Goodkind, Terry - The First Confessor by Goodkind Terry

Author:Goodkind, Terry
Language: eng
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“Isidore told me that the dead must heed them.”

Merritt glanced her way but didn’t say anything, so she did. “I can testify to the truth of what she said.” Magda joggled the cloth. “This is what stopped that monster, that dead man, from getting at me. He wouldn’t go past it. Isidore said that the dead must heed the things she drew.

That’s another reason that I believe that this man who kiled her and was trying to kil me was actualy dead. He heeded this warning.”

Merritt glanced her way. “That might be true, but it’s not necessarily the case.” He took the cloth, draping it over an arm as he paced across the room, puling folds aside one at a time

as he considered the symbols lying across his arm.

“This is very disturbing, though,” he muttered. “These are keeper spels, meant to ward the dead.”

“Keeper spels? Merritt, why was Isidore worried about dead people? Why did she have these keeper spels drawn on hangings in the halways around her that stopped the dead?”

He looked back at her a moment. “Perhaps

because she had reason to fear them, or perhaps it was only a precaution. She was dealing with the world of the dead after al. That was her profession. Besides that, she was searching for spirits that are trapped in this world. Those spirits belong to the corpses that General Kuno took from Grandengart.”

“But those are spirits of the dead. Not the

dead themselves.”

“What are you getting at?”

“What if what I’ve heard is true, and some of those wizards down there realy are able to bring the dead back to life, or not realy life, but, wel, you know what I mean. What if they are creating monsters out of dead people? Mindless slaves to do their bidding?”

Merritt arched an eyebrow as he handed her back the silky cloth. “I have learned not to dismiss things that sound preposterous, but do you realy believe that?”

She took the cloth from him and folded it back up. “I don’t know what I believe.” She lifted the bundle. “But I sleep under this.”

She thought he might laugh at her. He didn’t.

“Good girl,” he murmured as he turned

away in thought.

“Merritt, there are too many things

happening that make no sense. I fear that something terrible is going to happen before I can figure it out, and no one but me seems to care.”

“I care,” he said quietly.

She was momentarily caught off guard. She hadn’t expected him to say that. It was what she had hoped for, more than she had hoped for, in fact. It was why she had come to see him in the first place. But she hadn’t expected it.

“Thank you,” she whispered.

“You’re right that there are too many unexplained things happening. Not only the things you mention, but others as wel. In isolation, they each might seem innocent enough, or might be able to be explained away, but when you consider the larger picture, those things together

become suspect.”

“Do you know anyone who could help us

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