1. The Senate named your uncle Regent,
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2. and he's named Tihomir his Viceroy.
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3. My father?
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4. Alive but sick.
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5. Too sick.
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6. His secret is not a secret anymore.
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7. It gets worse.
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8. The Coriel'Tauvi have launched
an offensive across the frontier,
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9. claiming we're responsible
for the falling sky.
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10. Claiming we attacked Mene herself.
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11. I need to see my father.
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12. How many is that?
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13. Wait. Don't answer.
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14. I know. It's just, It's the same result.
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15. It's always the same,
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16. no matter when or where
in the orbital path the moon explodes.
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17. Everything dies.
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18. Yet, in the first world,
that's not what happened.
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19. The destruction of the moon
changed everything, but life went on.
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20. Removing the second moon
stabilized the Mad Moon's orbit.
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21. It allowed the prison to hold far longer
than it would in the first world.
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22. But— But what if...
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23. Here.
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24. Of course.
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25. It was a shield.
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26. When the end came,
its gravity protected the world below.
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27. Mene. Mother. What did that do to you?
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28. Run.
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29. What the...
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30. The Coriel'Tauvi are turning tail.
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31. The river is the demarcation point
for the old boundaries.
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32. The bulk of their forces will have
crossed back over it by nightfall.
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33. Only to attack again once the moon rises.
It's always the same.
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34. The day is ours, the night is theirs.
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35. No.
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36. This is different. This is new.
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37. It's happening across the frontier.
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38. I'll fly more reconnaissance
over their forward positions.
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39. Perhaps I can work out their intentions
and encourage them along.
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40. For the Slayer.
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41. Wait.
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42. It's from General Drysi,
commander of the Principality Army.
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43. She wants to meet.
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44. An offer of parley.
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45. I need to think.
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46. Your uncle sent the regular army
to the front,
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47. along with most of the Praetorian Guard.
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48. Tihomir's private legion remained to...
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49. protect the Imperial City.
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50. "Protect" it.
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51. Dearest niece.
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52. Welcome home.
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53. After the Principality attack,
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54. we deployed the Slayer
and inflicted substantial losses.
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55. We're told that their general
offered a parley.
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56. So, the battle nears its end?
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57. Their withdrawal smells of a trap.
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58. My soldiers are already mobilizing
for the counter-offensive.
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59. Our soldiers.
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60. My soldiers.
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61. Let's not quibble over semantics.
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62. The situation on the border
is not what it seems.
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63. I believe the elves withdrew
because they learned what I know.
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64. What threatens us is not one another
but something greater.
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65. Lina will accept parley
and, if possible, negotiate an armistice.
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66. Princess, while you were off
on your little adventure,
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67. Imperium blood was shed. Lives were lost.
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68. You abandon your station in a time of war,
return with these unhelpful notions,
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69. and dare to think
you know what's best for all of us?
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70. You're clearly as mad as my poor brother.
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71. Council is concluded.
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72. She doesn't understand.
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73. Never had
so many Dragon Knights in here.
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74. What gods awful monstrosity
could need so many brave souls?
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75. We're going south.
We found an Eldwurm in Barrowhaven.
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76. - "An old worm?" Is that dangerous?
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77. Eldwurm. It's the most dangerous.
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78. Biggest kind of dragon.
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79. We're gonna kill it before it wipes out
the town and everything around it.
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80. - But we're around it.
- And you'll continue to be safe.
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81. - I could use another round.
- I'll make it two.
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82. Wha— Another headache?
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83. I'm telling you,
I don't care how bad those nightmares are.
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84. You need to sleep.
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85. I'm fine.
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86. You look about six-feet-under fine.
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87. What happened to Kaden,
what you saw, it is horrible.
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88. Give it time.
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89. These are on the hous—
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90. Was that the old worm?
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91. There! It's coming from up there!
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92. Help!
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93. Help me.
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94. - Bram!
- Huh?
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95. Help me with this!
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96. Go. Go as fast as you can!
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97. Here. Grab my hand.
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98. What the fuck was he?
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99. Davion.
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100. I know.
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101. The Knights. The squires, they're—
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102. I know.
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103. Bram! Bram, sound off!
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104. Here.
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105. Father. I'm home.
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106. Where is my father?
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107. The Spire, Highness.
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108. Regent Shabarra ordered it
for the Emperor's safety.
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109. Sherzi, you're home.
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110. I was just thinking about the summer
we spent picking figs with Mirana.
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111. So cold today.
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112. Sing for me?
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113. It's me, Father.
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114. It's Mirana.
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115. Mirana?
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116. Yes. Send for your mother.
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117. Mother is gone.
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118. Mother has been gone for quite some time.
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119. Oh.
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120. Yes.
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121. Dead five years now.
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122. Five years, almost to the day.
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123. - Five years tomorrow.
- Yes. Yes, yes.
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124. Tomorrow, the day.
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125. I need your wisdom, Father.
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126. I need your help.
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127. I am of two worlds, two lives.
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128. And I keep mistaking one for the other.
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129. Which is fine, except a man is dead.
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130. And another man...
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131. the man I loved,
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132. is not the man I loved at all.
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133. And now he hates me.
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134. What is memory? What is imagined?
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135. The world is full of ghosts,
and I'm alone, Father.
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136. Would you believe me,
daughter, if I told you I understand?
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137. I see your mother everywhere.
I can't stop seeing your mother.
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138. And when she is gone,
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139. she takes the world with her.
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140. I remember the day Mother died.
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141. I remember the day you both died.
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142. I held your hand.
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143. I was swept from the palace.
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144. I cried with you. I cried out your name.
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145. Oh, I was barely a woman.
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146. I was just a little girl...
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147. who couldn't help her or you.
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148. Not in that world.
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149. And not in this one.
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150. Ooh.
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151. Oh, now I see.
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152. Oh, my poor girl.
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153. You've learned the most terrifying secret
in the universe.
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154. Our parents,
no matter how much they love us,
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155. cannot protect us from everything.
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156. Nor we, them.
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157. Love is not about making a perfect world,
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158. free from harm and free from pain.
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159. Love is living together
in the world as it is, come what may.
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160. Five years... tomorrow.
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161. Five years... to the day.
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162. I was just thinking about Mother.
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163. I was thinking
about why she chose to live a mortal life.
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164. Why she chose death.
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165. I asked her once before the end,
begged her to explain.
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166. She said,
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167. "Fi, accepting death is the only act
of true power in the universe."
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168. I stormed out.
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169. My heart was broken.
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170. I didn't understand. Not then.
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171. I think I understand now.
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172. In the end, no god, no monster,
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173. no ancient primordial entity
is more dangerous than despair.
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174. There are things you must know.
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175. I saw the book, Papa. I read it.
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176. I know what you've done and why.
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177. I should be horrified, and I am.
I should be angry, and I am.
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178. Yet, I know how I felt when Mother died,
and when I thought you might.
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179. I'd have done anything,
anything at all to make it different.
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180. But all of this, for me?
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181. A multiverse
and innumerable souls gone, for me.
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182. Except that is not what happened.
That is not all that happened.
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183. This is neither the first iteration
of a remade universe nor the second.
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184. It is not the tenth, the one hundredth,
or one-thousandth.
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185. This universe is experiment 12,403.
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186. Twelve thousand...
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187. Creation is a delicate thing.
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188. It took hundreds of iterations
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189. simply to learn
how to make a stable universe.
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190. Most died in infancy,
the stars boiling away into the void.
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191. But you, daughter.
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192. Making this world,
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193. this specific world,
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194. causality was the second lesson.
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195. And all of that for nothing.
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196. The Ancients will escape,
the Mad Moon will explode.
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197. Only now, it means the end
of all life on this planet.
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198. As I said,
our Tower will survive the holocaust.
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199. As will you. As will we.
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200. You say that
like the thought makes it better,
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201. like it's not a nightmare
I can never wake up from.
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202. Another dead world, all for me.
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203. But I have to watch this one die.
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204. Father of Fire!
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205. Welcome.
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206. My dream. I'm back in my dream.
Which means...
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207. You are not dead.
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208. Nor do you dream.
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209. In time, you will remember,
just as the ember soul remembers you.
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210. The ember soul.
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211. Reborn in you.
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212. We are he who was.
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213. You are he who is.
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214. A vessel dies, a vessel is chosen.
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215. Even now, your true nature emerges
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216. to repair the form
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217. you call "self."
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218. The ember soul.
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219. Lifetimes ago, we hid the ember soul
inside a form like yours
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220. to deceive the demon Terrorblade.
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221. The form carried us to the Eye.
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222. The princess.
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223. That's the princess.
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224. Part of us. A part of you.
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225. You feel the truth of it.
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226. I... I can feel it.
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227. And the princess...
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228. Everything she said...
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229. I need to see her. Talk to her.
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230. A futile gesture.
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231. The moon will crumble
and destroy this world.
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232. New death and rebirth are upon us all.
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233. Wait. What are you talking about?
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234. Get the hells off him!
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235. Stay back.
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236. Stay back!
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237. - What? Where is he?
- [Davion/Slyrak] Bram.
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238. - What have you done with Davion?
- [Davion/Slyrak] Bram.
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239. It's me.
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240. Help me kill these fucking things
before they kill anyone else.
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241. Our brothers.
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242. They just...
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243. They tore each other apart.
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244. And you.
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245. Whatever changed all those people,
did it change you too?
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246. [Davion/Slyrak] No.
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247. It was something you'll like even less.
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248. I never stopped to think,
to step outside myself,
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249. to see this... this world as it truly is.
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250. I was so hells-bent on reshaping it
to suit me and...
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251. Gods. Terrorblade. The Invoker.
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252. How am I so different?
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253. I owe you more.
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254. I owe you better.
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255. And you will have it, I swear.
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256. Forgive me, Highness.
I have orders from Regent Shabarra.
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257. Your father needs you most right now.
You're to stay by his side.
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258. My uncle doesn't have the authority
to give you that order.
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259. Shabarra says you're mad.
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260. He says exposure to that red rock
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261. and the Oracle whispering in your ear
have changed you.
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262. And the Legati agree.
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263. Your uncle thinks the Senate will, too.
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264. And you? Do you agree?
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265. Don't fight this.
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266. He will use it against you.
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267. He'll make things worse for you.
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268. You are captain of the Praetorian Guard.
The Guard serves our family.
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269. If you follow the Regent's order,
it can only be because you agree.
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270. You entered the Oracle's temple one person
and came out another, speaking nonsense.
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271. You— You disappeared without explanation.
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272. I— I had to hunt across hundreds of spans
of hostile territory to bring you home.
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273. What do you want from me?
You have my loyalty.
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274. And my worry.
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275. I know my behavior seems erratic.
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276. I won't even try to explain,
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277. other than to say the Oracle presented me
with a choice.
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278. And more and more,
I realize I choose badly.
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279. It doesn't need
to be a perfect world.
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280. But I am no one's prisoner.
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281. Princess, if I support you, you must stay.
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282. And you have to lead.
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283. Summon what remains of the Guard.
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284. Make way, you sorry bastards!
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285. Princess?
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286. Give me a reason.
It doesn't even have to be good.
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287. On your knees.
Beg for my forgiveness.
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288. Beg my father's forgiveness
and pray he hears you.
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289. Pray it's enough.
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290. You have two choices.
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291. The first is to take the knee.
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292. So much for not coming down
off the throne.
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293. What would your mother say?
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294. She'd say I finally understand
what she meant.
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295. If I am to become a god,
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296. I must act like a god.
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297. Guess what sort of a god I am today?
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298. All of you lot, stand down!
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299. They won't stand down.
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300. They'll fight.
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301. These soldiers belong to me.
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302. Perhaps they do, but she doesn't.
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303. Down, boys.
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304. Welcome back.
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305. You've been busy.
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306. Busier than I expected.
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307. You left the front.
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308. You accepted the offer of parley
on your own.
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309. Someone told me I'm capable
of more than just destruction.
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310. Did I wrong you in another dream?
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311. Quite the opposite.
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312. Highness?
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313. Five years to the day.
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314. Sherzi?
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315. I hear you.
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316. I hear you singing.
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317. Father!
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318. Father.
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319. Father, I'm with you.
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320. It...
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321. It's all right.
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322. Mirana.
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323. Your mother is here.
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324. Can't you hear her?
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325. She sings for both of us.
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326. Goddess, I thought it fitting
to come to you here.
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327. Somehow, this feels closer to you
than the Woods.
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328. I have spent a thousand years
defying death,
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329. pretending to be the master
of cosmic forces that shape our world.
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330. It feels empty now.
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331. More like,
a little girl's wishes than magic.
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332. I'm a fool.
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333. You feel powerless.
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334. Responsible.
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335. My father has done monstrous things.
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336. He did them out of love,
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337. but that makes them no less monstrous
or less in my name.
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338. And you would undo these things.
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339. I was like you.
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340. I thought I could fix the world
and make it look how I wanted.
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341. It doesn't work that way.
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342. I can't tell you what to do
or how to feel.
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343. But I can listen.
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344. I can ask the one question that matters.
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345. What can you live with?
What weight can your conscience bear?
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346. Wow, so... So you...
You're... You're an Eldwyrm?
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347. I'm something. It's complicated.
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348. The princess. We have to find her.
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349. I have to find her. I need to see her.
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350. Whoa, whoa, wait.
The— The crazy one from the bar?
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351. She'll know what to do. She always does.
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352. - Do about what? Davion.
- All of it.
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353. You wanna go to the Helio Imperium.
On foot. From Haupstadt.
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354. Hey, you're a dragon. Dragons can fly.
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355. What if you became a dragon
for just a tiny little bit, and...
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356. Yeah. He... hasn't eaten in 20 years.
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357. Oh, yeah, right. Bad idea.
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358. Come, little mouse.
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359. Hey, watch who you're calling a mouse.
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360. Dragon or no dragon,
I will lay you out.
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