Barnicia Grand Staircase
[Lanselot and Catiua prepare to flee with a guard of Dark Knights.]
LANSELOT: I do not leave the field eagerly...but I admit we are outmatched. Catiua, we return to Heim! This decrepit castle crumbles around us.
CATIUA: No! I've had my fill of flight!
LANSELOT: To the back chambers at once!
[She flees.]
DENAM: Sister!
LANSELOT: Denam of Golyat! May the chariot favor the better man!
[Lanselot attacks Denam.]
HOBYRIM: I need no eyes to know who stands before me, Tartaros.
LANSELOT: Hobyrim.... The finest swordsman Loslorien ever produced. I'm glad the loss of your sight has not diminished your skill. Our convictions may have been at odds, but I was sorry to lose you all the same.
HOBYRIM: One of your ability should have been able to find some other way forward. But this.... To change so much so quickly invites suffering.
LANSELOT: There was no other way. Lodis needs change. Move too slowly, and the commons would never recognize it for what it was. Our uprising showed them that change had come. But more importantly, it taught them where to kneel.
HOBYRIM: You wield an iron fist, when a velvet glove would serve.
DENAM: Your machinations end here, Lanselot. Accept defeat, and release my sister!
LANSELOT: Release her? She is with us of her own accord. And who are you to demand anything of the monarch of Valeria?
DENAM: You brought war with you when you came to these islands! Valeria needs you not at all, and my sister needs you even less.
LANSELOT: Oh? It was none other than the Bakram regent who summoned us here. Your very uncle, Brantyn Morne! We are not invaders, but mediators. It is you who insists upon war! If you truly wish order for the islands, then you will follow Lodis!
DENAM: I have no desire for order born of irons and bonds!
LANSELOT: Hmph. You remind me of another. Yes, he said much the same as you! Talk of "freedom." "People have the right to live out their own lives," was it? Very well. You may share his fate!
DENAM: You speak of Lanselot...
[The battle rages.]
LANSELOT: Ozma. So you truly have turned your sword against Lodis and Loslorien.
OZMA: I do not intend to make enemies of either. I have merely lost faith in you, high commander.
LANSELOT: I always thought well of you, Ozma. Never resting on the laurels you were born to. A bold spirit, you had. Deep love for your homeland, and a true desire for reform.... Pity.
OZMA: As I respected you, high commander. It was through your effort that Lodis rose from its own rot and returned to strength. But I cannot see a future in the course you and Balxephon take - the way you deceive and rule others with fear. You bring change, but what follows? Press down upon the people for too long, and you will warp the land and invite destruction.
LANSELOT: If your will is set, I will be happy to play the part expected of me. You will not win, Ozma.
[Denam continues fighting.]
LANSELOT: We cannot hold against such a force. We must withdraw!
DENAM: Lanselot, wait!
[Catiua stands firm in a lit room.]
MAN: Still nothing.
GRUFF MAN: Keep looking. She must be here somewhere.
MAN: ...This room been searched?
[Denam enters as Catiua moves to the corner.]
DENAM: Catiua...
SOLDIER: We've looked everywhere, sir. There's no sign of -
DENAM: You may go.
SOLDIER: Sir.
DENAM: Are you all right?
CATIUA: What do you mean to do with me?
DENAM: Do with you? I'm here to help you, sister.
CATIUA: Come no closer!
DENAM: Please, sister.
CATIUA: I am not your sister. I am Versalia, rightful ruler of Valeria.
DENAM: No, you will always be my sister.
CATIUA: ...
DENAM: We lived our whole lives together. One day you may be queen of Valeria, but you will always be a sister to me, blood be damned!
CATIUA: A lie. What brother would abandon his sister as you did?
[Choice 1 - I never abandoned you.]
DENAM: I had obligations - duties to fulfill. But in spirit, I was ever at your side.
CATIUA: Another lie! You were glad to be rid of me!
[Choice 1 - You are my sister, and I love you.]
DENAM: I love you, sister. How could I want to see you taken from me?
CATIUA: Your love is inconstant as the wind. It is my crown you love, not me!
DENAM: You're wrong, sister!
CATIUA: More lies! Everywhere I turn, more lies...
DENAM: ...
CATIUA: I wanted to be your sister. No, more simple than that. I wanted to be near someone who needed me...for me.
DENAM: ...
CATIUA: Why can't you see me for the person I am? Denam, look on me with your heart, as well as your eyes.
[Catiua pulls out a knife and thrusts it into her chest. Denam leaps to catch her from falling.]
DENAM: Sister, no! Someone! Help us!
CATIUA: I am a burden...no more...
DENAM: No!
[He wails as help arrives too late.]
[Choice 2 - I took no joy in our parting.]
DENAM: How could you think I would want to be parted from you? You're the only family I have left!
CATIUA: Denam...
DENAM: Father is dead. As he lay dying, he told me something. Had he returned you to the king when the prince died, this war might never have happened. But he could not bring himself to hand over the child who called him "father." He loved you too much! You were not of his blood, but he loved you no less. As I love you. You're the only family I've ever known.
CATIUA: ...
DENAM: I don't want to lose you, sister.
CATIUA: I'm sorry, Denam. How could I have been so selfish? Can you forgive me?
DENAM: It is I who should ask forgiveness. I will not part with you again.
[Choice 2 - I did only what I had to do.]
DENAM: I did leave you. I'll not deny it. But only because I did not want to see you caught up in this war, sister.
CATIUA: Is this war so important to you?
DENAM: Ending it is. But I need your help to do it, sister!
CATIUA: You beast! You would use me as the Dark Knights have! You of all people!
DENAM: No, you have it wrong! The Dark Knights would have kept you a vassal in your own kingdom. A puppet, no more. Come with us, sister, and together we will see you crowned a true queen.
CATIUA: I want no crown! It's you and Lodis and all the rest who clamor for my throne! No more... I can take no more!
DENAM: Calm, sister. It will be all right.
CATIUA: I'm past all that now. Forgive me, Denam.
[Catiua pulls out a knife and thrusts it into her chest. Denam leaps to catch her from falling.]
DENAM: Sister, no! Someone! Help us!
CATIUA: I am a burden...no more...
DENAM: No!
[He wails as help arrives too late.]
Barnicia Grand Staircase (Against Catiua)
[Lanselot and Catiua prepare to flee with a guard of Dark Knights.]
LANSELOT: I do not leave the field eagerly...but I admit we are outmatched. Catiua, we return to Heim! This decrepit castle crumbles around us.
CATIUA: No! I've had my fill of flight!
LANSELOT: You must heed me!
[She runs away from Lanselot.]
LANSELOT: Catiua, no!
[Denam enters just to see his sister try and run.]
DENAM: Sister! Sister, hear me! You are deceived! They care nothing about restoring your throne. They seek a relic left by the Dynast-King. Only one of Dorgalua's blood can help them grasp it.... They're using you!
LANSELOT: Do not lend him your ear, Catiua! Think on how you've been betrayed. By King Dorgalua, Abuna Prancet, even your brother! That's right. Your dear brother betrayed you. Have you forgotten your pain so soon!
CATIUA: So they serve their own ends. What of it? It is a fact of life and war that men use others...even as I will use them to defeat you. At least here I know I am needed.
[Vyce calls to his friend.]
VYCE: Why join them, Catiua? Have you forgotten what they did to Golyat?
CATIUA: I am Versalia, daughter of the Dynast-King. The Catiua you knew is no more. I stand with the Dark Knights to end this war.
VYCE: The war began when they came to these islands! Do you really think they will help you end it? Feh. Even if they do, they'll not let Valeria free of their clutches. We must win our own freedom, else it means nothing! Don't you see, Catiua? They are using you!
CATIUA: I'll not deny it. Do as you feel you must. Can you not trust me to do the same?
VYCE: This is no question of trust, Catiua! You may well be a princess. You may even end this war. But a darkness grows within you.
CATIUA: What would you know of it!
[Denam unwillingly battles against his sister.]
DENAM: Your machinations end here, Lanselot. Accept defeat, and release my sister!
LANSELOT: Release her? She is with us of her own accord. And who are you to demand anything of the monarch of Valeria?
DENAM: You brought war with you when you came to these islands! Valeria needs you not at all, and my sister needs you even less.
LANSELOT: Oh? It was none other than the Bakram regent who summoned us here. Your very uncle, Brantyn Morne! We are not invaders, but mediators. It is you who insists upon war! If you truly wish order for the islands, then you will follow Lodis!
DENAM: I have no desire for order born of irons and bonds!
LANSELOT: Hmph. You remind me of another. Yes, he said much the same as you! Talk of "freedom." "People have the right to live out their own lives," was it? Very well. You may share his fate!
DENAM: You speak of Lanselot...
[Catiua is slain.]
CATIUA: Denam.... You did need me.
DENAM: Sister...? No!
LANSELOT: What? Catiua!
CATIUA: To be needed.... As a sister, as a friend, as...family. That is all I wanted. I was...alone.
DENAM: Sister! No.... No!
LANSELOT: An ill-favored day, this is. This is what comes of looking down at your own feet and ignoring the horizon.
DENAM: No.... You did this to her. You did this to all of us!
LANSELOT: It was you who killed Catiua! You called her sister, and you murdered her! She was our last hope for lasting peace on these islands. That hope died with her.
[He flees.]
DENAM: Sister...
[Denam continues fighting.]
LANSELOT: We cannot hold against such a force. We must withdraw!
CATIUA: What!? And leave me here?
LANSELOT (to himself): Perhaps I should kill her now. The turmoil would only make it easier to assail these wrretched islands.... And make ruling them a far more difficult proposition. No, we trust to Catiua...for now.
[He turns.]
LANSELOT: Forgive me, Catiua. May the Empress watch over you.
[He abandons Catiua.]
CATIUA: Coward!
[Denam and Catiua retreat to a small room.]
DENAM: You shouldn't lurk in doorways. Are you all right?
CATIUA: What do you mean to do with me?
DENAM: Do with you? I'm here to help you, sister.
CATIUA: I am not your sister. I am Versalia, rightful ruler of Valeria.
DENAM: No, you will always be my sister.
CATIUA: ...
DENAM: We lived our whole lives together. One day you may be Queen of Valeria, but you will always be a sister to me, blood be damned!
CATIUA: A lie. What brother would abandon his sister as you did?
[Choice 1 - I never abandoned you.]
DENAM: I had obligations - duties to fulfill. But in spirit, I was ever at your side.
CATIUA: Is this war so important to you?
DENAM: Ending it is. But I need your help to do it, sister!
CATIUA: You beast! You would use me as the Dark Knights have! You of all people!
DENAM: No, you have it wrong! The Dark Knights would have kept you a vassal in your own kingdom. A puppet, no more. Come with us, sister, and together we will see you crowned a true queen.
[She steps back.]
CATIUA: I want no crown! It's you and Lodis and all the rest who clamor for my throne! No more.... I can take no more!
DENAM: Calm, sister. It will be all right.
CATIUA: I'm past all that now. Forgive me, Denam.
[Catiua pulls out a knife and thrusts it into her chest. Denam leaps to catch her from falling.]
DENAM: Sister, no! Someone! Help us!
CATIUA: I am a burden...no more...
DENAM: No!
[He wails as help arrives too late.]
[Choice 2 - I did only what I had to do.]
DENAM: I did leave you. I'll not deny it. But only because I did not want to see you caught up in this war, sister.
CATIUA: Another lie! You were glad to be rid of me!
[Choice 1 - You are my sister, and I love you.]
DENAM: I love you, sister. How could I want to see you taken from me?
CATIUA: Denam...
DENAM: Father is dead. As he lay dying, he told me something. Had he returned you to the King when the prince died, this war might never have happened. But he could not bring himself to hand over the child who called him "father." He loved you too much! You were not of his blood, but he loved you no less. As I love you. You're the only family I've ever known.
CATIUA: ...
DENAM: I don't want to lose you, sister.
CATIUA (tearing up): I'm sorry, Denam. How could I have been so selfish? Can you forgive me?
DENAM: That's behind us now. The important thing is that we'll never be apart again.
[Choice 2 - I took no joy in our parting.]
DENAM: How could you think I would want to be parted from you? You're the only family I have left!
CATIUA: But we're not family, Denam. Not really.
DENAM: ...
CATIUA: I wanted to be your sister. No, more simple than that. I wanted to be near someone who needed me...for me.
DENAM: ...
CATIUA: Why could we not be together? Why was I born a princess?
[Catiua pulls out a knife and thrusts it into her chest. Denam leaps to catch her from falling.]
DENAM: Sister, no! Someone! Help us!
CATIUA: I am a burden...no more...
DENAM: No!
[He wails as help arrives too late.]
Tzorious Field
[Lanselot and the remaining Dark Knights meet up with Barbas.]
LANSELOT: Barbas! I cannot say I'm pleased to see you live.
BARBAS: ...
LANSELOT: Back to Heim!
[The Dark Knights march. Lanselot halts to say some more to Barbas.]
LANSELOT: I've had enough of knights not worth their armor.
BARBAS: ...
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