The Preserve, Late Thursday Evening

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Cara had been feeling the urge to head down to the woods most of the week, which in and of itself wasn't highly unusual as they still felt like the most familiar place on the island. What was unusual was the unsettling and often confusing dreams (no seriously, she had no idea what a half-fixed, half-variable home-loan even was, let alone why she'd want one) that had accompanied this feeling.

But since hunting things usually made her feel better, she eventually gave into the urge, and was stalking through the preserve, bow in hand.

[For two.]

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He was also very chatty, Cara had obviously given him too long a leash.

"It's not my fault she's confused about that." The borderline traitorous thought that Lord Rahl should have listened when she suggested moving Cara for proper training instead of using magical shortcuts that could be undone crossed Dahlia's mind. "That the Seeker and Mother Confessor blinded her to her true family."

Leo probably didn't want to bring his temporary Seekerhood up.

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Well, this was one for the storybooks right here. "Blinded her? Cara, you serve the Seeker willingly. Even beyond serving Lord Rahl, you were by my side without hesitation. What is this woman going on about?"

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Right now, Cara was a bit busy trying to convince herself she could actually kill Dahlia if she moved any closer. This was stupid, she hadn't had this problem with Triana, and trying to stop her death had been one of the things that'd led to choosing Richard's side in the first place.

Add in the fact she hadn't even been able to talk to Leo about her feelings regarding him, let alone Dahlia, and he got a not very satisfying "It's complicated." in response.

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If Dahlia had been eyeing Leo before as if wondering what he might look like with a few less clothes, now it looked like she was wondering what he'd look like with few less pints of blood as well.

"I don't understand what's so complicated about wanting Cara back with the only ones who can really love and understand her." And if Cara could just see that, then Dahlia wouldn't have to hurt her. Why did she make her do that?

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"The only ones?" Leo repeated, looking confusedly toward Cara. "Been even longer since you've seen this one, I take it."

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Never had Cara wished so intently that Kahlan (or even Richard) was here. Even if she didn't want to talk about her feelings, she could trust Kahlan to be ready with a weapon.

"Not exactly."

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"Okay...then should you consider putting down your weapons, or is there more to this?" Leo's confusion was spreading.

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Because trusting Dahlia further than she could throw her hadn't caused any problems at all.

"Nothing I want to talk about." Leo was only even getting that much because he was dead.

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"Your pet really does talk too much."

Dahlia wasn't upset that Cara was being unreasonable, really she wasn't. It was just the lingering influence of the Seeker, that and she remembered what Cara was like the first time she'd been this age.

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Pet was quite the assumption on the Mord'Sith's part. Well...maybe not. "Excuse me, but I'm no one's pet."

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Please, even in alternate universes where she wore pink dresses Leo let himself be bossed around by Cara. "He's a stubborn one too, that must get annoying."

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"Go ahead, continue talking as though I'm not even in the woods," he replied. Maybe he should go pick some flowers to go with all the leather.

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Trust me, Leo, you didn't want her paying too close attention to you.

"This is what I mean about the Seeker making you soft and weak. You never would have let him speak with that kind of disrespect before."

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Mord'Sith did not run away from their problems. Especially not their emotional problems since they didn't even acknowledge those existed.

They did however make tactical retreats, and given that Leo and Dahlia probably couldn't kill each other, Cara felt completely justified in tactically retreating out of there as quickly as possible.

Hopefully they'd be too busy sniping at each other to even notice she was gone.