Temple 30

Chapter 30
Short one.
Richard & Co. head off to check on Kip's teammates, and soon find one dead and another bedridden with plague. As Drefan lances swellings in unnecesary detail, \~/ Nadine apologizes to Kahlan, saying she was frustrated and lashed out, and it wasn't Kahlan's fault. 
Richard muses that "Forgiveness was not forthcoming simply because someone asked for it. The transgression was weighed into the equation, and there were transgressions that outweighed absolution." Which may be true, but it's certainly a very cold and clinical way to put it. It makes it sound like Kahlan is a machine, devoid of empathy, who reasons out whether the person apologizing has reached a certain threshold of reparations before deciding whether or not to dispense forgiveness. While I have no doubt that Kahlan is a soulless, empathy-deprived monster, I rather doubt that's what Terry Goodkind was going for here.
Also, Nadine said some nasty things. That's it. She may be almost as bright as an asparagus, but nothing has yet convinced me that she is the evil, scheming witch I am so clearly meant to believe she is. \~/
Anyway, we move on to another household, and while the boy isn't sick, his sisters are. In a scene that goes on a little too long (and details the lives and descriptions of people we will never see again, making it thoroughly pointless), we learn that the sisters have the plague, and they and every other kid who has had it so far spoke with two Mysterious People after the Murderball game. The Mysterious People can only be Marlin and the Nun, Sister Amelia, and they showed each child a Black Box of Blackness with glowy, sparkly sand inside. 
The chapter ends with Richard explaining this to Drefan, and thinking about the prophecy again.
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