CATIUA: I am alone without you.
VOICE: No. You have always been alone.
CATIUA (turning): Who's there!?
[The Dark Knight Lanselot appears from the shadows.]
CATIUA: Lanselot Tartaros! What are you doing here?
LANSELOT: Your mother left this world upon your birth. And your father followed her only a few months before the war broke out. Your blood begins and ends with you, Catiua. You are alone, truly.
CATIUA: what are you talking about? I have a brother! Surely you've not forgotten Denam!
LANSELOT: I gather you have realized the Abuna was not your father. Yet you assumed that your "brother" shared your orphaned lineage. You assumed...wrongly.
[A flash of lighting streaks across the sky.]
CATIUA: Then who am I? Who do you say I am!?
LANSELOT: Versalia. Your true name is Versalia Oberyth.
CATIUA: Versalia Oberyth.... That's not possible.
LANSELOT: You are cautious. Good. House Oberyth gave Valeria her king. You are his daughter.
[Another flash of lightning is followed by a sudden downpour.]
LANSELOT: But it was not Queen Vernotta who bore you into this world. One of her handmaidens, a girl named Mannaflora, caught the king's eye. But even as you quickened in the womb, the queen carried the unborn prince. Wanting no rival for her son, she expelled your mother from the castle before you were born. Mannaflora died giving birth to you.
CATIUA: Who would believe such a tale?
LANSELOT: It was the Bakram regent, Brantyn Morne, who took you in. He left you in the care of his brother, Abuna Prancet. Were it not for you and your secret, a man such as Brantyn would never have risen so high or so swift.
CATIUA: Nonsense and lies!
LANSELOT: But there is proof: Your necklace. It bears an inscription, written in the old tongue. One with your religious training should have no trouble reading it.
CATIUA: ...
LANSELOT: Labon Versalia xan phon, destonia lera phoenan. To my daughter Versalia, eternal beloved. A gift from King Dorgalua to celebrate your birth. The Queen made it appear as though you and your mother had been killed. He went to his grave full expecting to meet you in the beyond. You must have read that inscription. Nurtured doubts about your origins. Am I wrong?
CATIUA: What do you want from me?
LANSELOT: For you to return with us to Heim.
[A pair of men join Lanselot.]
LANSELOT: There, Abuna Prancet can answer any other questions you may have.
[He waits for Catiua to respond. She does not.]
LANSELOT: This way, Princess Catiua.
[Catiua follows Lanselot.]
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