Drabble: Then and Now
Dec. 13th, 2010 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrhrionastarPairing: Richard/Kahlan
Length: 252
Rating: T
Spoilers: whole series
Summary: Kahlan reminisces about the quest to find the Stone of Tears to her daughters.
Then and Now
“And then your father put the Stone of Tears between the Pillars and sealed the Rift; the sun came pouring through the clouds and shone through the Stone, and the Keeper screamed, and the world was safe again,” Kahlan told her two little daughters, Dennee and Taralyn.
“Promise?” Dennee asked, from where she huddled under the covers, “Promise the Keeper isn’t coming for us?”
“The Keeper won’t get you, Nee-Nee,” Kahlan promised.
“He’s not under the bed, anyway,” said Tari, with the assurance of one who had looked. “Mother, tell the part about Aunt Cara pretending to be a princess again!”
Kahlan laughed. Cara’s brief sojourn as a princess in the Margrave of Rothenberg’s palace was a popular and far more light-hearted story.
As she embarked upon it, however, Kahlan dwelt still on her memories of the day they had sealed the Rift—much of it remained a thankful blur, but when she had come out of the Con Dar to find her dagger buried in Richard’s chest—that image, and her attendant guilt, would be with her all her life.
She could only marvel that Richard had forgiven her.
She would not recount to her daughters the moment Richard had taken her into his arms, the Creator’s light shining around them, and kissed her, and she had known that not only did he forgive her—he believed there was nothing to forgive.
Watching their daughters’ intent little faces, Kahlan thought perhaps that was the sweetest memory of all.
