Temple 29

Chapter 29
This chapter is boring.
It's suddenly established that "only Richard and Kahlan . . . had heard what the dead boy had said," which makes no sense but whatever. Drefan says the corpse and the bedding need to be burned, and wants to know if Richard wants to make the knowledge of plague public or hush it up. He explains to Richard that if he wants to, the Lord Rahl can easily make up some excuse to have these people "imprisoned" and their possessions burned. By "imprisoned" I assume Drefan means "executed and buried in an unmarked grave," the Lord Rahl being a tyrannical autocrat and all.
Richard decides that keeping things quiet would be a bad idea, as word would inevitably get out and then no one would believe anything he said. Drefan warns him that "news of plague will spread like a firestorm," reminding Richard of the words of Jagang's prophecy.
Richard breaks the bad news to Yorick, then asks to see all the other boys who were on his Murderball team, fearing that they might be sick as well. Richard and Kahlan then have a private chat, where Kahlan blubbers a bit and insists that she didn't know, blah blah blah. Richard tells her not to "dignify Nadine's cruel lies with an explanation." I have to say, while it may have been cruel, nothing Nadine said was actually untrue. 
Richard then slams Nadine up against a wall and snarls at her that they were never going to be a couple, and if she is ever mean to Kahlan again, he's throwing her into the (empty) Rape Pit of Rapiness. Nadine "smiled patiently," and generally treats Richard like a little kid throwing a tantrum, which makes me laugh.
Richard and Drefan have a conversation about disease, and we learn that no one knows exactly what causes it or how it spreads, but being near the sick people is dangerous, and it's possible to have the plague for two or three weeks before manifesting any symptoms. Richard & Co. might all be deathly ill just from being in the same room as Kip, and there's no way to know. There, I just summarized two pages of chatter.
Drinks: None. That was hardly terrible at all.
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