Book 1, Chapter 7 Summary

One day in the winter, Merlin rode up to the cave on his pony, Aster, to visit Galapas. Galapas was not there at first, and Merlin began reading on his own. When Galapas returns, Merlin asks him how he knew he would be in the cave, when he had first came there. Galapas tells Merlin that he saw him in the cave. Merlin asks to be shown how.

Galapas lights a candle and tells Merlin to take the rug off the mirror that is in the cave. He tells Merlin to go to the cleft in the cave and lye down. He is to watch only.

Galapas walks away, and Merlin sees slaves and young boys working in a cave, removing rocks and stones. He cans see the brand on one of their arms. There was a man in a brown...