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[Luna] The Senate named your uncle Regent,
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and he's named Tihomir his Viceroy.
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My father?
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Alive but sick.
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[Luna] Too sick.
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His secret is not a secret anymore.
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It gets worse.
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The Coriel'Tauvi have launched
an offensive across the frontier,
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claiming we're responsible
for the falling sky.
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Claiming we attacked Mene herself.
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I need to see my father.
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[theme music]
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[thrilling music]
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[Filomena] How many is that?
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Wait. Don't answer.
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I know. It's just, It's the same result.
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It's always the same,
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no matter when or where
in the orbital path the moon explodes.
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Everything dies.
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Yet, in the first world,
that's not what happened.
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The destruction of the moon
changed everything, but life went on.
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Removing the second moon
stabilized the Mad Moon's orbit.
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It allowed the prison to hold far longer
than it would in the first world.
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But-- But what if…
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[tense music]
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Here.
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[Filomena] Of course.
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It was a shield.
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When the end came,
its gravity protected the world below.
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Mene. Mother. What did that do to you?
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[indistinct shouting]
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[birds screeching]
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[explosion]
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[soldiers grunting]
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Run.
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[horn blows]
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[soldier] What the…
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[soldiers cheering]
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[Lina] The Coriel'Tauvi are turning tail.
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The river is the demarcation point
for the old boundaries.
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The bulk of their forces will have
crossed back over it by nightfall.
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Only to attack again once the moon rises.
It's always the same.
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The day is ours, the night is theirs.
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No.
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This is different. This is new.
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It's happening across the frontier.
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I'll fly more reconnaissance
over their forward positions.
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Perhaps I can work out their intentions
and encourage them along.
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[aide] For the Slayer.
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Wait.
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It's from General Drysi,
commander of the Principality Army.
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She wants to meet.
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An offer of parley.
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I need to think.
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Your uncle sent the regular army
to the front,
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along with most of the Praetorian Guard.
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Tihomir's private legion remained to…
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protect the Imperial City.
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"Protect" it.
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[murmuring]
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Dearest niece.
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Welcome home.
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After the Principality attack,
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we deployed the Slayer
and inflicted substantial losses.
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We're told that their general
offered a parley.
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So, the battle nears its end?
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Their withdrawal smells of a trap.
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My soldiers are already mobilizing
for the counter-offensive.
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[Mirana] Our soldiers.
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My soldiers.
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Let's not quibble over semantics.
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The situation on the border
is not what it seems.
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I believe the elves withdrew
because they learned what I know.
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What threatens us is not one another
but something greater.
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[Mirana] Lina will accept parley
and, if possible, negotiate an armistice.
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Princess, while you were off
on your little adventure,
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Imperium blood was shed. Lives were lost.
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You abandon your station in a time of war,
return with these unhelpful notions,
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and dare to think
you know what's best for all of us?
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You're clearly as mad as my poor brother.
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Council is concluded.
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[council member] She doesn't understand.
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-[door closes]
-[murmuring]
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[indistinct chatter]
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[innkeeper] Never had
so many Dragon Knights in here.
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What gods awful monstrosity
could need so many brave souls?
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We're going south.
We found an Eldwurm in Barrowhaven.
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-"An old worm?" Is that dangerous?
-[coughs]
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Eldwurm. It's the most dangerous.
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Biggest kind of dragon.
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We're gonna kill it before it wipes out
the town and everything around it.
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-But we're around it.
-And you'll continue to be safe.
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-I could use another round.
-I'll make it two.
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-[slurps, sighs]
-[groans]
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Wha-- Another headache?
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I'm telling you,
I don't care how bad those nightmares are.
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You need to sleep.
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I'm fine.
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You look about six-feet-under fine.
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What happened to Kaden,
what you saw, it is horrible.
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Give it time.
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These are on the hous--
[grunts]
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[rumbling]
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Was that the old worm?
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[indistinct screaming]
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[gasps]
There! It's coming from up there!
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[explosions]
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[grunting]
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[groans]
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[villager] Help!
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[villager groans]
Help me.
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-Bram!
-Huh?
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[Davion] Help me with this!
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[Davion grunts]
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Go. Go as fast as you can!
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[man groaning]
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Here. Grab my hand.
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[snarls]
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[growls]
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[grunting]
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[growling]
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[breathing heavily]
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[both panting]
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What the fuck was he?
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Davion.
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[Davion] I know.
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[growling lightly]
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[Bram] The Knights. The squires, they're--
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[Davion] I know.
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[ominous music]
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-[groaning]
-[grunts]
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[grunting continues]
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-[explosions]
-[screaming]
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[pensive music]
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[Davion] Bram! Bram, sound off!
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[coughing]
Here.
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[groans]
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[groaning continues]
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[Mirana] Father. I'm home.
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Where is my father?
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[guard] The Spire, Highness.
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Regent Shabarra ordered it
for the Emperor's safety.
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Sherzi, you're home.
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I was just thinking about the summer
we spent picking figs with Mirana.
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So cold today.
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Sing for me?
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It's me, Father.
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It's Mirana.
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Mirana?
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Yes. Send for your mother.
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Mother is gone.
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Mother has been gone for quite some time.
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[Emperor Zal] Oh.
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Yes.
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Dead five years now.
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Five years, almost to the day.
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-Five years tomorrow.
-[Emperor Zal] Yes. Yes, yes.
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Tomorrow, the day.
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I need your wisdom, Father.
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I need your help.
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[Mirana] I am of two worlds, two lives.
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And I keep mistaking one for the other.
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Which is fine, except a man is dead.
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And another man…
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the man I loved,
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is not the man I loved at all.
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[Mirana chuckles softly]
And now he hates me.
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[Mirana sighs]
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What is memory? What is imagined?
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The world is full of ghosts,
and I'm alone, Father.
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[Emperor Zal] Would you believe me,
daughter, if I told you I understand?
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I see your mother everywhere.
I can't stop seeing your mother.
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And when she is gone,
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she takes the world with her.
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[Mirana] I remember the day Mother died.
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[sentimental music]
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[Mirana] I remember the day you both died.
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I held your hand.
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I was swept from the palace.
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I cried with you. I cried out your name.
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[sniffs]
Oh, I was barely a woman.
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[sobs]
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I was just a little girl…
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who couldn't help her or you.
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Not in that world.
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And not in this one.
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Ooh.
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Oh, now I see.
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Oh, my poor girl.
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You've learned the most terrifying secret
in the universe.
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Our parents,
no matter how much they love us,
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cannot protect us from everything.
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Nor we, them.
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Love is not about making a perfect world,
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free from harm and free from pain.
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Love is living together
in the world as it is, come what may.
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Five years… tomorrow.
[chuckles]
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[Emperor Zal] Five years… to the day.
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[sentimental music]
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I was just thinking about Mother.
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I was thinking
about why she chose to live a mortal life.
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Why she chose death.
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I asked her once before the end,
begged her to explain.
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She said,
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"Fi, accepting death is the only act
of true power in the universe."
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I stormed out.
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My heart was broken.
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I didn't understand. Not then.
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I think I understand now.
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In the end, no god, no monster,
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no ancient primordial entity
is more dangerous than despair.
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There are things you must know.
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I saw the book, Papa. I read it.
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I know what you've done and why.
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I should be horrified, and I am.
I should be angry, and I am.
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Yet, I know how I felt when Mother died,
and when I thought you might.
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I'd have done anything,
anything at all to make it different.
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But all of this, for me?
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A multiverse
and innumerable souls gone, for me.
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Except that is not what happened.
That is not all that happened.
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This is neither the first iteration
of a remade universe nor the second.
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It is not the tenth, the one hundredth,
or one-thousandth.
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This universe is experiment 12,403.
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Twelve thousand…
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[Invoker] Creation is a delicate thing.
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It took hundreds of iterations
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simply to learn
how to make a stable universe.
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Most died in infancy,
the stars boiling away into the void.
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But you, daughter.
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Making this world,
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this specific world,
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causality was the second lesson.
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And all of that for nothing.
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The Ancients will escape,
the Mad Moon will explode.
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Only now, it means the end
of all life on this planet.
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As I said,
our Tower will survive the holocaust.
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As will you. As will we.
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You say that
like the thought makes it better,
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like it's not a nightmare
I can never wake up from.
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Another dead world, all for me.
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But I have to watch this one die.
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[somber music]
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[Slyrak] Father of Fire!
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Welcome.
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My dream. I'm back in my dream.
Which means…
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[Slyrak] You are not dead.
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Nor do you dream.
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In time, you will remember,
just as the ember soul remembers you.
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The ember soul.
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[Slyrak] Reborn in you.
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We are he who was.
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You are he who is.
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A vessel dies, a vessel is chosen.
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Even now, your true nature emerges
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to repair the form
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you call "self."
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The ember soul.
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Lifetimes ago, we hid the ember soul
inside a form like yours
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to deceive the demon Terrorblade.
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The form carried us to the Eye.
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[Davion] The princess.
262
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That's the princess.
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Part of us. A part of you.
264
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You feel the truth of it.
265
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I… I can feel it.
266
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And the princess…
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Everything she said…
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I need to see her. Talk to her.
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A futile gesture.
270
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The moon will crumble
and destroy this world.
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New death and rebirth are upon us all.
272
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Wait. What are you talking about?
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[growling]
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Get the hells off him!
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[snarling]
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[yells]
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[growling]
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[heroic music]
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Stay back.
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Stay back!
281
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-What? Where is he?
-[Davion/Slyrak] Bram.
282
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-What have you done with Davion?
-[Davion/Slyrak] Bram.
283
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It's me.
284
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Help me kill these fucking things
before they kill anyone else.
285
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[grunts]
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[shouts]
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Our brothers.
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00:16:18,043 --> 00:16:19,459
They just…
289
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They tore each other apart.
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And you.
291
00:16:22,584 --> 00:16:26,751
Whatever changed all those people,
did it change you too?
292
00:16:26,834 --> 00:16:27,834
[Davion/Slyrak] No.
293
00:16:30,668 --> 00:16:33,001
It was something you'll like even less.
294
00:16:33,751 --> 00:16:37,876
[Mirana] I never stopped to think,
to step outside myself,
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to see this… this world as it truly is.
296
00:16:41,918 --> 00:16:45,001
I was so hells-bent on reshaping it
to suit me and…
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Gods. Terrorblade. The Invoker.
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How am I so different?
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I owe you more.
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I owe you better.
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[Mirana] And you will have it, I swear.
302
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[suspenseful music]
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Forgive me, Highness.
I have orders from Regent Shabarra.
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Your father needs you most right now.
You're to stay by his side.
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My uncle doesn't have the authority
to give you that order.
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Shabarra says you're mad.
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He says exposure to that red rock
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and the Oracle whispering in your ear
have changed you.
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00:17:25,584 --> 00:17:27,084
And the Legati agree.
310
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Your uncle thinks the Senate will, too.
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And you? Do you agree?
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[sighs]
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Don't fight this.
314
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He will use it against you.
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He'll make things worse for you.
316
00:17:39,209 --> 00:17:43,293
You are captain of the Praetorian Guard.
The Guard serves our family.
317
00:17:43,376 --> 00:17:46,959
If you follow the Regent's order,
it can only be because you agree.
318
00:17:47,043 --> 00:17:52,418
You entered the Oracle's temple one person
and came out another, speaking nonsense.
319
00:17:52,501 --> 00:17:54,459
You-- You disappeared without explanation.
320
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I-- I had to hunt across hundreds of spans
of hostile territory to bring you home.
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[sighs]
322
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What do you want from me?
You have my loyalty.
323
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And my worry.
324
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[Mirana] I know my behavior seems erratic.
325
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I won't even try to explain,
326
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other than to say the Oracle presented me
with a choice.
327
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And more and more,
I realize I choose badly.
328
00:18:22,418 --> 00:18:25,793
[Mirana] It doesn't need
to be a perfect world.
329
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But I am no one's prisoner.
330
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Princess, if I support you, you must stay.
331
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And you have to lead.
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Summon what remains of the Guard.
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[Luna] Make way, you sorry bastards!
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[gasps]
335
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Princess?
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[guards grunt]
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00:18:52,584 --> 00:18:53,543
[guards grunt]
338
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[guards grunt]
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[gasps]
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[tense music]
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[gasps]
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Give me a reason.
It doesn't even have to be good.
343
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[Mirana] On your knees.
Beg for my forgiveness.
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Beg my father's forgiveness
and pray he hears you.
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Pray it's enough.
346
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[Mirana] You have two choices.
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The first is to take the knee.
348
00:19:43,168 --> 00:19:45,584
So much for not coming down
off the throne.
349
00:19:45,668 --> 00:19:47,418
What would your mother say?
350
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She'd say I finally understand
what she meant.
351
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If I am to become a god,
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I must act like a god.
353
00:19:57,584 --> 00:20:00,501
Guess what sort of a god I am today?
354
00:20:08,043 --> 00:20:10,334
All of you lot, stand down!
355
00:20:10,418 --> 00:20:12,251
They won't stand down.
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They'll fight.
357
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These soldiers belong to me.
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Perhaps they do, but she doesn't.
359
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Down, boys.
360
00:20:24,293 --> 00:20:25,418
[Lina] Welcome back.
361
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You've been busy.
362
00:20:28,793 --> 00:20:31,001
Busier than I expected.
363
00:20:32,459 --> 00:20:33,959
You left the front.
364
00:20:34,043 --> 00:20:35,793
You accepted the offer of parley
on your own.
365
00:20:36,584 --> 00:20:40,168
Someone told me I'm capable
of more than just destruction.
366
00:20:42,334 --> 00:20:43,876
[Lina] Did I wrong you in another dream?
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00:20:44,376 --> 00:20:45,543
Quite the opposite.
368
00:20:45,626 --> 00:20:46,959
[groans]
369
00:20:47,043 --> 00:20:47,918
[Luna] Highness?
370
00:20:48,001 --> 00:20:49,084
[Mirana grunts]
371
00:20:49,584 --> 00:20:51,543
[Mirana] Five years to the day.
372
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[somber music]
373
00:20:57,459 --> 00:20:58,459
[Emperor Zal] Sherzi?
374
00:21:00,001 --> 00:21:01,668
I hear you.
375
00:21:04,293 --> 00:21:06,376
I hear you singing.
376
00:21:08,834 --> 00:21:10,543
-[Emperor Zal grunts]
-[clanks]
377
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[groans weakly]
378
00:21:14,626 --> 00:21:15,668
Father!
379
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Father.
380
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[groaning]
381
00:21:22,918 --> 00:21:24,084
[Mirana] Father, I'm with you.
382
00:21:24,168 --> 00:21:25,293
[Emperor Zal] It…
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00:21:26,543 --> 00:21:27,626
It's all right.
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Mirana.
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Your mother is here.
386
00:21:35,834 --> 00:21:38,376
Can't you hear her?
387
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She sings for both of us.
[exhales heavily]
388
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[melancholy music]
389
00:21:57,709 --> 00:22:00,876
Goddess, I thought it fitting
to come to you here.
390
00:22:00,959 --> 00:22:03,876
Somehow, this feels closer to you
than the Woods.
391
00:22:04,459 --> 00:22:07,959
I have spent a thousand years
defying death,
392
00:22:08,751 --> 00:22:13,209
pretending to be the master
of cosmic forces that shape our world.
393
00:22:13,293 --> 00:22:14,793
It feels empty now.
394
00:22:15,918 --> 00:22:19,376
More like,
a little girl's wishes than magic.
395
00:22:19,459 --> 00:22:20,668
I'm a fool.
396
00:22:20,751 --> 00:22:21,834
[Mene] You feel powerless.
397
00:22:22,959 --> 00:22:24,126
Responsible.
398
00:22:24,209 --> 00:22:26,584
My father has done monstrous things.
399
00:22:27,251 --> 00:22:28,543
He did them out of love,
400
00:22:28,626 --> 00:22:32,584
but that makes them no less monstrous
or less in my name.
401
00:22:32,668 --> 00:22:34,334
And you would undo these things.
402
00:22:34,418 --> 00:22:35,834
I was like you.
403
00:22:35,918 --> 00:22:40,209
I thought I could fix the world
and make it look how I wanted.
404
00:22:40,293 --> 00:22:41,626
It doesn't work that way.
405
00:22:41,709 --> 00:22:44,876
I can't tell you what to do
or how to feel.
406
00:22:44,959 --> 00:22:46,168
But I can listen.
407
00:22:46,251 --> 00:22:48,584
I can ask the one question that matters.
408
00:22:48,668 --> 00:22:53,209
[Mene] What can you live with?
What weight can your conscience bear?
409
00:22:59,209 --> 00:23:02,834
[Bram] Wow, so… So you…
You're… You're an Eldwyrm?
410
00:23:02,918 --> 00:23:06,584
I'm something. It's complicated.
411
00:23:07,543 --> 00:23:09,626
The princess. We have to find her.
412
00:23:09,709 --> 00:23:11,668
I have to find her. I need to see her.
413
00:23:11,751 --> 00:23:14,168
[Bram] Whoa, whoa, wait.
The-- The crazy one from the bar?
414
00:23:14,251 --> 00:23:16,418
She'll know what to do. She always does.
415
00:23:16,501 --> 00:23:19,376
-Do about what? Davion.
-[Davion] All of it.
416
00:23:20,376 --> 00:23:23,959
You wanna go to the Helio Imperium.
On foot. From Haupstadt.
417
00:23:24,043 --> 00:23:27,376
Hey, you're a dragon. Dragons can fly.
418
00:23:27,459 --> 00:23:30,209
What if you became a dragon
for just a tiny little bit, and…
419
00:23:30,293 --> 00:23:33,668
Yeah. He… hasn't eaten in 20 years.
420
00:23:34,876 --> 00:23:36,876
Oh, yeah, right. Bad idea.
421
00:23:36,959 --> 00:23:38,209
[Davion] Come, little mouse.
422
00:23:38,709 --> 00:23:40,334
Hey, watch who you're calling a mouse.
423
00:23:41,543 --> 00:23:43,668
[Bram] Dragon or no dragon,
I will lay you out.
424
00:23:43,751 --> 00:23:45,168
[Davion/Slyrak growl lightly]
425
00:23:45,251 --> 00:23:47,418
[pensive music]
426
00:23:52,251 --> 00:23:54,334
[intense music]
427
00:24:08,126 --> 00:24:10,126
[closing theme music]