EPISODE 16

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BREUSE : 

… if you don’t want me to make you wish you’d never been born.
So give me the shield, kid.

PERCIVAL : 

… No.

BREUSE : 

… You know,
I found it pretty funny that Mordred thought I was from Caledonia.
I probably do have a bit of an accent.
That said, though?
I wouldn’t know.
I’m one of those knights whose roots were destroyed,
and who found themselves serving under some king through sheer luck of the draw.
So unlike other knights,
my name’s not tied to any place.
No Breuse of Caledonia, of Moray or of Orkney.
Nah, the name folks know me by
is much more accurate.
You know what that is?

[he slams poor percy into the water rip]

BREUSE :

Breuse Sans Pitie.
And trust me,
I earned it.

[ a woman's voice sings. ]

PERCIVAL : 

( Ah…
Mother…?
Mother… please talk to me… )

BRIANE : 

Oh, cariad bach, are you ill? 

(*my little darling)

PERCIVAL : 

( I think so, yeah… )

BRIANE :

I’m here, don't worry.
I’ll take care of you.

PERCIVAL : 

( Mother…
I miss you… )

BRIANE : 

Oh, cariad…
You shouldn’t have left, you know?
It’s too late now.
I even got used to it, given all the trouble you caused me.
But you don’t care one bit about the way I feel, do you?
I did everything I could to keep you safe, and you…
You seize the first opportunity that comes your way to run off with a brother you don’t even know.
Why don’t you think about everything you put me through?

PERCIVAL : 

( Mother, no, I… )

BRIANE : 

You too, Percival.
You’ll end up just like your father too.

PERCIVAL : 

( Who… ? )

 … Father?

?? : 

Sorry, Percy.

DINADAN : 

I’m a bit too young for that, don’t you think?
Hello, sunshine.

PERCIVAL : 

Dinadan… ?

DINADAN : 

You were shaking in your sleep.
Bad dream?

PERCIVAL : 

You could say that. 

(sigh)
What…
happened?
Where are we?

DINADAN : 

Some abandoned farm, two hours north of Leeds,
out of the rain and with a roof over our heads.
How are you feeling?

PERCIVAL : 

… Not so good.
I’m cold.

DINADAN : 

Maybe you got sick.
You did stay in your wet clothes for some time, after all.
We took a while to find you, you'd drifted a fair way out,
and you were in a pretty bad way.
It wasn’t the river that beat you up, though, was it?

PERCIVAL : 

No, I…
After losing sir Tristan, I…
Sir Tristan!

Is he here too?

DINADAN : 

Oh, yeah, don’t worry, he’s⎯

TRISTAN : 

Percival, you’re awake!

DINADAN :

⎯fine. 

TRISTAN : 

I’m so sorry, I let go of you when I hit a rock.
( I dropped the shield, too. )

[ the text hovering over Mordred is “shy”, cute!! ]

TRISTAN : 

I was beside myself thinking I’d let you drown,
but did you see? We made it!

PERCIVAL : 

Haha, yeah!
It was exhilarating, my heart was so light when we jumped⎯

Ouch!
It hurts when I laugh…

TRISTAN : 

Maybe you cracked a rib!

Haha, my ribs hurt too! ( Gimme five! )

DINADAN : 

There's really nothing to be proud of.

TRISTAN : 

Aw, but why are you in such a bad mood, Din?
We made it, didn’t we?

DINADAN :

Because it’s always like this with you!
We say “no tourney”, you do everything in your power to participate anyway.
We try to deal with this calmly and you run off, shield in hand.
Percy could’ve died, I’ll have you know.

TRISTAN : 

But!
It was really cool.
[ ✨confidence✨]

DINADAN : 

…
Hell yeah it was!

[ ✨friendship✨]

MORDRED : 

(sighs)
Percival.
How are you feeling?
You look like you got rolled over by a cart.

PERCIVAL : 

Oh, no, just Breuse.
But I’m fine!

DINADAN, TRISTAN : 

Breuse?

PERCIVAL : 

The shield drifted off with me,
but Breuse was there when I woke up.
I didn’t stand a chance of making it if I took him on, so…
I focused on this instead.

TRISTAN : 

Oh!

I have no idea what that is.

PERCIVAL : 

It’s a gwaetgi.
( My mother used to have one. )
A bracelet, bound to another through magic.
Breuse probably used it to find the shield.

DINADAN : 

How so?

MORDRED: 

He did something like this.

PERCIVAL : 

Mordred?

MORDRED : 

Where I come from, it’s called a cù dubh.
You could translate that as “hound”.
I assume it's pretty self-explanatory.
If we follow the light,
we’ll find the shield.

PERCIVAL : 

How do you know that, Mordred?
( Even though I knew what it was, I didn’t know how to use it. )

MORDRED : 

My mother is a mage,
so I know a few things about magic.

( Percival : “Wow, like Merlin?”
Mordred : “No, no one’s as weird as Merlin.” )

DINADAN : 

Hm, it’s odd.

TRISTAN : 

Din? 

DINADAN : 

(thinky) 

You’ve never heard of this thing, so it probably doesn’t belong to the king.
On top of that, Breuse knew where to find the shield in the first place, since he stole it from Corbenic Castle.
How and why did he get his hands on this “hound”?

TRISTAN : 

He’d already made plans to sell the shield to the sheriff to make some extra money off the tourney.
Maybe he was worried he’d lose track of it after that?

DINADAN : 

That makes no sense.
The way I see, he either meant to lose the shield…
… or he wanted us to get our hands on this “hound”.

TRISTAN : 

Either way, we have a lead!
So let’s go!

DINADAN : 

What, right now?

TRISTAN : 

The sooner we leave, the sooner we can be done with this quest.

DINADAN : 

Tristan, we’re all exhausted, at the very least.
We’ll leave after we’ve gotten some rest and stocked up on supplies for the trip.

TRISTAN : 

Aw, but I want to get back to Cornwall, it’s been almost two months since I left!

PERCIVAL : 

I’m sorry.
None of this would’ve happened if I’d been able to stand up to Breuse.
I’m way too weak.

DINADAN : 

Listen, Percival.
You could’ve died, do you realize that?
(sigh)
I should be the one apologizing for putting you in that situation.
… Wait, no, Tristan should be the one apologizing! I did everything I could to avoid mortal danger!

TRISTAN : 

Apologize?!
Did you see how much progress Percival made in a single fight?
It was wonderful, you kept your balance the entire time!
It was worth it!
Aren’t you proud?

PERCIVAL : 

…
[ radiant! ]
Yes, I am!

TRISTAN :

[ very pleased! ]
Actually, I hope you’re both ready to be put through the paces.

MORDRED : 

Excuse me?

TRISTAN : 

I’m almost certain Din didn’t make you train much during your trip. 

So you can be sure
that I’ll make up for his failings,
and that you’ll beat the snot clean out of Breuse for what he did. 

ROUND TABLE TRIVIA

Gradalis characters speak English among themselves, with more or less strong accents.

BREUSE [strong Scottish accent] : 

I don’t understand anything you’re saying.

PERCIVAL [strong Welsh accent] : 

What? I don’t understand anything you’re saying.

Many knights speak two languages or more due to their different upbringings, so there are many languages spoken at the Round Table.

For example, Mordred and Gawain also speak Scottish Gaelic.

Gawain : 

How are you today, my little hero? [*baby pet name]

Mordred : 

Stop it.

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