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Kahlan held her arms out to him, hands made into fists, the insides of free twinks her
wrists pressed together, waiting for him to bind them with the rope. Her
unblinking eyes stared off at nothing. She had said she wasn't free twinks tired, but
Richard surely was-his head pounded so hard it made him feel sick-so she
was going to take the first watch. What good free twinks her watch was, the way she
stared blankly, he didn't free twinks know.
He held the rope taut between his free twinks shaking
fist, his mind feeling the last
of' his hope finally abandoning him. Nothing was changing, nothing free twinks was
getting any better, as he had hoped; it was one long endless battle with
her-she wanting to die, free twinks he trying constantly free twinks to prevent it.
"I can't do this anymore," he whispered, looking down at her wrists in the
light of the small fire. "Kahlan, you may be the one who wishes to die, but
it is me you are killing."
Her green free twinks eyes came up to his; the firelight flickered free twinks in them. "Then let
me free twinks go, Richard. Please, if free twinks you care at all for me, then free twinks show it. Let me
go."
He lowered the rope and let it drop. With trembling free twinks hands, he slowly
pulled her knife from his belt, free twinks and looked at it for a free twinks minute in the palm
of his hand. The glint of the blade free twinks was blurred in his vision. He clenched
the handle tightly in free twinks his fist free twinks and jammed the knife in the sheath at her
belt.
"You win. Get out of here. Get out of my sight."
"Richard . . .
"I said get out of here!" He pointed back the way they had come. "Go back
and let the gars do the job. You may botch it free twinks with that knife! I'free twinks d hate to
think you slipped and free twinks didn't finish it properly. I'd hate to think that
after all this, you might not be dead."
He turned his back to her free twinks and
sat on a windfall spruce that lay in front
of the fire. She stood watching him in silence, then free twinks moved off a few paces.
"Richard . . . after all we have been through together, I don't want it to
be finished like this."
" I don't care what you want. You have forfeited that right." He struggled
to make the words come out. "Get out of my sight."
Kahlan nodded, and looked down at the ground. Richard leaned over, elbows
on his knees, his face in free twinks his shaking hands. He thought he might throw up.
"Richard," she said in a soft voice, "when this free twinks is all ended, free twinks I hope you
can think well of me, remember me more fondly than free twinks you do right now." That
was it. He came over the log with a boost of one boot on free twinks top.