Can you even begin to imagine how torn I feel? I can't sleep with worry, and not only worry for Kahlan. «Do you really think I don't care about all the innocent people under the threat of the horde coming to slaughter and enslave them? I do care.
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It's almost as if I know she's in some dark river somewhere, calling for help, and I'm the only one who can hear her, who knows she in terrible danger of drowning.» I mean, if she got sick and died, then I would be devastated, yet eventually I know I would have to deal with the business of life. I realize that I can't explain it to anyone's satisfaction, but I just can't do that. «Richard,» she said in a soft, silken, sympathetic voice, «I know it's hard to say it's over - to say it's over, and realize that you have to move on.» Could he just desert all of them in order to chase around, forever looking for Kahlan? He thought often of all the countless good people he didn't even know who also had loved ones under mortal threat from the coming storm of the Imperial Order.
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He was so tired of the ever growing doubts, not just about Kahlan, but about himself.Īt the same time, he was being crushed under the weight of guilt for not answering the call to lead the D'Haran people against the terrible threat to their freedom. He swallowed as he experienced one of those brief but terrifying moments when he wondered if she ever had been. The sliph's well was empty, the sliph off somewhere with her soul. He couldn't imagine what good it would do him to wander around without a plan, without any idea where to look for Kahlan. At least, nothing specific, not at the moment, anyway. He could think of nowhere else to go, nothing else to do. As much as he didn't want to admit it, he feared that Nicci was right. Richard rubbed his fingertips across his brow. If not now, then when is the time to finally face reality?» You've exhausted all your ideas, all your options. No one knows anything about Kahlan, or Chain-fire, or the rest of it. «Where will you go? What can you do next? You've been to Shota, and you came here to Zedd. «I have to find her.» He looked back at Nicci. The last time he had traveled in the sliph he had taken Kahlan to the mud people so they could be married. Richard slowly paced off a ways, trailing his fingers along the top of the stone wall around the sliph.
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I understand the value of one life you love-even if she were real -but to some extent don't you think you have to balance that one life against the lives of everyone else?» And in the bigger picture, that prophecy makes the stakes pretty clear. Maybe it's time you thought about the bigger picture. «It's been a while since that night down at the grave. That begs the question of why? Why was it different than you said it would be? The only possible answer I can think of is that someone put it there with the idea that you would find it.
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Digging up the grave failed to prove what you thought it would-at the very least. «No, but it certainly does prove one thing: that you were wrong about what we would find there. «Like you said, that body down there didn't prove anything.» You can't go on chasing after your dream while the rest of the world faces the end of everything good-the end of all their hopes and dreams.» «I mean, what are you going to do about the things they had to say? What are you going to do about the war? The time has come, and I think you know it. «What are you going to do about Ann and Nathan?» «Richard,» Nicci said in a soft voice as he started to leave. «Cara is probably fit to be tied by now.» «We'd better get back up there and let Zedd know we're all right.» Richard's thoughts returned to the immediate problems.