Blood 33

Chapter 33
Kahlan & Company are setting up camp in an abandoned farmhouse. Kahlan speculates that the previous tenants were horribly murdered by the Imperial Order, and we segue smoothly to Zedd being hungry and wearing silly clothes. \~/\~/ We learn that Kahlan has finally grown bored with tormenting and bullying my hero Chandelier, and he has at last been permitted to return home to his own people. Godspeed, Chandelier; you have earned your happy ending a dozen times over.
There's a brief recap on Orsk, the one-eyed D'haran Kahlan mindraped, and the death spell on Kahlan that makes everyone think she's dead. Well, everyone except Zedd, Adie, Jebra the Seer, Ahern the arms runner, Chandelier, Harold and Captain Ryan (and Richard, of course). Apparently the death spell, in addition to making people believe she is currently dead, messes with their memories, so the Army of Children remembers her only as Queen Kahlan and not as the Mother Mindrapist.
This makes absolutely no sense given what we were told of death spells. \~/
There's a page of Cyrilla being traumatized and Kahlan comforting her, which is actually well-written and believable. Next, we get our merry band of misfits pondering their military situation. Short version, Harold thinks they can assemble nearly a hundred thousand troops, but that's not going to be enough. Nicobaritaly is fighting a civil war, they think Kelton will side with the Imperial Order, various other nations will go with Kelton for economic reasons, blah blah. Kahlan mentally fawns over Richard for a bit \~/ and we learn what her real concern is. In all this talk of war and betrayal and death and tyranny, “What held her in the grip of terror, was the thought of being the Mother Confessor who lost the Midlands.” 
It's not the idea of the Order winning that bothers her; it's how that would reflect on her reputation. Charming.
We learn that Jebra has been having visions of Zedd with wings being dropped into a ball of fire, and of Kahlan running in circles. How very useful. Kahlan and Zedd quibble for a couple of pages about Kahlan wanting the death spell taken off her, and Zedd saying they can't afford to make her a target. Zedd also states that only he can remove the spell: “ 'If you were to announce that you were the Mother Confessor, people would believe you no more than if Jebra were to announce that she was the Mother Confessor.' ” The only other way to remove the spell (wait, I thought Zedd said that only he could remove it?) would be for “' 'another with the gift [. . .] to deduce your true identity.' ” 
What?
How does that work?
\~/
Kahlan wanders outside to check on the men. It's cold and dark, and suddenly, a Something is there! Oh noes!
Drinks: 5
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