EPISODE 34
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tw : animal death
BRUNOR :
DIN!
[ he pulls din up from the edge ]
Din, is everything alright?
Are you hurt?
DIN :
I, no, I…
Oh, no.
…Fifi…
PALAMEDES :
How was your hunt, your Majesty?
MARK :
Nothing remarkable, Sir Palamedes.
I brought back a deer that gave my archers a great deal of trouble.
“Look, Sir Mark, we got it,” they told me, then showed me a beast they'd shot full of arrows.
Can’t even aim for the heart. It’d be more efficient to put down the poor thing.
PERCIVAL :
But, when hunting deer, aiming for the lungs is…
easier…
MARK :
What an insolent squire, to contradict his own host.
Unsurprising coming from a Welshman, all things considered.
I’ve come to expect perfect aim from Tristan on our hunts, you see. I’m sure he could tell you all about it, if he weren't running late.
PERCIVAL :
…If I really was that insolent…
…I would’ve called you horse-faced, march.
( * stallion in Welsh )
BORS :
Percival!
Please, Sir Mark invited you to his own table.
MARK :
Funny you should say that, Welshman.
Your father used to say the exact same thing about me.
What a shame that his slandering ways
did not save him from his tragic fate.
( disdainful )
PERCIVAL :
You⎯
TRISTAN :
Oh, uncle!
Forgive me. Iseult insisted on seeing to my wounds before dinner.
MARK :
Your wounds? What happened to you?
TRISTAN :
Look at this!
Kelpie bite.
ISEULT :
Fortunately, it will not scar.
TRISTAN :
All thanks to you, my queen.
PERCIVAL :
( … “My queen”? )
MARK :
Look at me, dear nephew.
[ wow he looks delighted!! ]
You seem to be doing well, despite it all.
I’m glad to see you.
TRISTAN :
And I you, uncle.
[ same dumbass smile :’) ]
It’s always a pleasure to come back and visit
you and your lovely wife.
ISEULT :
Oh, please…
PERCIVAL :
( But, Sir Tristan…
Dame Iseult is…
his uncle’s wife? )
MARK :
Very well, now that you’re all here,
can you tell me what business brings this many knights of the Round Table to my home?
Arthur would undoubtedly drink poison rather than ask after me.
BORS :
Please, my lord, don’t mistake our intentions for malice. We’ve only come to visit the Lady of the Lake.
As you must know, she spends part of the year on your lands.
MARK :
Indeed. Not that she asked me what I thought of it, but
some would say she was here before I was.
BORS :
We were trying to reach her when the kelpie took us by surprise.
I'm worried, though. Viviane would never let any such creature anywhere near her lake.
MARK :
Where do you think she might be, Sir Bors?
BORS :
…Probably in France,
in her primary home, in the forest of Brocéliande.
MARK :
So you’ve come to ask me for a ship?
Why not head back to Camelot and ask Arthur for one?
TRISTAN :
Uncle, this is important.
And it’d be a show of goodwill towards Arthur.
MARK :
Goodwill?
Arthur will only be satisfied if I turn Cornwall over to him,
and I should be the one proving my goodwill?
PERCIVAL :
( I don’t understand anything that’s happening right now. )
MARK :
( sigh )
…I have a merchant vessel set to leave in a little over a week. Its first port of call will be Benwick.
You’re free to come aboard⎯
BORS :
Thank you, my lord⎯
MARK :
⎯on one condition.
I demand that Arthur travel to my court sometime in the near future, so we can put our quarrels aside, at long last.
DINADAN :
It’s going to be okay, big girl…
It’s going to be okay.
( he gives fifi a kiss ): )
BRUNOR :
Do you want me to do it?
DINADAN :
…Please.
MORDRED :
( We turned back for the time being, to try and find a solution.
The return trip was shrouded in silence.
Dinadan went off to the stables without a single word,
and I don’t know what to say. )
BRUNOR :
Your hands.
MORDRED :
Excuse me?
BRUNOR :
Give 'em here.
These shouldn’t scar, but you’d better get them taken care of.
…
You’re not very chatty, are you?
Or am I stressing you out?
MORDRED :
…I just don’t know what to make of all this,
or what I can do.
BRUNOR :
How so?
MORDRED :
About this monster, and
about Dinadan himself.
His reactions seem so cold.
He’s so calm, despite the fact your father died.
And he looked like he really did care for his horse, so I would have thought he’d be more…
…emotional.
BRUNOR : …
Family business is always complicated.
I don’t really want to talk about mine.
MORDRED :
…I can understand that.
BRUNOR :
But
Fifi was a gift from our father.
He and Dinadan had a complicated relationship.
Din’s always dealt with things this way, by avoiding sensitive topics
and throwing himself at some other problem.
DINADAN :
Talking about me behind my back, I see.
That’s not very nice of you.
Anyway, I was looking after the horses,
and I took the opportunity to take a look at them.
If his Majesty will gift me one now that I’ve lost mine, that is.
BRUNOR :
Din⎯
DINADAN :
But I assume you expect some explanations regarding Lionel, don’t you?
At a glance, I’d say it clearly has something to do with the Grail.
At least, that’s what Merlin’s led me to believe.
BRUNOR :
Din.
DINADAN :
So, if we research the Grail, we should be able to find a solution,
because right now, I have no idea how to deal with Lionel.
If he starts attacking passersby, it’s going to be a problem.
BRUNOR :
Dinadan.
Stop it.
Until other knights come to our aid, there’s nothing we can do,
and reinforcements won’t get here until tomorrow.
Get some rest tonight.
DINADAN :
Very well. Let’s talk about something else, then.
I found my old guitar in the stables.
BRUNOR :
That’s not what I⎯
DINADAN :
If you only knew, Mordred…
Nearly every song I wrote on this guitar earned me a few good slaps. ( I was kind of asking for them, I’ll admit. )
I thought I’d lost it.
Who knows what it was doing in the stables.
BRUNOR :
…Dad put it there.
He wanted you to be able to find it again,
without giving it to you himself, obviously.
You know how he…was.
He didn’t have it in him to tell you outright.
DINADAN :
Ah… Yeah, right.
Of course.
He pulled the same stunt when he gave me Fifi.
…I…
I’m…
Sorry, Brunor, I…
I should’ve been there…
BRUNOR :
Drop it, Din.
You didn’t do anything wrong.
It’s going to be okay.
MORDRED :
( I can kind of understand what it’s like to have a parent
you don’t know how to act around.
I wonder if
my uncle, my mother
or even Gawain
also left something for me to find? )
?? :
Camelot, at last.
MORGAN :
I hope my dear brother will be happy to see me.
ROUND TABLE TRIVIA
A knight’s horse is omnipresent in their life and has a special bond with its master.
Hence, it usually gets its own funeral rites, and can even be buried alongside its knight in some situations.
Their remains can be used to make commemorative jewelry, like a bracelet woven out of horsehair.
( The ones depicted are 1) 100% horsehair, and 2) hair with a leather base. )
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