Richard leaves the Palace of the profits to face the agent that wishes to free the Keeper and finds Rachel and retrieves the Stone of Tears from her. The Sisters of the Dark flee upon being discovered. The Sisters of the Dark try to kill Richard. After Richard arrives at the Palace of the Profits, where the Sisters of the Light live, Richard learns that there are Sisters of the Dark that work in secret towards freeing the Keeper from the underworld. The collar can't be removed until Richard learns to use his power. Richard is distraught that Kahlan would want him to go but leaves her, putting on a collar provided by the Sisters of the Light. He refuses to go with them, but Kahlan fears he will die and tells him that if he loves her he will go. The head aches are Richard's magic that has recently begun to surface in Richard. They tell Richard that he must come with them or the head aches will kill him. Richard has begun to have head aches and soon is visited by three women who call themselves the Sisters of the Light. Kahlan is the Mother Confessor, a sorceress who can take over a person's mind with a single touch. Richard is in a faraway village with his intended wife Kahlan. Zedd sends Rachel and her father, Chase, on a mission to find Richard, who Zedd knows is the only one that can mend the veil between the living and the dead.

Zedd realizes that if the Stone of Tears is in the world of the living then the veil that separates the world of the living and the world of the dead has been torn. Zedd puts the stone around the neck of a little girl named Rachel and puts a spell on it to ensure that when Richard sees it, he will be drawn to the stone. The Stone of Tears is one of the items that prevents the Keeper from escaping from the underworld. Zedd, a powerful wizard, has found the Stone of Tears. Richard alone has the power to fix the veil that has been torn and stop the Keeper from destroying all life on earth. Richard Rahl is a wizard that the prophecies have told about for thousands of years.

Stone of Tears, by Terry Goodkind, follows a group of characters as each do their part to stop the Keeper, the ruler of the underworld, from escaping into the world of the living.

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