feigned surprise. ‘When did they pass that rule?’

‘I just made it up,’ she admitted. ‘Oh, Garion,’ she said then, throwing her arms about his neck and kissing him, ‘I do love you.

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