Stone of Tears

Adie gaped at him. “I don’t see bones. I see flesh.”

It was hard to tell because the eyes were as dark as the rest of it, except when the light caught them just right, then they gleamed a golden color.

As you said, the Keeper lusts for those with the gift more than any other. I knew that if I began teaching him, used magic very much myself, the gaze of danger would settle on him

oes Richard have the gift?"
Zedd lifted his eyebrows as he nodded. "Indeed he does. That was one reason I hid him

Adie folded her arms with a muttered curse

“I don’t really remember their voices telling me what must be done. It was more of a feeling that filled me with the need. My son—he looked up—’the one who died… he was with me, and heard them also.

“Richard, I…”
“What you felt was the least of what the Agiel can do.” He picked it up again and touched the tip to the inside of his other forearm. Blood gushed from under the Agiel. He took it away.

The questions were beginning to make the older women nervous, and to frustrate Kahlan.

The seamstresses back in Aydindril had nothing over Weselan with her fine bone needles. They settled on a simple design fashioned something like a kirtle.

I hold the Sword of Truth, and the responsibilities that go with it, whatever they are