Temple 10

Chapter 10
Kahlan and Nadine are pursuing Jagcard, who has slaughtered his way through the soldiers guarding the area. Sure is a good thing they were there, eh? All one hundred of them. Nadine insists that she's coming along to help, and I'm not sure whether that makes her brave or just stupid. Kahlan explains that “If I can touch him, I can kill him.” She also stops to explain that if Nadine is touching Jagcard at the same time, Kahlan won't hesitate and Nadine will die too, needs of the many, you know the drill. In any case, Kahlan recruits some Nameless Grunts from among the surviving soldiers, and off they go.
Also, Kahlan's left arm in injured and useless. Nadine reminds her to hold the wound shut, though why she doesn't take a second to rip off some fabric and bind it I don't know. Yes, they're chasing Jagcard, but he's already lost an arm; would ten seconds make that much of a difference?
Nadine and Kahlan and the Nameless Grunts continue to look for Jagcard as Kahlan infodumps the events of the previous books for Nadine's benefit. I think there's a little revisionist history there, but it's minor stuff and I don't care enough to double-check. They get to the sewers, because every video game needs a sewer level, and medieval sewer systems were so spacious and clean and existent.\~/
At every fork, half the Nameless grunts go left and the other half go right. Eventually it's down to our protagonists and two Grunts, so at the next fork the two Grunts go one way and Nadine and Kahlan go the other. Graceful, Terry, very graceful. There's a lot of tense exploration of wet tunnels and rats and water and God it's so tense I almost fell asleep. This goes on for about 2 ½ pages. Our Heroines end up in chest-deep running water somehow.
The chapter ends thusly:
“Nadine turned to start out. Suddenly a huge shape erupted from the black depths. Water sluiced from Marlin as he bobbed up and snatched Nadine's ankle with his one hand. She shrieked as she was yanked feet-first into the inky water.”
Drinks: 1
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