take a day to break away {belgarath}

[Belgarath]

Belgarath certainly isn’t watching where he’s going. No, it’s up to the others to get out of his way. She is such a little thing anyways. Hardly worth his attention (not till she grows older and adds some curves to her hips). He is not a wolf; he is a polar bear, a glacier, an ice kraken. Does anyone know what an ice kraken can do? The destruction he might be capable of?
No?
Neither do I. Want to find out?

He halts suddenly when something bumps against his chest and glares down. The half-grown girl is all wide-eyed and trembling, though whether it’s because her nose might be hurting or his terrifyingly (in his mind) large stature. The first thing he notices isn’t the freakish bark on her face, but her eyes, and how strikingly green they are. They catch him by surprise for a moment, but he shakes it off more quickly than she does. Oh, oh wouldn’t she be a lovely addition to his collection when she gets older? She reminds him vaguely of Spyndle, that useless, flighty woman, and the way she froze when Ruin replaced Belgarath. She was loads of fun.

His mind briefly goes to their daughter and he wonders what that unfortunate girl is up to. Probably dead somewhere.

“Quite alright, dear... Tell me, where are you going in such a hurry?” And all of a sudden, he feels like the big bad wolf. Huffing and Puffing and waiting to just Gobble Her Up.


BELGARATH
No mercy to what we are doing, no thought to what we have done
No need to feel the sorrow, no remorse for the helpless one