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Wizards First Rule :: Goodkind Terry
Страница: 48 из 638"Zedd asks methat too. I guess it's just something I was born with. Sometimes I think it's a curse." He turned from the fire to face her again. "I'm sorry, Kahlan, for asking you what you saw there. It was a thoughtless thing to do. Sometimes my common sense doesn't keep up with my curiosity. I'm sorry I brought you pain. You being pulled back into the underworld, though, that shouldn't have happened, should it?"
"No, it shouldn't. It was almost as if when I thought back to what I had seen, someone was waiting to pull me back. I fear if you hadn't been here, I might have been lost there. In the darkness, I saw a light. Something you did brought me back."
Richard picked up the spoon while he thought. "Maybe just that you weren't alone."
Kahlan gave a weak shrug. "Maybe."
"I only have one spoon. We can share it." He took a spoonful of soup and blew on it before tasting it. "Not my best work, but it's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick." That had the desired effect: she smiled. He gave her the spoon.
"If I'm to help you to stay ahead of the next quad, to stay alive, I need answers. And I don't think we have much time."
She nodded. "I understand. It's all right."
He let her eat some soup before he went on. "So what happened after the boundaries went up? What about the great wizard?"
Before handing him the spoon she took a piece of sausage. "One more thing happened before they went up. While the great wizard was holding the magic at bay, Panis Rahl took a final revenge. He sent a quad out of D'Hara… They killed the wizard's wife, and his daughter."
Richard stared at her. "What did the wizard do to Rahl?"
"He held Rahl's magic back and held him in D'Hara until just as the boundary was going up. At that very moment he sent a ball of wizard's fire through it, letting it touch death, to give it the power of both worlds. Then the boundaries were there."
Richard had never heard of wizard's fire, but he didn't think it required an explanation. "So what happened to Panis Rahl?"
"Well, the boundaries were there, so no one can say for sure, but I don't think anyone would have traded their lot for that of Panis Rahl."
Richard gave her the spoon, and she ate some more while he tried to imagine the righteous wrath of a wizard. After a few bites she gave back the spoon and continued.
"At first everything was fine, but then the council of the Mid lands started taking actions the great wizard said were corrupt. Something to do with the magic.
"No, it shouldn't. It was almost as if when I thought back to what I had seen, someone was waiting to pull me back. I fear if you hadn't been here, I might have been lost there. In the darkness, I saw a light. Something you did brought me back."
Richard picked up the spoon while he thought. "Maybe just that you weren't alone."
Kahlan gave a weak shrug. "Maybe."
"I only have one spoon. We can share it." He took a spoonful of soup and blew on it before tasting it. "Not my best work, but it's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick." That had the desired effect: she smiled. He gave her the spoon.
"If I'm to help you to stay ahead of the next quad, to stay alive, I need answers. And I don't think we have much time."
She nodded. "I understand. It's all right."
He let her eat some soup before he went on. "So what happened after the boundaries went up? What about the great wizard?"
Before handing him the spoon she took a piece of sausage. "One more thing happened before they went up. While the great wizard was holding the magic at bay, Panis Rahl took a final revenge. He sent a quad out of D'Hara… They killed the wizard's wife, and his daughter."
Richard stared at her. "What did the wizard do to Rahl?"
"He held Rahl's magic back and held him in D'Hara until just as the boundary was going up. At that very moment he sent a ball of wizard's fire through it, letting it touch death, to give it the power of both worlds. Then the boundaries were there."
Richard had never heard of wizard's fire, but he didn't think it required an explanation. "So what happened to Panis Rahl?"
"Well, the boundaries were there, so no one can say for sure, but I don't think anyone would have traded their lot for that of Panis Rahl."
Richard gave her the spoon, and she ate some more while he tried to imagine the righteous wrath of a wizard. After a few bites she gave back the spoon and continued.
"At first everything was fine, but then the council of the Mid lands started taking actions the great wizard said were corrupt. Something to do with the magic.