Wizard 18

Chapter 18
Richard and Kahlan stroll casually into the pass. Kahlan mentions that Adie is a sorceress, which is “ 'more than us, but less than a wizard.' “ Again with the sexism. Shouldn't a sorceress just be a female wizard? Richard wonders what a mind vampire can do, and what a not-female-wizard can do that would be more than that.
They walk. Richard wonders how he's going to find the last box of Orden. He recites the Book of Counted Shadows to himself, hoping for ideas. “Since it was an instruction book for the boxes, it should have a way to stop their use, but there was nothing like that in the book. The actual explanation of what each box would do, directives to determine which box was which, and how to open one, took up a relatively small portion at the end of the book.”
Wait; the Magic Book is about the Magic Boxes? Where did this come from? It hasn't been mentioned before; Richard hasn't even thought about it before, even when Zedd was infodumping about the boxes. And now it's just casually referred to. It sounds as though Richard should have known exactly what the snake vine meant, and what the boxes of Orden were, and so forth.
Richard and Kahlan start seeing shadow-things which lurk about here and there. They're scary and weird, but they don't actually do anything. They get more numerous. Eventually they come to the Narrows, where there are hundreds of shadows and an army of spiked pillbugs – I mean, grippers. And the trail has been washed away, by...underworld flooding, I guess.
It's, y'know, tense.
Drinks: None. : (
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