EPISODE 4

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[ birds chirping ]

AGLOVALE :

( sigh )

I’m not sure what you’re waiting for.

She won’t come, Percival.

We have to go, we've got a ship to catch.

PERCIVAL : 

…

Just one moment…

NESTE : 

Sir Percival!

PERCIVAL : 

Ah, Neste!

NESTE : 

I really thought I wouldn’t make it!

I just wanted to say goodbye...

PERCIVAL : 

Thank you for coming.

… What about my mother?

NESTE : 

... I did everything I could to convince her,

but she didn’t want any heart-wrenching farewells.

PERCIVAL : 

I see…

NESTE : 

Sir…

MERLIN : 

This is only a goodbye.

You’ll see her again.

So dry your tears, Percy. 

All will be well.

PERCIVAL :

Okay.

PERCIVAL : 

Goodbye, Neste!

Take good care of my mother!

NESTE : 

You can count on me, young master!

AGLOVALE : 

Will Merlin ever stop showing up so… sneakily?

GALAHAD : 

Oh, you’re exaggerating, sir, it's not that bad.

AGLOVALE : 

Please, you were terrified when he appeared yesterday.

PERCIVAL : 

Say, Aglovale…

AGLOVALE : 

Hm?

PERCIVAL : 

Is Merlin human?

AGLOVALE : 

...Hard to say.

The only thing we know for certain is that he’s much older than he looks.

He’s first and foremost a druid, and the court's mage.

Why not ask him yourself when we get to Camelot, hm?

PERCIVAL : 

Camelot?

AGLOVALE : 

That's where the king's court is.

But first, we must head for the nearest harbor.

A ship is waiting for us there.

GALAHAD : 

Looks like we’re almost in Caernarfon.

AGLOVALE : 

Perfect. We’re keeping time.

GALAHAD : 

That said, Norgales is very pretty.

You grew up here, didn’t you?

AGLOVALE : 

Hm, no. I grew up in Listenoise, to the south.

GALAHAD : 

Right, of course.

GALAHAD : 

Hey, Percy!

Wait, you don't mind if I call you Percy, right?

PERCY : 

Uh, sure.

GALAHAD : 

Well, I would’ve thought you’d be happier to be on your way to becoming a knight!

PERCIVAL : 

That’s not it…

It’s only that

I don’t know what to expect.

Your daily life is so strange and foreign to me.

The more answers I get, the more questions I have in turn.

And I hear my mother’s words with every step I take away from her.

( sigh )

Maybe she was right.

Ah, but I didn’t mean to say…

AGLOVALE : 

It’s only natural to be afraid, Percival.

In just a few hours, I forced you to give up on everything you knew. 

Believe me, I take no pleasure in it,

but this is your duty.
...

Forgive me. I must have made a rather poor first impression.

Seeing our mother again affected me more than I wished it would…

… for in the past, she forced me to give up on everything I knew, 

and I know you must feel paralyzed, facing the unknown and others’ expectations.

But,

I won’t let you go through it all on your own, Percival.

( smiles )

You can count on your eldest brother to guide you as much as I can on the path to knighthood.

PERCIVAL : 

Oh!

So you can smile!

AGLOVALE : 

Yes? Doesn't everyone?

GALAHAD : 

It is pretty rare, to be honest.

AGLOVALE : 

(Hey!) I didn’t ask you for your opinion, Galahad.

PERCIVAL : 

( I spent the journey asking questions.

I learned a lot, thanks to my brother’s patience.

The island of Britain was unified by a man called Arthur Pendragon

but he wasn’t accepted by all the other monarchs right away.

As a symbol of equality between all, he created the Round Table. )

AGLOVALE : 

To get to the point, it’s a military order.

Each knight is vassal to a king,

but every king, like myself, is King Arthur’s subject.

A knight can also serve Arthur directly, in the name of their king.

That makes them part of the Round Table, the alliance of Britain’s forces,

and allows them to sit at the table the order is named after.

PERCIVAL : 

( Made round so all may sit around it as equals…

All of that made little sense to me.

I still knew nothing of chivalry, 

and of the reasons that might have led Arthur to push for equality. )

GALAHAD : 

Sir, I can see Camelot!

[ birds chirping,

hubbub of the city ]

PERCIVAL : 

( I've never seen so many people in the same place before... 

It’s so…

noisy… )

AGLOVALE : 

Very well, we’re here.

Percival, 

Galahad and I will go tell the seneschal we've returned.

PERCIVAL : 

The seneschal?
What’s that?

AGLOVALE : 

Long story short, he’s the one who keeps the castle running.

Be good and stay here in the meantime, hm?

It won’t take long.

PERCIVAL :

Y-yes.

( Enough! 

Be quiet!

Stop! )

?? : 

Hey, you.

Are you okay?

PERCIVAL : 

( shakes ) 

I⎯

I don’t know.

?? : 

Take a deep breath, lad.

Focus on my voice,

and come with me.

I’ll find you a quieter spot, okay? 

PERCIVAL : 

Okay.

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