CHANDALEN KNOWS

Author's Note: Yes this part is from the books. I love the mud people and I can't erase them as the TV series did. But, although this is from the book (book five – Richard & Kahlan's wedding in the Mud peoples village) this is based of the TV series.

"You love her don't you?" Cara turned her eyes, and saw that the Mud people's warrior was staring at her. She turned her eyes back onto the scene before her. Kahlan was walking alongside Richard among the Mud people whom were happily welcoming them back to the village.

"Kahlan is my friend. She has taught me a lot of things outside of my village. For that I will be forever be in her services." Chandalen calmly said. "I want my friend Kahlan too be happy. Richard with the temper is a good man. A strong man. A good warrior. A good mate." He saw that the Mord'Sith's throat was trying to fight down the vile that threatened to come up. He continued. "But Richard with the temper isn't meant to be the mate of the Mother Confessor."

"I don't love anyone." Cara growled out. "I am Mord'Sith. We bring pain and misery. Not love." Her blue eyes glinted with tears. Tears that she was fighting back to where they belong. Tears that refused to be fought back. She tried to blink so one could tear that she was tearing up. She hoped she was successful. But she knew she was not. She just prayed that she wouldn't notice. As long as she was so wrapped up in Richard than she wouldn't be paying any heed to anyone else.

"Even those who bring pain and misery can love someone. Even those who bring pain and misery deserve love." Chandalen simply stated. He knew that this blond woman beside him had a lot of hurt buried deep within her. That every single one of her scares told more sad and horror than any of his own scares. He knew that this Mord'Sith didn't carry any of her battle scares with pride. Expect the ones she got defending Richard and the Mother Confessor. The new ones that he had pointed out when he first set eyes on the blond.

"You do not know anything, Chandalen." Cara said in a flat tone. "You are a Mud person. A Mud Warrior. You do not know of the outside world."

"Kahlan brought me to the outside world." Chandalen replied.

"You don't understand the outside world. You just learned a small amount of it from the Mother Confessor. But you returned to your village the moment you knew the Mother Confessor was safe with the Wizard." Cara stubbornly jetted her chin over to where Zedd was sitting with the Bird Man, and Ann.

"Chandalen knows what true love is. Chandalen knows what soul mate love is." Chandalen replied in a firm voice. "Chandalen knows that the Mother Confessor doesn't love the Seeker as a woman loves a man. Chandalen knows that Richard with the temper isn't the right husband for Kahlan. Chandalen knows Kahlan's heart."

Cara twisted and put her right hand on the muscular man's throat. "If you ever say those words ever again, Chandalen, than those will be the last words you will ever speak." She tightened her hold on him.

"You can kill me. But you can't kill the love you have for Kahlan." Chandalen calmly looked straight into her stormy blue eyes. "Chandalen may not know everything about the outside world. But love isn't from the outside world. Love is for everyone and everything. From the lowly dung beetle – to the Queens of the world. So go ahead and kill Chandalen."

Cara jerked her hand from his throat. "You don't know anything. You are just a Mud warrior." She turned around and meet the green eyes of Kahlan. Her frown darkened at the concern in her green eyes.

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