Goodkind, Terry - Sword of Truth 14 - Severed Souls by Goodkind Terry

Author:Goodkind, Terry [Goodkind, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781429948449
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

CHAPTER

44

“Believe me,” Richard said, “I know how badly we need to be rid of this deadly poison, but in the meantime there are still—”

“I don’t think you do.” Irena was finished with being patient. Her expression turned serious in the way sorceresses had of turning serious. “That poison is deadly. We need to get it out of you. That is what matters above all else. Everything else can wait.”

“We know that,” Richard said, “and we will be able to take care of it just as soon as we get back to the People’s Palace. I assure you, I want this out of us more than you do, and I’m going to push to get us back to the People’s Palace as fast as we can. Besides needing to get there simply to heal us, we need to get there ahead of Hannis Arc.

“I’m pretty sure that’s where he’s headed. We have to push hard and get there first. I need to help them prepare for what is coming and set up defenses. The army needs to protect cities in the way of Hannis Arc and his half people.”

Irena seemed confused as she looked from one face to another. Her frown turned back to him. “Richard, it can’t wait until then. It needs to be done now. Right now.”

Zedd paused from scraping the rest of his stew over to the edge of his tin bowl where he could scoop it all up. “We are all concerned about healing them. Although you may not believe it, as his grandfather, I am even more concerned than you, Irena. That is above all else in all our minds at all times.”

“Good. So then we should—” she began again.

“But we have to get to the palace in order to do that healing,” Zedd continued with the solemn weight of authority as First Wizard.

Irena threw her arms up. “Dear Creator! Aren’t any of you people listening? It can’t wait that long!”

“It has to,” Zedd told her. “We need a containment field in order to do it.”

“A containment field? Why?” She gestured toward Zedd, then at Nicci. “We have a wizard and—well three—sorceresses, actually, right here, right now. We can all link our gift to multiply our power. Our linked ability will be strong enough to draw that deadly poison out of them.

“We need to get it out, now. That’s all there is to it. We need to get it done at once!”

“We agree with you that it needs to be removed and believe me, we share that urgency.” Zedd set down his bowl without taking the last bite. “But I’m telling you, it must be done in a containment field.”

As well as Richard knew his grandfather, he knew that something was wrong, and Zedd was trying to avoid saying that something aloud.

“Are you crazy, old man?” Irena said as she scowled at Zedd. “It can’t wait for the luxury of being at a palace to take care of it.”

“It will have to,” Zedd told her with a kind of quiet insistence that covered some deeper worry.

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