Chapter 2

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"Blah" speech

'Hmm…' thoughts

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In the citadel of Riva Garion the rivan king sat on his throne at another boring appointment on the subject of something he could not quite remember at this moment because at this moment he was fighting his hardest, using all his will to not fall asleep at this very moment.

It is not as if he did not understand the necessity of it. he was just so over worked right now. He had not had more than 4 hours sleep in weeks or months he couldn't quite remember. It wasn't any thing major it was simply if it wasn't one thing it was another. most nights He wouldn't get to sleep until late because of decrees, agreements and preparations that had to be read or made for the next day. When he finally did get sleep it would only be for 4 to 6 hours before something would come up whether it be a fight in the streets or a message from a friend in need of something.

The most troubling things that's been happening lately has been the accidents and odd occurrences that have been happening to his son who turned 12 recently, things would brake when he was angry or seemingly random things would move on there own. He had written aunt pol and she had come. She assured him it could be signs of pre-sorcery because there was a faint but recognizable sound associated with sorcery but he was worried, she left that same day, but his musing was interrupted.

The voice of his wife Ce'nedra drifted through the haze of his thoughts, as the meeting was over and he had started to drift into sleep again, "Oh, dear, you fell a sleep again didn't you?" she sighed

"I didn't miss anything important" he said 'did I?' he thought

"you need a vacation from all this, you can't even stay a wake through one meeting" she exclaimed

"a king can't just go on vacation, I have responsibilities now" he responded

"your staff can take care of things here while we are away" she argued.

After further discussion he agreed that they would go and visit aunt pol and durnik for at least a month then return making short stops to stay and enjoy the company of those they encountered on there journey.

After a departure with much fan fair and an overall uneventful journey they arrived at the edge of the vale, waiting for them were polgara(aunt pol)and durnik. Hugs and hearty greetings were exchanged as they set off toward the cottage, aunt pol explained that the twins were of to visit with the uncles being twins themselves. Upon arriving at the cottage they sat down to dinner when belgarath and poledra joined them

"your timing is impeccable as always father" aunt pol said with large amounts of snark in her voice.

"and why wouldn't it be?" was his response

For the week that follow there were no incidents or large emergency so is was as restful and peaceful as it ever seemed to get. Which was a very welcome thing to garion as he slept and rested to the full extent that he could, so well in fact that on the eve of the second week he decided to go out for a midnight hunt, not a hunt as some may define it,an apt term for the activity.

As he left the cottage he leaped in to the night becoming a wolf as he went. As a wolf even a slow speeds he could cover long distances in short times at full tilt he could traverse continents, and run for what seemed like forever. Doing so he felt free and without restrictions. He ran to the edge of the vale and then pasted it into a forest were he stopped. There he hunt for hours with no cares to bother him.

Over the past years since there adventures garion had become quite proficient in sorcery or the will and the word as his grandfather had titled it, experimenting and practicing with his power or talent, with this practice came fine control and a noted decrease in sound and a greater understanding of his "talent".

So it came as a great surprise that he heard a very distinct roaring sound in his head, on his way back from his hunt. It was very odd because it was coming from the cottage and unlikely that aunt pol or durnik would make that much noise

'I had better hurry back just in case' he thought as he leaped into the air and shifted fluidly from a wolf to a blue banded hawk and flew at top speed toward the cottage arrived just as belgarath and poledra approaching to see the corner of the cottage that geran and beldaran were to be sleeping in shambles with half the room on the grass to that side of the cottage chard and in pieces, there were things around the room that looked like it had been burned, smashed or exploded. That is except for the beds and the small area around them that looked untouched.

It looked as if one or both had had a nightmare because beldaran was in geran bed in stead of her own. Over the years they had become very close so close in fact that were it not for the two year age gap they could be twins. Becoming human again as he lands falling into step with his grandfather.

"grandfather that was very loud how many do you think heard it?"

"it would be hard to say but it would be hard not to hear that I haven't heard something this loud since the time that you scared off the gru off and made a sound so loud and so spread out that it shuck the whole continent." he replied as they made their way to the door where aunt pol waited for them.

"what happened?" garion asked

"lets take a minute and have a look shall we" and they do after retreating to the kitchen she continued "as you can you it appears they were having nightmares which I believe is the cause of the smashing because I hear that sound earlier so I went to look and by that point she was already in his bed then I when looking to talk to you," at this point she paused to look a garion "but, you weren't in bed."

"I, went for a walk or run I guess"he replied slightly embarrassed.

After a long conversation they decide that the fire and a lot of the smashed wall and things were what made the noise that got there attention. So they repaired the room and went to bed.

The next week was uneventful after that night no more incidents happened. There were some talks to the children about the concepts of sorcery and other topics. On the first day of the next week belgarath and poldera invited garion to go for a hunt with them. They spent most of the day like that. On their way back garion saw something or someone off in the distances.

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AN : wow that was a long wait I apologies for the wait

hope to have more updates up soon

R&R