The Scribbly Man (Children of D'Hara #1) by Terry Goodkind

Author:Terry Goodkind [Terry Goodkind]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781789541175
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Shale sagged a little as she wiped a weary hand back across her face. “I’d prefer not to have to get into it just now, not after what’s happened today, and not after I spent so much time and energy in a difficult healing, but I can see that you aren’t going to be satisfied until you know the truth. I will give you the gist of it, but ask that we discuss it in detail later, after I have had some rest.”

Richard shrugged. “Fair enough.”

“I admit there is more to why I’m here. You say you ask those things which need to be asked. There are things which I need to ask as well. I came for answers to those things.”

“Such as?”

Her bewitching eyes looked up at him from under her brow. “Such as why are the stars not where they belong in the sky? Why are the stars all jumbled up so that I no longer recognize them?”

Richard let out a long sigh. “Oh, that.”

Her look darkened. “Yes, that. I have a feeling that only you could be responsible.”

Richard lifted a hand in a gesture reflecting his discomfort about the subject.

“I had to initiate a star shift. It was an act of desperation.”

“I see that you are going to make me chase you round and round and then strangle you until you answer.” She gave him the kind of dangerously sober look that seemed unique to witch women. “What is a star shift, Lord Rahl,” she said slowly and carefully, “and what was the desperation?”

“It had to do with an evil that had festered for thousands of years, and a war that had never really ended. An emperor from that time rose up from the grave, tearing the veil between life and death in the process. He intended to join the underworld and the world of life, foolishly believing he could rule over it all.”

Her mouth opened in surprise. “Combining them would have only destroyed both!”

Richard’s brow lifted. “Glad you grasp the problem. To stop him from finishing what he had already begun to do, I had to use the boxes of Orden for

their true purpose—initiating a star shift.”

“Boxes of Orden?”

“Ancient magic, constructed spell and all that,” he said with a dismissive gesture that said that wasn’t the important point.

“And that put this evil spirit back in his grave where he belonged?”

“It did,” Richard said. “It healed the veil and ended the ancient war that had smoldered all that time only to finally reignite. I can’t begin to know how many people died because of that evil man. People we all know and loved died. Too many good souls never had a chance to live their lives because of him. Many more would have died if I hadn’t done something. Everyone would have died. I had to put a stop to it.

“I did it in the only way that could work. It changed our world, I admit that.

But I don’t regret what I did. It saved life itself.”

“But

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