- Richard Cypher: Mistress Denna, would you allow Constance to train me tomorrow?
- Denna: [shouting angrily while smacking Richard] Why are you asking for Constance? You prefer her touch to mine? Obviously, I've been too easy on you! Why do you ask for her? Answer me!
- Richard Cypher: Because it hurts you to use the Agiel. I don't want you to suffer any more because of me.
- Denna: I've never known anyone like you, Seeker.
- Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander: [speaking of Richard Cypher] Mord'Sith will torture him within an inch of his life, and when they're done, he'll do whatever they command.
- Kahlan Amnell: Why are these people kneeling before you?
- [Lara stays silent]
- Kahlan Amnell: You must tell the truth, Lara. Have you used your power to confess them?
- Lara: Yes. I have confessed them all.
- Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander: Forget what I believe. You can't abandon Richard!
- Kahlan Amnell: I'm not abandoning him... I'm protecting him!
- Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander: From what, exactly?
- Kahlan Amnell: You were right. I do have feelings for him. Last night, I...
- [lowers gaze]
- Kahlan Amnell: I almost lost control of those feelings. If I hadn't stopped myself, Richard would have been lost forever, and the Prophecy would have been fulfilled.
- Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander: But you did stop yourself.
- Kahlan Amnell: Maybe next time I won't be able to.
- Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander: Oh, Kahlan, you're stronger than that, you'd never let that happen.
- Kahlan Amnell: Not on purpose, no.
- [shakes her head, inhaling sharply]
- Kahlan Amnell: But how am I to know how the Prophecy will come to pass? I could betray him because of a spell, or a... a trick. All I know is... the Prophecy cannot be avoided.
- Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander: All I know is that the Seeker needs his Confessor!
- Denna: You surprise me, Seeker. You could have run, might even have made it to the main gate. But you gave up your one chance at freedom. All for a child you'd never met. Why?
- Richard Cypher: To keep her from becoming like you!