Temple 18

Chapter 18
Richard and Drefan chat for a bit. Richard thanks Drefan for helping Cara, and asks if they have any surviving siblings. Drefan isn't sure, but thinks they may have a (half) sister named Lindie. Drefan then does healer stuff to Kahlan, easing the pain of her arm and trying to soothe her headache. However, Kahlan finds herself staring at the swell of his manhood, and has a sudden flashback to him groping Cara, so she says she's fine.
Richard asks Drefan to help with the sick men in his army, and they part ways. In the hall outside of Kahlan's rooms, she and Richard snog for a bit and then head into her rooms and have an uninteresting two-page conversation. Then they snog some more and soon clothes start coming undone and hands start roaming. Suddenly, Nadine walks in! She apologizes to Kahlan and offers to check her poultice, which Kalhan refuses.
Nadine then smarts off to Richard: “Just going to throw her down on the bed and lay claim to her, like some girl you come across in the woods? Seems a bit crude for the high and mighty Lord Rahl. I thought you were pretending you were better than us common folk.”
No, Nadine. Richard is just plain better than scum commoners like yourself. Terry Goodkind makes sure to grind that into our faces at every chance.
Nadine stalks off, and Kahlan calls her a whore again. She's not a whore, you hypocritical bitch. She's a dim-witted woman who made a bad decision. Having sex with someone you're not eternally committed to does not make you a fiend straight from the pit, even if it's not especially laudable. Get over yourself.
Richard and Kahlan talk about waking the sliph and traveling to Mudtropolis to get married, and reaffirm that they are the Twuest of Twu Wuvs, saying that “we're already one, in our hearts” and suchlike. They part ways, Kahlan returning to “her empty, lonely rooms.” Geez, get a hold on your hormones, woman. What are you, sixteen?
Richard goes and has a chat with Cara and Raina about his kissing technique. Yes, really. We learn that Richard is an expert smoocher, because God forbid our Sue be less-than-perfect at anything. \~/
They talk about Drefan, and agree that the timing of his arrival is suspicious, but since he hasn't yet done anything they'll just keep an eye on him. Cara mentions that he is the High Priest of the Raug'Moss, which troubles Richard. “Raug'Moss,” it appears, is High D'Haran for “Divine Wind.”
So Drefan is a kamikaze priest?
And does this mean the order of healers to which he belongs worship the wind? A god of winds? Wind spirits? The concept of moving air? Something? Anything?
Dammit, Goodkind. \~/
Drinks: 2
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