The Legend of the Seeker: Trinity

Chapter Thirteen: Princess

In the dark woods, the Sisters of the Dark are circled around another Sister who lies on a stone, staring up at the sky.

"Fear not Sister Porsche, the Keeper of the Underworld will reward you for your sacrifice." A Sister says.

"I have no fear. I long only for his embrace." Porsche tells her.

"It will soon be yours." The sister who was speaking lifts a dagger high above Porsche's chest and plunges it down. Porsche lifts up a bit and grunts with the pain then falls back and dies. The speaking sister removes the blade as all the sisters begin to chant. A green glow envelopes the body of the dead sister culminating in a bright green ball of energy above her heart. The Sister looks over her shoulder. "Now!" A Mord-Sith enters their circle, leans above the dead Sister and gives her the breath of life, who rises with a gasp. "Sister Nicci?"

The former Sister Porsche, now Sister Nicci, looks around. "You brought me back."

"The Mother Confessor still walks, and only your Han is strong enough to kill her."

"I think I know a way to find her."

Richard, Kahlan, Zedd, Trinity, and Cara are in the dark woods. Kahlan is carrying fire wood as Richard and Zedd sit by the fire cooking and Trinity lies wood on a stomp, stepping back so Cara can chop it.

"How about some rosemary?" Richard asks.

Zedd lets out an appreciative sound as he takes a spoon full of the soup, Kahlan drops down the branches and looks at them. "Hmmm, good." Zedd says.

Richard nods his head and smiles in agreement. Cara puts her hand on her hip as she stops chopping and looks at the men, Trinity turning to look as well. "What would your mothers say?" Cara asks.

"About our ability to create ambrosia delights from roots and herbs scavenged from the wilderness?" Zedd asks.

Cara shakes her head. "No. About two strong men fussing over the fire while the women chuck wood for them." She says. Kahlan gives Richard a look as he has a little smile.

"On a good team; each member performs in accordance with their abilities. And judging by your recent attempts to produce approximating corn cake it might be best for you to stick to chopping." Zedd teases.

Cara's face turns serious at the slight to her cooking ability; she savagely swings down the axe and chops the wood while staring at Zedd. Richard has a smile with a slight laugh; he opens his mouth to say something but jerks his head up in surprise when he hears a loud growling/screeching sound. He pulls out the Sword as Kahlan spins around looking for the source. A gar swoops down out of the night and picks up Kahlan.

"No!" She screams.

Richard stares up at the wings above his head carrying Kahlan off into the night. When he looks up he sees that there are two gars, they have Kahlan by each of her hands and are carrying her between them. "Kahlan!" Richard runs to his horse and jumps on going after them.

"Richard wait!" Zedd yells.

But he doesn't wait, he spurns his horse forward. Cara, Trinity, and Zedd move to follow him. Richard keeps his sights on Kahlan and he can hear her screaming and grunting trying to be released. "Kahlan!" He stops when the gars fly her away and he can no longer see them to follow. Zedd, Trinity, and Cara have caught up with him. "They flew over that ridge. I can't see which way they went."

"Gars are hungry beasts, only trained ones save their prey until later, and the only trained gars in the Midlands are the personal pets of the Margrave of Rothenberg." Zedd tells him. Richard turns to look at Zedd. "The richest man in all the territories."