VANCE: Take the scouts alive! They'll talk...or they'll scream.
SOLDIER: Decurion, I know this woman. She led the ambush at Lodum.
VANCE: This...-this- is the Thunder Maiden!?
[Arycelle appears, proclaiming her nickname with a strike of fear down the Galgastani units.]
ARYCELLE: What of it? Near six hundred fell at my bidding, 'tis true. Would you deliver their vengeance? The blood of tenfold that number stains your hands! And then there is Balmamusa.... I'll not be lectured by the likes of you!
[Denam arrives as Arycelle appears to take on the entire Galgastani force.]
DENAM: Is that Arycelle? The Galgastani have her outnumbered. We must help!
CATIUA: Oh? It is she pursues us. What cause have we to help her?
DENAM: Sister, no doubt you are right. But I will live with no more regrets!
CATIUA: My dear Denam...
[Denam and Arycelle unwillingly join forces to vanquish the Galgastani.]
DENAM: Arycelle, I'm coming! Draw closer, if you can!
ARYCELLE: Explain yourself, Denam! I am your sworn enemy. I name you traitor!
DENAM: I am no traitor. But I was wrong to fight for the Duke. I see that now.
ARYCELLE: Still you spout treason! Stay back! Any closer, and I'll kill you!
DONNALTO: Arycelle, your faith in Leonar is understandable - I would fain belive him myself. But he - Leonar has lost his way. He forgets that no aim, no matter how lofty, is ever served by sin. He was not like this before. I fear he has lost his way.
ARYCELLE: It's true then? Leonar is responsible for Balmamusa? Abuna, I...I can't believe it. I do not want to believe.
DONNALTO: Nor do I. But the blood of our people soaks his sword. Perhaps as high champion of the Knights of Almorica, he placed duty before honor.
ARYCELLE: Why him? Why was he alone tasked with such a burden?
DONNALTO: I know no more than you. Indeed, it vexes me I did not espy it in his heart before it was too late.
ARYCELLE: No. I loved him. It is I should have known. Perhaps...it was my love that blinded me.
[Arycelle contemplates amidst a forceful Galgastani attack.]
ARYCELLE: I will not die...not until I have the truth from Leonar.
CANOPUS: There's no doubting your resolve, but how long must this go on? We are not the enemy!
ARYCELLE: No more words. I must have proof!
CANOPUS: Fair enough. But is not the enemy of an enemy a friend? The Galgastani are our common adversary. Can we not first deal with them?
ARYCELLE: A truce then. For now.
CANOPUS: For now. There's no getting round to the truth if we're dead!
[Arycelle falls in combat]
ARYCELLE: Brother, forgive me. I did not intend to join you...before avenging you.
DENAM: No! It wasn't supposed to be this way! No!!!
VANCE: My life spills on the ground.... Forgive me, brothers. Your deaths go...unavenged.
DENAM (lowers his head): Again I've failed. Am I so powerless as this?
[Together the troops fend of Vance and the Galgastani.]
VANCE: My life spills on the ground.... Forgive me, brothers. Your deaths go...unavenged.
ARYCELLE: I can go no further. I surrender, Denam. I'm too weary to go on.
DENAM: Then your life is mine. But I will not claim it here.
ARYCELLE: So I am to be your hostage? Do not think such tactics will dissuade the duke.
DENAM: You have it wrong. We wish only to clear our names. Watch with your eyes, listen with your ears. Witness the truth of this war for yourself. If still you cannot trust me, your life will be yours once more. And my life yours as well.
ARYCELLE: Your words have the ring of truth, but I am a Knight of Almorica. Honor demands evidence more substantial.
DENAM (nods): Then I will speak on this no more. Come, we should be going.
[Denam and Arycelle form a tentative alliance as they travel onward.]
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