Afterwards, Richard was left in a dungeon with another prisoner, Ralph, whose daughter was to be trained to be a Mord-Sith. From Raph, Richard learned what the Mord-Sith are, and how they are trained. Richard attempted to escape, but was thwarted by Raph, who had already been broken by Denna. Denna had wanted Richard to see how broken Raph was in order to crush Richard's hope. Denna offered her agiel to Richard, that he may keep trying to escape. Touching the agiel taught Richard that it causes pain to the one wielding it as well as it's victim.
Kahlan was horrified to discover that Lara had confessed the entire village she lived in. All of the people were her mindless slaves. Lara insisted she had good reason to do as she had, but Kahlan was too disgusted by her actions to agree to let her help Richard. Zedd, fleeing from the Mord-Sith, found the two of them and related what had happened. The morally corrupt Lara offered to use her enthralled people as a battle force to free Richard, since they no longer feel fear and would not hesitate to fight to the death. Kahland doggedly refused to use people in such a manner until Zedd reluctantly pointed out how out-numbered the trio are, and that his own magic was worthless against the Mord-Sith.
Richard became so delirious with pain that he retreated into a daydream of being with Kahlan. Denna pulled him out of the dream and provoked Richard into telling of Kahlan. Recognizing the name Kahlan Amnell as being a Confessor, Denna told Richard of the real reason why Kahlan couldn’t love him: of how her power would destroy his mind if they were together. Denna wanted Richard to love her in place of Kahlan.
As the villagers, Zedd, Lara, and Kahlan march on the Mord-Sith's temple to take back Richard, Kahlan demanded a chance to directly confront Denna to free Richard. Zedd reluctantly agreed.
When Denna brings Richard in to continue his torture, Richard requested that Constance do it instead. Enraged, Denna beat him savagely until Richard explained that he only asked for Constance because he didn't want Denna to be hurt wielding her agiel on Richard's behalf. Kahlan interrupted at that point and confronted Denna, trying to scare her into releasing Richard
But Denna knew that if the people were only fighting because Lara had confessed them, then the D'Harans need only kill Lara for the people to be released from the enthrallment and flee from the battle. With her bluff called, Kahlan tried to fight her way past Lara and the accompanying soldiers, but was stopped by Richard who grabbed Denna’s agiel and used it to stop Kahlan.
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