Temple 11

Chapter 11
Nadine smacks Jacgcard in the face with her torch, which causes him to release her, and then he gets swept away by the current. Kahlan and Nadine share a Moment, which ends when Kahlan “remembered why Nadine was there, and who sent her.”
She's there because you won't let her leave, you hypocrite, despite Cara, Richard, and Nadine herself all saying she should. \~/
They chase after Jagcard, who throws wizard's fire at them. They duck into the water and escape. Kahlan thinks about how if they surface, Jagcard will kill them, but if they stay underwater they'll drown. But! Kahlan has a Cunning Plan! Said cunning plan seems to consist entirely of swimming closer to Jagcard underwater and hoping he won't notice.
Jagcard started this chapter by hiding under water to ambush Nadine. \~/
I should also mention that Kahlan is dragging a struggling, panicked Nadine around underwater this whole time, because Nadine cannot swim. Through the deep, clean, spacious medieval sewers.
So Kahlan swims underwater dragging Nadine, or rather, “The wet wrath of water swept them away in its frigid flux.” There's a confusing couple of pages where the women sneak up on Jagcard, who is trying to break into the Wizards' Keep, Nadine clubs him like a freakin' badass, and Jagcard is about to fall out . . . somewhere or other.
Oh, and Jagcard mocks Kahlan's attempts to get him to talk: “Darlin, you're deluding yourself if you think I would reveal anything I don't want you to know.”
I kinda like Jagang. Or at least, I hate him less than I do the “heroes.”
Anyway, Kahlan ends up with her hand on Jagcard's throat. They then spend an entire page conversing on how super-awesome and unstoppable Kahlan's Mindrapist power is, nu-uh, dream walkers are way better than Mindrapists, nu-uh, uh-huh, like a pair of first graders. \~/ Kahlan finally mindrapes Jagcard, but it doesn't work. Picard dies, and Jagang escapes.
“Nadine . . . cried out in the pain of being so close to a Confessor's power unleashed.”
This has never happened before.
[Nadine says] “I wasn't touching him, when you used your magic, but I thought every one of my joints had popped apart.”
This has never happened before.
Kahlan has been in close proximity to several people whilst mindraping others. Richard in book 1, the Imperial Order soldiers in Book 2 when she mindraped Orsk, the inhabitants of the Rape Pit of Rapiness . . . and there has never been a hint of any sort of “splash effect.” There's always been the “thunder without sound,” but pain? Pain inflicted on anyone who happens to be nearby? I think that would have been noticed. \~/\~/
It's almost as if Goodkind is making this crap up as he goes along without making an effort to keep things consistent. But what do I know? I'm just a dumb, drooling fantasy fan.
Kahlan ends up leading the way back to safety, because Nadine is hopelessly lost while Kahlan took note of all the turns and the sound of the water and so on, just to remind you that Nadine sucks and you should hate her.
Drinks: 5
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