Wizard 35

Chapter 35
Having finished their pity party, Richard and Kahlan decide they need horses. They head for the nearest town, Horners Mill, where Kahlan intends to steal two horses. Oh wait; it's not stealing because she's the Mother Confessor. \~/
They reach the town and find it full of dead people. Written in blood on one of the buildings is “Death to all who resist the Westland.” They find some survivors, and learn that, yes, the town was butchered by Westlanders, although Richard refuses to believe it. Apparently the armies of D'Hara treated the townsfolk fairly and even left a detachment behind to protect them when they moved on, but the Westland armies slaughtered the D'Harans and committed various atrocities on the townsfolk.
Umm...aren't the D'Harans supposed to be the bad guys? Now I'm confused.
So Richard and Kahlan decide to heroically leave the survivors (an old man, a boy, two women and some girls) to their own devices in the ruined town full of rotting corpses – after they've been traumatized by the not-Westlanders – while they head on to Tamarang.
Back to Rachel. She's been hiding under trees with her no-longer-creepy doll Sara and her loaf of Doomsday Bread. She's lurking under a wayward pine and pondering her fate, when two strange people burst in. I'm going to go ahead and tell you it's Richard and Kahlan, and even though we're seeing them from Rachel's perspective, for the first time ever, Richard gets ZERO description, and Kahlan is only described as having long hair. That's it. They could be the Invisible Man and Cousin Itt. \~/
Rachel is terrified of Kahlan because she has long hair, and long-haired women are always trouble. Strangely enough, she warms right up to Richard, causing my estimation of her intelligence to drop. Oh wait; it's because all good people instinctively love the Sue. My mistake. \~/
Anyway, they eat fish and then Kahlan wants to have a slice of Rachel's Doomsday Bread. Rachel freaks out and says the bread is for her grandmother, who lives in...Horners Mill. There's an awkward silence, and then Richard explains that there's no one left at Horners Mill (except for the traumatized children you callously abandoned!), but not to worry! Richard and Kahlan will take Rachel with them to Tamarang to see the Queen! Isn't that a great idea?
Richard wonders whether this is a good idea (no doubt hoping to leave yet another child behind), to which Kahlan replies, “We will see to her before I skin Giller.”
Rachel, justifiably alarmed at this casual plan to torture and murder her friend, waits until Richard and Kahlan are asleep. She then sneaks away with Sara and her Doomsday Bread.
Drinks: 3
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