Sword of Truth 11 Confessor by Terry Goodkind

Author:Terry Goodkind [Goodkind, Terry]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-05-17T22:14:45.735000+00:00

happen

occasionally."

"I've seen you try your best and come up just a little short and not be able to

make a score, or

make every effort to evade a charge of blockers and not quite make it clear, but

I've never seen

you make a foolish mistake."

"Sorry," Richard said. He couldn't see the point in arguing about it.

"I want to know why."

Richard shrugged. "Like you said, it was a foolish mistake." Richard was more

angry with

himself than the commander could ever understand. He couldn't afford a mistake

like that

tomorrow. "We won, though, so that means we will play the emperor's team. That's

what I

promised you-that I would get your team to a match with the emperor's team."

The commander's eyes turned up, gazing at the first stars of the night for a

moment, before

speaking. "You do remember being captured, don't you?"

"I remember."

His eyes turned back down to fix a stare on Richard. "Then you remember that by

all rights you

should have been killed that day. I let you live on the condition that you do

your best to win my

team this championship. Today, that was not your best. You nearly threw away my

team's

chance to win with a stupid move."

Richard didn't shy away from the man's gaze. "Don't worry, Commander. Tomorrow I

will do

my best. I promise."

"Good." Snake-face finally smiled, though it was a cold curve of his mouth.

"Good. You win

tomorrow, Ruben, and you get your woman."

"I know."

The smile turned sly. "You win tomorrow and I get my woman."

Richard wasn't really interested. "Is that right?"

Commander Karg nodded. "If we win, that shapely blonde with Emperor Jagang will

be mine."

Richard looked up with a dark frown of his own. "What are you talking about?

Jagang isn't going

to let you have someone like that, a woman marked as his."

"It's a little wager with the emperor. He's so confident that his team will win

that I got him to bet

his most prized woman on the outcome. Her name is Nicci. He calls her his slave

queen. Jagang

doesn't want to lose her to me, she's rather ... an obsession of his. But I

think you can win her for

me." His eyes focused into his own distant, lustful thoughts. "I would like that

very much-as

much as Jagang wouldn't like it, I expect." He returned to the matter at hand

and shook a finger

at Richard's face. "You had better win for your own sake as well."

"So that I can have my choice of a woman?"

"So that you can live. You lose tomorrow and you will have the death you should

have had after

you killed all of those men of mine." Commander Karg's sly smile returned. "But

if you win, you

will have your choice of a woman, as promised."

Richard met the man's gaze with a glare. "I already promised that I would do my

best tomorrow.

I always keep my promises."

The commander nodded. "Good. You win tomorrow, Ruben, and we'll all be happy."

He

chuckled. "Well, Jagang won't be happy-not one bit. Come to think of it, I don't

think Nicci will

be any too happy, either, but then that's not really my concern."

"And the emperor? Don't you think he will care?"

"Oh he will care, all right.

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