- Cara Mason: I suggested we celebrate your birthday the Mord-Sith way.
- Richard Cypher: I didn't know Mord-Siths celebrate birthdays.
- Cara Mason: We don't.
- [first lines]
- Cara Mason: It's a good thing Mord-Siths are used to torture, because that's exactly what eating this stew will be.
- Richard Cypher: [takes sniff] Well, maybe Zedd and Kahlan will find some mushrooms.
- Cara Mason: It's gonna take more than mushrooms to save this.
- Cara Mason: [down in the tomb, re the note:] What does it say?
- Kahlan Amnell: "You have one day until the sands run out. And when they do, so does your air."
- Cara Mason: You were right. This party is a lot of fun.
- Cara Mason: [trapped in tomb] This is pointless. We've been at it for hours.
- Kahlan Amnell: We can't just sit here and do nothing.
- Cara Mason: We'll have run out of air long before we dig our way out of here.
- Kahlan Amnell: It's not helping that these torches are burning air faster than we are.
- Cara Mason: Then we'll have to find a way to snuff them out.
- Kahlan Amnell: [on Cara's shoulders, grasping for the torch] I can almost reach it. Stand on your toes.
- Cara Mason: [strained] I am.
- [Kahlan falls hard, gasps with pain]
- Cara Mason: The torches are using less air than we are trying to knock them out.
- Cara Mason: The air's getting thinner.
- Kahlan Amnell: There's one way to double how long it lasts.
- [looks intently at Cara]
- Kahlan Amnell: Kill me.
- Cara Mason: [their eyes meet] Has the lack of air driven you mad?
- Kahlan Amnell: It could give Richard the time he needs to find us. And when he does, you could give me the breath of life.
- Cara Mason: As tempting as the offer to kill you may be,
- [shakes her head]
- Cara Mason: Richard will never forgive me if I let you die.
- Kahlan Amnell: But I'd only be dead for a short time. And then you could bring me back.
- Cara Mason: It's too big a risk. We don't know how long it's gonna take Richard to find us. But there is another way. I'll die instead.
- Kahlan Amnell: I can't bring you back.
- Cara Mason: But you can live.
- Kahlan Amnell: Cara, no! If you die, your death would be final.
- Cara Mason: Better one of us than both of us.
- Cara Mason: You were right.
- Kahlan Amnell: About what?
- Cara Mason: You once told me that it's a hard world, and that we don't get many chances to tell people how much they mean to us. There's no one a Mord-Sith should hate more... than a Confessor. I was trained to hate you. But I don't. And I don't wanna die without you knowing... that I consider you to be... my friend.
- Kahlan Amnell: [smiles] I think of you as a friend too.
- [hugs her, not something Cara can easily return, but she gives a little try]
- Kahlan Amnell: We're going to get out of here. We both know Richard. He's coming for us. He just needs a little more time.
- Cara Mason: I know. And I'm gonna make sure he gets it.
- [gets up, and runs to the sword]
- Kahlan Amnell: Cara, no!