Stone 27

Chapter 27
We're back to Kahlan, who's traveling with Chandelier, Prim and Tossy. They're looking at a large, empty city which turns out to be Ebinissia, the capitol of Galea. Kahlan is wearing a white wolf fur mantle, made from a white wolf that Prim and Tossy killed and skinned for her. Now, I'm no Daniel Boone, but I know that tanning hides takes a certain amount of time. Either Our Heroes killed a wolf, then waited in one place for a week or more while the pelt was tanned, or Kahlan is wearing smelly, stiff, sticky uncured hides. Neither makes much sense. \~/
We learn that Kahlan has been teaching the three Mud People to speak English, and so in whatever undetermined amount of time it's taken, they are all reasonably fluent. It's still winter, so it can't possibly have been more than three months, and probably a lot less. Kahlan and Chandelier bicker at each other for a bit, then Kahlan angsts about how mean she was to Richard (which is true, and understandable, so no drink).
We learn that Kahlan and the Boyz have been finding dead people along the road for the past two days, all women and children, mostly half naked. Nice. Prim and Tossy come back (apparently Kahlan sent them to spy on Ebinissia) and report that they say “Dead men...more than I know the words to count.” Kahlan, naturally, decides to enter the dead city full of mutilated corpses.
Kahlan notices a hole burned in the city's stone walls, and deduces that only wizard's fire could have done that. She thinks that Zedd and Richard are the only wizards left (yes Kahlan, they're the only wizards left in the entire world), but we know this has to have been Beardy, who was to hook up with Prince Fyren. There's some infodumping on Ebinissia, which successfully defended itself against Darken Rahl's forces. Oh, and corpses. Lots of corpses. Kahlan estimates five thousand.
She directs Prim and Tossy to circle the city and report back while she and Chandelier go in. There are more dead people everywhere, including old men and boys. Kahlan notes that there are no corpses of attackers, only Ebinissians. She speculates that the attackers must have been superstitious about leaving the bodies of their allies behind, and “One nation, above all, sat at the head of her roster.” 
Kahlan and Chandelier go into an herbalists shop and find some quassin doe, which is a plant and a Plot Device antidote to Chandelier's ten-step poison. This takes two pages. Another few pages are taken up with Kahlan explaining concepts like “locked” and “money” and “specialization.” There's a tailor's shop with dead people inside.
Look, I'm explaining this as best I can.
Anyway, Kahlan starts plodding towards her destination (we aren't told where it is) and the chapter ends.
Drinks: 1
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