Comfort was not what Abby wanted.Ībby looked up at the woman in whose arms she lay. She fell to hysterical wailing again, and the Mother Confessor once again drew her into comforting arms. Panis Rahl had conjured the shadow people.'
'When Zedd became First Wizard, things were grim. The Mother Confessor patted the stone step beside her. This time it's my baby he's killing, not the enemy.' She didn't fear this woman as she had before nothing she did could be worse than what already had been done. It had never occurred to Abby to think of a Confessor as a woman, but that was what she saw now. The Mother Confessor was older by maybe twelve or fourteen years, and pleasant-looking, with those violet eyes. Still weeping, Abby pushed herself up and slid on to the step. He was named First Wizard for all these things and more.' Even those other wizards in there, some of them his teachers, don't always understand how he is able to unravel some of the enigmas in the books or how he uses his gift to bring so much power to bear, but we do understand that he has heart. 'Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander may look young to you, as he did to many of us, but he is a special wizard, born of a wizard and a sorceress.
Perhaps, since your mother was gifted, you can understand how people sometimes unreasonably fear those with magic?' Some people on our side take that name to heart. We named him the wind of death for others to hear, so as to strike terror into the hearts of the enemy. 'Among ourselves, those of us who really know him call him the trickster, The trickster is the name he has truly earned. The Mother Confessor smiled a small smile. He was mischief on two legs, driven not by guile but by curiosity. 'I swatted his bottom when he misbehaved, and later twisted his ear to make him sit at a lesson. 'I sometimes minded Zeddicus when he was but a toddler and (was still coming into womanhood.' The Mother Confessor gazed off with a wistful smile. 'And sometimes,' Abby argued, 'those with magic really are monsters who care nothing for the life they destroy.' 'You have just the one child?' the sorceress asked.
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