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  　"It was speaking about those like you: 'The most dangerous creature walking the world of life is the ungifted child of a Lord Rahl, because they are completely immune to magic. Magic can't harm them, can't affect them, and even prophecy is blind to them.' But I guess you turned out to prove the book wrong."

  　She thought it over. Some of it still didn't make sense to her. "I don't understand why the Keeper was using me. Why was his voice in my head?"

  　"Well, I only had time to translate a 【创建和谐家园】all bit of the book, and other parts are damaged. But, from some of what I did read, I guess that the ungifted child, since he has no magic, is what the book calls a 'hole in the world,' " Richard explained, "so they're also a hole in the veil-making you potentially a conduit between the world of life and the world of the dead. In order for the Keeper to consume the world of life, he needed such a gateway. The need for vengeance was the final key. Your surrender to his wishes-when you went out in the woods with the Sisters of the Dark-had to be consummated by you being slain, by you completing the bargain with death by dying."

  　"So, if anyone had killed me-Sister Perdita, for example-after I went out in the woods with those Sisters of the Dark, wouldn't that have opened such a gateway?"

  　"No. The Keeper needed a protector of the world of life. It took the balance to your lack of the gift. It took a gifted Rahl-the Lord Rahl, to accomplish such a thing," Richard said. "If I had killed you to save myself, or Kahlan, then the Keeper would have been loosed into this world through the breach created. I had to force you to choose life, not death, if you were to live, and if the Keeper was to be kept in the underworld."

  　"I might have... destroyed life," Jennsen said, shaken at truly understanding how close she'd come to unleashing catacly【创建和谐家园】ic destruction.

  　"I'd not have let you," Tom said, good-naturedly.

  　Jennsen put her hand on his arm, realizing that she had never had feelings before like she had for him. The man positively made her heart sing. His 【创建和谐家园】ile made her life worth living. Betty stuck her nose in, wanting attention, and to see her sleeping babies.

  　"There is no greater treason to life than delivering the innocent to the Keeper of the Dead," Cara said.

  　"But she didn't," Richard said. "She used reason to discover the truth, and truth to embrace life."

  　"You sure know a lot about magic," Jennsen said to Richard.

  　Kahlan and Cara laughed so hard that Jennsen thought they might fall off their horses.

  　"I don't see what's so funny," Richard grumbled.

  　The two of them laughed all the harder.

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