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it came
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Winds to behold a wonder that I might tell my brothers
and sisters of it when I returned at long last to Kell.
It was the worst time of the year for a journey, for the sea
raged and the wind oft-times threatened to drive the boat
which bore me to the distant isle beneath the hungry
waves. At length, however, I landed upon the strand at
the city of Riva upon the very eve of that holiday which all
men in the west observe. And the city was alive with the
news that the Orb of Aldur, which had been stolen away,
was to be restored on the morrow, and I contrived to be
present in the Hall of the Rivan King to witness the
restoration, for I believed that this was the wonder I had
been sent to witness.
But lo, as the child who bore the Orb and the young
Sendar who guided the child's steps entered the Hall, a
rapture seized me and all unbidden, the Vision descenddd
upon me, and I saw that the young Sendar was clothed all
in light, and when the child presented the Orb to him, I
heard a chorus of a million voices resounding from the
farthest star, and I knew that Belgarion had come at last.
And as the young man affixed the Orb to the pommel of
the great sword, and the blade leaped into flame to
declare his identity to those in the Hall and to all of
mankind as well, my vision continued, for lo, all
unnoticed, the child who had carried the Orb turned, and I saw
his face bathed in ineffable glory, and I knew that I beheld
the face of one of the two Gods between whom we must
one day choose. And because of what I had just seen, my
eyes grew dark and I fell down in a swoon.