‘it will take my knowledge and my power, and use them. It threatens only me, now. But if it enters into me and possesses me it will work great evil through me.’ ‘That is true. If it defeats you.’ ‘Yet if I run again, it will as surely find me again … And all my strength is spent in the running.’ Ged paced on a while, and then suddenly turned, and kneeling down before the mage he said, ‘I have walked with great wizards and have lived on the Isle of the Wise, but you are my true master Ogion.’ He spoke with love, and with a sombre joy.
