Wizard 14

Chapter 14
Our Heroes make their way through the swampy forest full of dead trees and mosquitoes, and Richard passes the time thinking of all the nice things he wishes he could do for Kahlan. Who he's only known for five days, and yet is in love with. I'm beginning to think there aren't many women in the Westland. Anyway, they finally reach the boundary, which appears as a green glow pressing against Chase as he walks forward. So it's not a wall or a curtain, nor does it kill you if you touch it.
Chase find a big long stick and pokes it through boundary, and the end inside disappears. The stick jerks around and he pulls back a broken-off stick covered with heart hound saliva. Not sure why the hounds don't come out and attack, since Our Heroes are standing about six feet outside of the boundary, but they don't.
Chase and Richard walk into the green light and hear buzzing sounds. These turn out to be the voices of the dead! Richard sees his dead father and tries to go to him, but Chase drags him back. Apparently they weren't really in the boundary; the green light is a sort of in-between place (a boundary boundary, if you will).
Blah blah, Zedd guesses they have between two and six weeks before the boundary falls completely. Richard asks if Zedd can strengthen it, and Zedd replies, “I don't have that kind of power,” despite being the guy who created the boundary in the first place.
Apparently Darken Rahl can “travel the underworld,” which directly contradicts what we were told in Chapter 5.
Richard decides that the figure he saw inside the boundary wasn't really his father, but was one of “Darken Rahl's disciples.” His logic, apparently, is that Rahl = bad, and ghost in the boundary = bad, therefore, ghost in the boundary = Rahl. There's also reference to Rahl's “followers in the underworld,” which still doesn't make sense. \~/
Suddenly, a black Something leaps out of nowhere and grabs Kahlan. There's a brief action scene, and Richard destroys the ghost that looks like his father (his sword hurts ghosts, it seems) and rescues Kahlan, but Zedd and Chase are knocked out. Richard and Kahlan bundle them onto horses and set off with heart hounds in implied pursuit.
End chapter.
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