‘There is no safe place,’ Ogion said gently. ‘Do not transform yourself again, Ged. The shadow seeks to destroy your true being. It nearly did so, driving you into hawk’s being. No, where you should go, I do not know. Yet I have an idea of what you should do. It is a hard thing to say to you.’ Ged’s silence demanded truth, and Ogion said at last, ‘You must turn around.’ ‘Turn around?’ ‘If you go ahead, if you keep running, wherever you run you will meet danger and evil, for it drives you, it chooses the way you go. You must choose. You must seek what seeks you. You must hunt the hunter.’
