Tag: Balancing The Cha
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ZONN: I have always loved you. From the first time I saw you. All my life. You are … everything I have ever loved, everything I ever wanted.
IPOLA:And everything that sticks in your throat … the “sand in your breechcloth,” I think you called me once.
ZONN: Well, yeah, that, too. But gods, you are … the impossible standard that no one else could ever match. Even now, after all these years … I … have never worn a chain. Because of you.
IPOLA: Oh, Zonn. Of course I know it has nothing to do with our love. Of course you need some time with your people to consider. I … there I go again, acting and talking from fear.. Sorry. So sorry. Cha na amanh.
ZONN: Cha nethron. I do know how it is. My darling one. For the first time I have something besides myself to lose. And it’s the worst time in history. I’m afraid, too. I am afraid.
IPOLA: But I did want to hear you say that you love me.
ZONN: That’s fair.
IPOLA: After twenty-five years? Not really, no.
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IPOLA: He is a powerful enchanter - yes, we need him, too. And we need you.
ZONN: What about my tribe, Ipola?
IPOLA: Any warriors - every one of your warriors willing to fight. I need them.
ZONN: I … How do we get them there? It’s fifteen hundred miles. They can’t all ride aburori.
IPOLA: Almost no one can. This was a one-time favor from a good friend.
ZONN: So how?
IPOLA: I can find a way. We can find a way. I just need to know if you will come. If I call, will you come?
ZONN: For you, Ipola … if it was just me … I can’t speak for everyone.
IPOLA: Of course. So please hold a council, get an answer. I have to leave in three days.
ZONN: We’ll have the gathering tomorrow.
IPOLA: Ah. All right, thank you.
ZONN: At that time I’ll ask them if they want to pledge fealty - or not.
IPOLA: Oh.
ZONN: We have something here of our own, Ipola. The young folk have never known Erogenia - or you. And it’s a long way away. Also - a lot of my warriors have never known real war. I do my best to train them, but … well, that thing you were talking about earlier? About finding a new way? We might have stumbled on it, accidentally. We live in peace with the Nassim. And we … we tend not to get into stupid fights like we did when I was young at home. We solve our problems most of the time without bashing each other. Our enemies are monsters and animals and the heat and sandstorms. It’s a harsh life, but ...
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ZONN: Dragons …
IPOLA: Yes.
ZONN: Not even in my day …
IPOLA: In no one’s day, Zonn. Not for three thousand years or more. But this is still our day. Our day didn’t end when we stopped being young. Yours, mine - all of us. And it’s the reason I did one of the stupidest things I have done in a long time by leaving Erogenia and coming here.
ZONN: On the back of a giant bird. (grins) Well … I don’t know about stupid. It was pretty Erogenian.
IPOLA: Sometimes, my old love, it’s much the same thing.
ZONN: You looked damn good doing it.
IPOLA: Zonn … we need you. This … more than anything is why I had to come find you. We need your strength, which I can see you still have. We need the inspiration you provide, we need a legend on the battlefield.
ZONN: You have Zona …
IPOLA: And thank the Goddess for her and for her sister, but at this point we need everything we can get.
ZONN: You also have Mentl.
IPOLA: Yes, of course, Mentl.
ZONN: He’s a good lad. And damn, you should have seen what he did. A goddam thunderbolt from the sky ...
ZONN: Don’t be so hard on yourself. I was the one who hared off trying to be a hero. And we wound up 1500 miles from where we should have been behind the Urtt territories, and we really by rights should all be dead. Even if you hadn’t stopped looking, you might have wasted time and resources you couldn’t afford without ever finding us.
ZONN: And look at you: Ipola, you’ve made something truly great. You made sacrifices for the greater good again and again and …you triumphed as few people in history ever could. And, obviously, you didn’t really need me there to do it.
IPOLA: Says you.
ZONN: Besides - it’s all in the past, we can’t change it now. Let’s take what we have.
IPOLA: Do we have anything - really? You and I, after all this time?
ZONN: We have tonight. And that’s not nothing. For the future? Well ...
IPOLA: For that - Hrraarch, my Aburor friend will return in five days time at noon. She will land if she feels it’s safe, but only if she sees me. If she doesn’t, she will return to her people alone. That’s our agreement.
ZONN: So soon.
IPOLA: The Sun and the Moon can’t share the sky for long, I’m afraid.
ZONN: But they do, though, don’t they?
IPOLA: Yes. Yes, they do, however … briefly.
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DANCERS: AMANH HAIII
ZONA: Come on - it’s second dance!
MENTL: Right on.
MENTL: Huh.
ZONA: What?
MENTL: Where’d your folks go?
ZONA: Maybe they went to dance somewhere more private?
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ZONN’S BEDCHAMBER - ZONN AND IPOLA MAKING LOVE
