Sarah bolted awake and shot up only to be pushed down to the ground. Her initial reaction was to fight back, but when she was held down.
"Relax," Cara told her. Sarah looked up and saw Cara on top of her with her Agiels in her hands. Sarah laid down and relaxed. Cara saw this and took her foot off Sarah's chest. Sarah looked around and saw a fire on the far right, along with a tall man with white shoulder length hair. To the left was a tall man with short brown hair along with the Sword of Truth. So there's the Wizard and the Lord Rahl. Where is the Mother Confessor? Sarah thought. There was a sound that came from the left of her, close to Lord Rahl and there the Mother Confessor stood. She had long brown hair and was in traveling clothes. Sarah looked for weapons on the Confessor and only finding the daggers in her boats.
"I thought you were going to kill me, Cara," Sarah said to the blond Mord-Sith. Cara smiled.
"I would be better if you stayed alive," Cara answered, "However, if you prove to be a threat I will kill you."
"Who would kill whom first?" was Sarah's only reply, but she said it with a smile. This was an old thing between the two. The wizard looked towards her with a grim face. He looked to have been frightened. "You had me healed. Do you have any idea what that damned wizard saw? What could have happened?" she yelled at Cara, it only just dawning on her that her wounds were healed. Cara only shrugged.
"What do you mean by "what could have happened"," Richard asked. The Confessor crossed her arms looking at her. Sarah only glared at her.
"She's a shape shifter, Richard. Darken Rahl was messing with fire by having that one trained," Zedd said.
"That one has a name," Sarah said glaring at the wizard.
"What could have happened?" Kahlan asked. She only knew a little bit about shape shifters and it was only myths.
"Three things could have happened. First, her mind could have destroyed mine. Second, I could have sent off her ability to counter magic, thus repealing my magic back to me. The third is the worst thing that could have happened out of the three," Zedd said, taking a breath he continued, "She could have changed and went on a killing rampage. Which probably happened while she was being trained." He finished and looked at her. "Luckily, I'm a Wizard of the First Order and I realized what happened just in time to counter act it."
"The wolf isn't happy with you," Sarah said, "She believes you invaded our territory, which you did, and thinks you should pay for it."
"I have no doubt that you would pay me back for it," Zedd said smiling. Sarah narrowed her eyes. Sarah tried to stand up and would have ended up falling down if Cara hadn't have caught her hand and pulled her up. Zedd continued, "Did you have any luck with those arrows, Kahlan?" Kahlan shook her head and said "I've never seen this type of arrows before."
"That's because they are D'Haran and they are of the Lightening Village," Sarah said.
"Why did they want to kill you?" Richard, the true Seeker and her Lord Rahl, asked. Sarah stood up straighter and looked at him.
"In my training I killed my father, which was the Elder of the Lightening Village," Sarah answered.
"Why is it called the Lightening Village and is it the village you came from?" Richard asked. Sarah looked up to the sky and cocked her head sidewise, trying to come up with a good explanation. She had asked her father that once, when she was young, and he had told her that she would understand when she was older. Now she was older and she still didn't understand. Probably because I never really grew up in the Village, She thought.
"It is the village I came from, I don't know how to explain why it is called what it is," Sarah said.
"The shape shifters get the names of her villages by whatever power they possess," Zedd said. Sarah looked at him and crossed her arms, thinking.
"What powers?" Kahlan and Sarah asked at the same time, causing them to glare at each other.
"Many shape shifters don't have elemental powers. However, the Elders, or alphas or leaders, of the villages do have them. There are five villages, each having an Elder. The villages are in the form of a pentagram. To the far north is the Lightening Village, to the northwest is the Fire Village, to the northeast the Water Village, to the southwest the Earth Village, and to the southeast the Air Village," Zedd explained.
"Alphas? So they are set up like the wolves themselves do?" Richard asked. Cara looked at him and than to Sarah. Sarah shrugged and said, "It makes sense. From what I remember as a child, we are taught that we are wolves that were given, by the Creator, the power to become humans."
"Shouldn't there be an Alpha pair above the Elders?" Cara asked. Sarah raised her eyebrow and shrugged.
"There was the Eldest," Zedd said, "But the Eldest hasn't shown up in this generation or the last."
"This is fascinating and everything, but Lord Rahl, your brother Darken Rahl, has a former Sister of the Dark and is planning on using her to re-establish the bound between him and the D'Harans," Sarah said. Richard looked up at her.
"What was the Sister of the Dark's name?" Kahlan asked.
"I don't remember very well, I think it started with a N," Sarah responded.
"Nicci?" Cara asked and Sarah nodded.
"Lord Rahl, the only reason the D'Harans are following Darken Rahl is the fear of him. They are not bounded to him."
"I'm not the Lord Rahl, I'm the Seeker," Richard said.
"You were born as both the Seeker and the Lord Rahl. You can't deny who you are," Sarah said. Richard looked at her, shook his head, and said, "I won't take up the title of Lord Rahl."
"You are being stupid," Sarah said bluntly. If this was Darken Rahl she would be beaten for years for saying this to him, but this was the Seeker, she was hoping that he wasn't like his older brother. "Wizard's First Rule," Sarah explained. Richard, Kahlan, and Cara looked confused, but Zedd looked proud.
"You know the Wizard's Rules?" he asked.
"Some of them," Sarah replied.
"What is this Rule that it is so important?" Cara asked.
"Wizard's First Rule is this: People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true," Zedd said.
"You think that if you took the title Master of D'Hara, You'll become like Darken Rahl," Sarah said to her Lord Rahl, "This isn't true. Just because you were born a D'Haran doesn't mean that you'll inherit the cruelty behind it." Richard looked away from her. Sarah continued, "There is more. Another reason you need to take up the title of Lord Rahl is because you've unleashed a massive force from the Old World."
"What?" Richard exclaimed, "I did what?"
"When you destroyed the Towers of Perdition, you allowed complete access to the New World. A massive army, called the Imperials, have come into the New World and they want to wipe out everyone."
"Why?" Kahlan asked.
"Because they want revenge for what happened over 3,000 years ago, when they lost the first war against the New World. When the Towers of Perdition came into play and sealed them into the Old World," Sarah said somberly, "They have already killed countless people. Among them are the Hunters." Zedd froze in horror. The Hunters are back? He thought.