EPISODE 81
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AGLOVALE :
[ sighs ]
Focus, Aglovale.
( There’s no end to this…
Corbenic, Corbenic…
True, there’s Galahad…
Better jot it down, just in case. )
What’s this…?
…
The dragon of Listenoise…
Did this belong to Father?
[ cut to mark’s office ]
DINADAN :
Are you not wondering why I’m here, Mark?
MARK :
Do you think me stupid?
DINADAN :
No, just oddly laconic.
MARK :
What a complicated word to use. Do you really know what it means?
DINADAN :
Ah, there’s a bit of pedantry. I was starting to think it’d never come.
There you are, in all your tart glory.
MARK :
Your inability to stay in your place leaves me speechless, Dinadan.
DINADAN :
I’ll take it as a compliment.
MARK :
So I did not make myself clear.
Even your late father knew when it was unbecoming of him to ignore his station.
His passing was such a great tragedy.
DINADAN :
You’re a pretty poor actor.
MARK :
And you’re wasting my time.
I imagine Iseult’s vanishing act has something to do with your sudden arrival.
She could have picked out a better interlocutor for me, at least.
So, be my guest.
How will you plead for me to free Tristan?
DINADAN :
I think that deep down, you already know why you should free him.
You know everything Tristan has endured.
You know that, for some reason I can’t fathom, he’s devoted to you, and that he loves you.
He’s overcome a great many obstacles, all to stay by your side.
If he thought only of himself,
he would have left with Iseult long ago.
Rest assured that I neither caution nor understand everything he may do.
What’s going on with the three of you seems… completely bonkers to me.
But giving more credit to the fear these oligarchs have stirred in you
means disregarding the love Tristan has borne you all these years.
… It’s…
…
… oddly enough, giving in to obvious manipulation.
What are you hiding, Mark?
[ cut to tristan’s cell ]
TRISTAN :
Palamedes! Mordred!
PALAMEDES :
Quiet!
TRISTAN :
Where’s Iseult?
PALAMEDES :
Bors brought her somewhere safe.
TRISTAN :
Oh, how I long to see her again…
…to hold her tight again…
PALAMEDES :
…One more thing.
Say “I need your help, Palamedes”.
“Thank you for coming to save me.”
MORDRED :
Sir Palamedes…
PALAMEDES :
What? It’s not too much to ask,
unlike everything we’ve done for him up until now.
TRISTAN :
…
…I need y…
…yo…your…
your…
PALAMEDES :
…
Alright, forget it.
But I’m holding out for your thanks once we’re out of here.
TRISTAN :
…Very well, that’s a promise.
On my honor.
PALAMEDES :
…Don’t judge me, Mordred.
MORDRED :
I didn’t say anything.
[ back to mark’s office woo!! ]
DINADAN :
What are you hiding, Mark?
MARK :
…
Do you think yourself very clever, Dinadan?
DINADAN :
( Heh. ) I suppose I do, yes.
MARK :
You aren’t.
You see,
I know you’ve come here several times, enough
to know Tintagel quite well.
You know there is an exit meant for guards only, near the southern wing.
You know that very same exit can lead to the dungeons, if one knows the way…
…which you do.
DINADAN :
…
MARK :
Wouldn’t it be a shame
if I had foreseen that…
… and made preparations you did not anticipate?
[ mordred gulps. ]
TRISTAN :
Let us through.
I stand wrongly accused of conspiring against the crown. You all know this.
Jory, tell them, I know you think the same.
JORY :
…
…Sorry, Sir Tristan.
It’s my job.
TRISTAN :
Jory…
?? :
Leave poor Jory out of this, Tristan.
He’s got a family to feed.
We can’t all live off our crowns.
ROUND TABLE TRIVIA
Cities and their buildings are protected by guards.
They’re soldiers by trade, but not knights. More often than not, they’re commoners.
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