Rage flashed in Cara's eyes and understanding on how her son had been killed. Sarah looked down and continued her story.
"Darken Rahl had me kill countless children to make sure I wouldn't disobey him. Then he had me kill only his heirs. I killed your son, Cara, I'm so sorry." Cara looked at her.
"What is done is done," Cara said.
"Please kill me," Sarah said. Cara looked at her and saw the early stages of blood loss. Sarah was going to die if she didn't get help. Or she could kill her and end it; she did kill my son, Cara thought. She remembered how Sarah became her rival and then her second-in-command really. She had counted on her, time and time again. Cara sighed. Sarah went limp in her arms and that brought Cara back.
"Damn it, Sarah. Don't you go dying on me yet," Cara told her. She yanked out the arrows and cut the rope holding the dying Sister. Cara put Sarah over her shoulder and started to run back to camp.
When Cara got to the camp, holding a dying Mord-Sith, everyone stopped what they were doing. Cara put Sarah on the ground.
"Wizard can you heal her?" Cara looked at Zedd and Zedd looked surprised. He looked at Richard.
"Cara…Are you sure?" Richard asked. Cara nodded and saw Kahlan cross her arms.
"We were broken together. She's not like the others."
"Cara, how do you know that?" Kahlan asked.
"She called Darken Rahl by his name," She said, omitting the fact that Sarah had cried. It might have helped her case, but Sarah was proud and wouldn't have liked to have people know about her crying. Cara would use it as a last resort though. Zedd looked at Richard and Richard nodded. Zedd started to heal her.
"Cara, where's the bow?" Richard asked. Cara looked around and realized that she had left it back at the tree and told Richard so.
"I'll go get it," he said and started to walk off.
"There are some different looking arrows that were shot into her," Cara said.
"I'll go with you, Richard. I might be able to tell where the arrows came from," Kahlan said. Richard nodded and they set off.
"Are you alright?" Zedd asked.
"I'm fine, why wouldn't I be?" Cara said and that make Zedd smile. She's worried, he thought, that's good, but why this woman? Why this Mord-Sith? He moved her shirt up so that he could heal her stomach wounds. He saw a paw print make right over her belly button.
"Where did you get this?" he softly whispered to the unconscious woman.
"She's had that for as long as I have known her," Cara said. Zedd healed the stomach wounds, and then went to sit down by a tree to rest. That mark, he thought, I recognize it. Where have I seen it?
"If your tired you can rest, I'll watch," Cara said. Zedd nodded and went to sleep thinking about the paw print. In his dreams, he saw huge wolves and blood and he saw the elemental powers. Earth, Air, Water, and Fire. The wolves, blood, and elemental powers unsettled him, but what really scared him were the shots of lighting. He couldn't remember what they were, what this meant. Than the word came to him, and above everything else that came to his mind, he was scared of it. The word: Shape shifter.