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ZONN: Is this real?

IPOLA: Hello, Yanora. Yes, Zonn, it’s real. We found a cache of these in the Tower of The Moon after the war. I give them to important people I really need to keep in touch with.
YANORA: Like me. Hello, Zonn. For a man who’s been dead for twenty-five years, you look very good.
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ZONN: Yanora. You look … lovely, as ever.
YANORA: Flattery, from Zonn The Wanderer? You’ve gone soft while you’ve been away.
ZONN: I’m not one of your Kivalian dandies but I call it as I see it.
YANORA: Part of what I always found so charming about you.
YANORA: So - another piece on our side of the Tuntach board, Ipola?
IPOLA: Yes. We still have to work out how to bring them to the game, but that is just a problem, and I already have ideas about solutions.
VOICE: Your Grace - someone coming.
YANORA: Must go now. Lovely chatting. Tat-ta!
ZONN: That’s … handy.
IPOLA: I still prefer to use the birds for most things, but this is instant.
ZONN: I can definitely see the advantages. So I will be able to see you, then.
IPOLA: Yes, when it’s important.
ZONN: What if I just miss you, and want to see your beautiful face?
IPOLA: Well, that almost sounded like something from a Kivalian courtier.

ZONN: And you are right about one thing: With what’s at stake, we have no right to hold ourselves apart from the fight. I know the Urtts as well as you do. It wouldn’t end in Erogenia.
IPOLA: No - no, it wouldn’t. Have you spoken to Uissan?
ZONN: Yes. I understand that they look at the Urtts as … victims like themselves, in a way. But even he acknowledges that three thousand years later they’re as responsible for themselves as we are. But … well, they’re talking among themselves about it. We’ll see if they come up with something. Anyway. The answer you were looking for from me is - yes. If you call, I will come. Alone if necessary, but with all our strength if possible.
IPOLA: I have something for you, then. These are few and precious. We still have not figured out how to duplicate the magick in them, but I brought this one for you.
ZONN: What … what does it … do?
IPOLA: I’ll teach Chera and you together, to make sure that there’s always someone who knows how to use it. Watch:
YANORA: Yes, Ipola? Ohhhh … Well, well, well!

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ZONN: Ipola …
IPOLA: Wha … it’s morning already.
ZONN: Yes.
IPOLA: You look awful.
ZONN: Not surprised. It was a long meeting. A lot was said.
IPOLA: And?
ZONN: We are your subjects.
IPOLA: Ohh. Thank you, Zonn.
ZONN: It will be for a year at a time - just like all the other tribes.
IPOLA: Of course. This … this means a great deal to me.
ZONN: I know. It means a lot to us, too.
IPOLA: I’m so sorry for the way I tried to bully you. Cha na amanh.
ZONN: It’s balanced. Cha nethron.

TULA: Mother.
IPOLA: Tula.
IPOLA: So - what …?
TULA: I think that they’re voting now.
IPOLA: Did they ask you to leave, as well?
TULA: No. But Zona and I decided it would be best not to even appear to try to influence things.
IPOLA: Mentl?
TULA: He went off with Zona. I think they’re just taking a walk.
TULA: Or something.
IPOLA: Ah.

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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: For anything else, for anyone else it wouldn’t be, Zonn, but this is you, this is me, this is for the world. Not an exaggeration! The world! It is that simple, dammit - I need to know!
ZONN: And you can’t give me one day?
IPOLA: How many days does Erogenia have? I left in the middle of a crisis …
ZONN: All I’m saying is don’t pressure me like this. Or I swear it’ll be like Mimos all over again!
IPOLA: Oh - so!
ZONN: Yes!
IPOLA: Now you bring that up? Now?! Have you been storing that hurt up for twenty-five years just to throw it in my face again? We weren’t any kind of a chain, Zonn! And you refused to wear one, so -
ZONN: I refused? You refused to have any chain but your goddam crown! It still hurt!
IPOLA: And what you did hurt me twice as much! Don’t you blame me for your sexual impulses!
ZONN: I’m not blaming you for that - but it just seems as soon as I find a little peace ...
IPOLA: Don’t you DARE turn your back on me --
ZONN: Hey - this is my tribe, not yours! Not yet, anyway!.
IPOLA: Oo! You -- you --
MENTL: We’re not … gonna ever fight like that - are we?
ZONA: Depends. Are you planning to disappear for twenty-five years ?
MENTL: No, ma’am.
ZONA: Good. Six months without you was hard enough.

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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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DELL: There’s the mercy for thieves and assassins on my land.

MORCAI: Soooo - No questioning, yeh?

DELL: You did well to spare one of them.  But I already know where these two came from and who sent them.  It concerns the unfinished business between you and I.

MORCAI: Ahh.  The job, yeh?

DELL:  Oh yes.   You will need to pack for a bit of a trip.  There’s no hurry - yet. Still, it is best you arrive at the right moment.  (hands Morcai a scroll) Memorize all this and then destroy it thoroughly.

MAHD: Is Tom going away?

MORCAI: Sorry darlins.  Got to pay the bills, yeh?

DELL: Don’t fret, ladies, if I am any judge, he will return again safely.

FEEBY: We miss Tom already!

MORCAI: So, my lord, can I -

MORCAI: Fuuuuck me, lord Dell ...  Neat trick, yeh?

MAHD: Silly Tom! Lord Dell not fuck you! We fuck you!

FEEBY:  Yes! We go inside! Time  for good fuckings before Tom go!