1. I have been looking for you.Copy !req
2. Announce yourselves and the village lives.Copy !req
3. The witches have escaped.Copy !req
4. A message from Jerlamarel.Copy !req
5. It is a message for eyes.Copy !req
6. "My dear children,Copy !req
7. the river is the first step
of your long journey back to me."Copy !req
8. I'm missing something.Copy !req
9. Something very important to me.
We have to get it back.Copy !req
10. I think I know who took our things.
Look.Copy !req
11. There are new whispers about you.Copy !req
12. Who whispers? Lady An? Lord Dune?Copy !req
13. Her death must involve no struggle.Copy !req
14. No evidence of human hand.Copy !req
15. I've decided I won't die for this city.
This city will die for me.Copy !req
16. Jerlamarel,
you did not come for me.Copy !req
17. So I am coming to you.Copy !req
18. Chet-chet!Copy !req
19. Chet-chet-chet!Copy !req
20. There you are.Copy !req
21. Look what happened.Copy !req
22. Look what I did.Copy !req
23. Your story is over now.Copy !req
24. All of you... I ended it.Copy !req
25. But mine is just beginning.Copy !req
26. Goodbye, Father.Copy !req
27. I always loved you...
even if you never did me.Copy !req
28. Please, my queen.Copy !req
29. God has abandoned us!Copy !req
30. We are Payan. We are holy. We are chosen—Copy !req
31. Come on, boy.Copy !req
32. Okay. Good boy.Copy !req
33. The beast has slept for too long.Copy !req
34. And now it is awake.Copy !req
35. Everything is ahead of us...Copy !req
36. everything that matters.Copy !req
37. Thank you.Copy !req
38. What have I done?Copy !req
39. You gave me some time alone.Copy !req
40. Resisted the urge to push for answers
you know I can't give.Copy !req
41. What could be so important about
some trinkets your father gave youCopy !req
42. that you would risk your children's lives,
your husband's life...Copy !req
43. just to retrieve it?Copy !req
44. I'm sure if there were more to that story
than you've already divulged,Copy !req
45. you would've told them
before you would tell me.Copy !req
46. I will say, though...Copy !req
47. there is a different question...Copy !req
48. I have spent the last little while...Copy !req
49. unable to silence in my mind.Copy !req
50. What question is that?Copy !req
51. The day you arrived in our lives...Copy !req
52. do you remember the last thing
Jerlamarel said to me as he left?Copy !req
53. I don't.Copy !req
54. He said, "Be careful."Copy !req
55. In that moment, and in every moment since,Copy !req
56. I assumed he meant...Copy !req
57. "Be careful with this woman I love,
with the children she's soon to bear."Copy !req
58. His words have been like a rock to me...Copy !req
59. something solid to hang on to
all these years.Copy !req
60. But with all that has changed
since we left the waterfallCopy !req
61. and set off up this river...Copy !req
62. I wonder if I misunderstood what he meant.Copy !req
63. What else could he have meant?Copy !req
64. Now your husband and children,Copy !req
65. they have walked unarmed into
grave danger because you said so.Copy !req
66. They hardly hesitated.Copy !req
67. Nor did you.Copy !req
68. I feel something growing in you
since we started upriver on this journey.Copy !req
69. Something in your voice,
in your way, Maghra.Copy !req
70. Something formidable.Copy !req
71. Something dark.Copy !req
72. I am the same person you've known
for almost a lifetime.Copy !req
73. I understand your confusion,
and I tolerate your curiosity.Copy !req
74. But please do not suggest that my husband
or my children are in grave dangerCopy !req
75. because of my sinister motives.Copy !req
76. Or that I am indifferent to their welfare.Copy !req
77. Hold my hand.Copy !req
78. Pray with me...Copy !req
79. that they'll all come back
safe and unharmed.Copy !req
80. These might be tracks here.Copy !req
81. Where?Copy !req
82. This is ridiculous.Copy !req
83. What do you hear?Copy !req
84. Nothing.Copy !req
85. I hear humming.Copy !req
86. Yes.Copy !req
87. A bunch of people, and they're humming.Copy !req
88. Coming from that way.Copy !req
89. Humming? Who's humming?Copy !req
90. Humming.Copy !req
91. What is this?Copy !req
92. Opayol. Scavengers.Copy !req
93. There's no one down there.
It looks deserted.Copy !req
94. It isn't.Copy !req
95. They're about by night,
and they sleep by day.Copy !req
96. They're the ones who took our things.Copy !req
97. They're most definitely down there.Copy !req
98. What I can't say is how many men.Copy !req
99. I'm guessing there's a lot more of them
than there are of us.Copy !req
100. - Easily.
- We're not turning back.Copy !req
101. I'm also guessing
they're a lot less unarmed than we are.Copy !req
102. Whatever the significance
of your mother's possessions,Copy !req
103. I am certain she would not want
either of you dead over it.Copy !req
104. Me too.Copy !req
105. But I can get in and out of there
without them even knowing I was there.Copy !req
106. No one's going anywhere alone.Copy !req
107. I have to go alone.Copy !req
108. I'm least likely to get caught that way.Copy !req
109. I can slip in and out.Copy !req
110. You said so yourself,
they're probably asleep.Copy !req
111. But if you wake one of 'em,
the other ones will come out quickly.Copy !req
112. Then I'll avoid them.Copy !req
113. Mama knew how difficult
it would be to find this,Copy !req
114. and she's asked us anyway.Copy !req
115. Are we saying that we don't trust her
to understand what that means?Copy !req
116. Are we saying we think she's incapable
of making that kind of decision?Copy !req
117. Okay.Copy !req
118. Okay.Copy !req
119. You're both right here.Copy !req
120. I'll call out if I need help.Copy !req
121. But I have to try.Copy !req
122. This is a terrible idea.Copy !req
123. No, we should've stopped her.Copy !req
124. How?Copy !req
125. She would've done this for any one of us.Copy !req
126. She would not have been stopped
by any one of us.Copy !req
127. Honestly, I don't think this
has anything to do with us.Copy !req
128. I think the moment that Mom
mentioned her father,Copy !req
129. her connection to him,Copy !req
130. Haniwa's decision was made.Copy !req
131. You know, there wasn't even a decision
to be made. It was unavoidable.Copy !req
132. The idea of an absent father,Copy !req
133. the chance to reconnect,Copy !req
134. it was just...Copy !req
135. It was too much for her.Copy !req
136. And I'm just afraid that
there's not gonna be—Copy !req
137. Oh, no.Copy !req
138. Haniwa!Copy !req
139. Haniwa!Copy !req
140. Haniwa. Haniwa.Copy !req
141. - Is she still breathing?
- Yeah.Copy !req
142. - Where's she hurt?
- I can't see.Copy !req
143. Dad!Copy !req
144. Wait. No. Wait. No, no!Copy !req
145. No. Stop. Stop! You don't know who he is!Copy !req
146. I don't care who he is!Copy !req
147. His chest.Copy !req
148. Look. Feel. Feel.Copy !req
149. Get up. Get up.Copy !req
150. He can see.Copy !req
151. So empty here.Copy !req
152. I was born into the sound
of the engines...Copy !req
153. thunder, power...Copy !req
154. meaning.Copy !req
155. I spent my entire life bathed in it.Copy !req
156. Never ventured far enough from the capital
that I couldn't hear it.Copy !req
157. I always wondered what the world would
sound like if I'd ventured a little...Copy !req
158. further.Copy !req
159. Turns out, sounds like nothing at all.Copy !req
160. How unbelievably boring.Copy !req
161. Listen to the water, my queen.Copy !req
162. And the wind.Copy !req
163. And perhaps if you listen,
it might whisper its secrets to you.Copy !req
164. There are no secrets here.Copy !req
165. No information being bargained.Copy !req
166. No stories being woven.Copy !req
167. No strength, no fear.Copy !req
168. Nothing.Copy !req
169. Is this really how people
go about their lives...Copy !req
170. in the absence of anything
of any importance?Copy !req
171. I suppose so, Your Majesty.Copy !req
172. This journey may require it,Copy !req
173. but I don't think I'll be very good
at being that person.Copy !req
174. I don't believe there's even the smallest
part of me that is built for it.Copy !req
175. I'm hungry.Copy !req
176. I'm hungry!Copy !req
177. I'm ready to take my dinner.Copy !req
178. Did you find eggs? 'Tis the season.Copy !req
179. Driver?Copy !req
180. I hear the fire dying. Did you find food?Copy !req
181. Driver, where are you?Copy !req
182. Save the fire.
It's choking on its own smoke.Copy !req
183. Driver?Copy !req
184. Driver? Fucking answer me.Copy !req
185. Nyrie!Copy !req
186. Nyrie!Copy !req
187. Nyrie.Copy !req
188. Nyrie!Copy !req
189. I have whatever you want.Copy !req
190. I have whatever you want.
I have rings. I have God bone.Copy !req
191. So soft.Copy !req
192. Exquisite fingers.Copy !req
193. No rings.Copy !req
194. No God bone.Copy !req
195. We take you.Copy !req
196. Nyrie?Copy !req
197. Nyrie!Copy !req
198. Mama, it's us.Copy !req
199. Haniwa.Copy !req
200. Come.Copy !req
201. Did you find it?Copy !req
202. Thank you.Copy !req
203. I count four.Copy !req
204. Who is our new friend?Copy !req
205. They call him Boots.Copy !req
206. Raccoon hides.Copy !req
207. This is the creature who took our things.Copy !req
208. Yes.Copy !req
209. But he didn't know who we were,
and he didn't have a choice.Copy !req
210. Let me explain, please.Copy !req
211. All right.Copy !req
212. When Jerlamarel left us,Copy !req
213. left us to go to the House of
Enlightenment as he promised...Copy !req
214. it seems he didn't go there directly.Copy !req
215. He made a stop for the winter.Copy !req
216. He approached the Opayol.Copy !req
217. He lived among them for a year.Copy !req
218. A year?Copy !req
219. But... once his child was born...Copy !req
220. he resumed his journey.Copy !req
221. Boots is that child.Copy !req
222. Boots is Jerlamarel's son.Copy !req
223. Our brother.Copy !req
224. After Jerlamarel continued his journey...Copy !req
225. the Opayol treated Boots like a slave.Copy !req
226. Forced him to scavenge and steal for them.Copy !req
227. Once word came that the Witchfinder
was campaigning through this area,Copy !req
228. the Opayol left to seek safety elsewhere.Copy !req
229. And they abandoned him here
to fend for himself.Copy !req
230. Child! Child!Copy !req
231. Are you suggesting
we bring him along with us?Copy !req
232. Yes.Copy !req
233. Aside from offering him a way out
of being treated like an animal...Copy !req
234. aside from him being an asset to us,
a skilled fighter...Copy !req
235. He can see.Copy !req
236. Can't he?Copy !req
237. Yes, he can see.Copy !req
238. You two, you are in agreement?Copy !req
239. Why is everyone being like this?Copy !req
240. He is family.
We're not leaving him behind.Copy !req
241. I've asked all the same questions
you have.Copy !req
242. I have expressed the same concerns.Copy !req
243. And?Copy !req
244. And if I was gonna forbid this
from happening, Paris,Copy !req
245. I imagine you would have
heard me do it by now.Copy !req
246. Don't you?Copy !req
247. What else do you know about him?Copy !req
248. Aside from his skill as a thief.Copy !req
249. Do you trust him?Copy !req
250. I have never had anyone to look after me
as you do for each other.Copy !req
251. To be a part of that,Copy !req
252. I will do whatever it is you ask of me.Copy !req
253. Then let him come.Copy !req
254. Let us begin to build for ourselves
an army of the sighted...Copy !req
255. so long as its newest recruits are willing
to swear their allegianceCopy !req
256. to the only general we have amongst us.Copy !req
257. I swear it.Copy !req
258. No. Show us.Copy !req
259. Such a perfect day.Copy !req
260. Your total silence I find far more
interesting than her total silence.Copy !req
261. You know, I will be there
when they slit your throats,Copy !req
262. reminding you what a fucking mistake
you made today.Copy !req
263. Too many times separating from you...Copy !req
264. and worrying it'll be our last.Copy !req
265. Let's never do it again.Copy !req
266. I never told you much about him...Copy !req
267. about my father.Copy !req
268. I never asked you to.Copy !req
269. It's never mattered to me
where you come from.Copy !req
270. I know. Nor I you.Copy !req
271. He gave this to me the day he died.Copy !req
272. Been in his family for as long
as he could remember.Copy !req
273. Open it.Copy !req
274. All of that for this.Copy !req
275. Must've loved him very much.Copy !req
276. He was a very good man.Copy !req
277. Kind, wise.Copy !req
278. I think he would've liked you.Copy !req
279. Let's not get carried away.Copy !req
280. I wish I'd known him.Copy !req
281. Perhaps you can tell me
more about him sometime.Copy !req
282. I think I'd like that.Copy !req
283. Kofun is right.Copy !req
284. I should get moving.Copy !req
285. Of course.Copy !req
286. That boy, Boots...Copy !req
287. you don't trust him, do you?Copy !req
288. I haven't planned on trusting anyone new
for a while.Copy !req
289. I see.Copy !req
290. Then why did you choose to allow it?Copy !req
291. I'm flattered you thought I have
any choice in the matter.Copy !req
292. I'm being serious.Copy !req
293. - I know.
- Why didn't you forbid it?Copy !req
294. 'Cause at the end of this journey...Copy !req
295. they will meet a new father.Copy !req
296. And I can't give them any new reason
to want one.Copy !req
297. Kofun understands our choices.Copy !req
298. He always has.Copy !req
299. Doesn't take them personally.Copy !req
300. But her...Copy !req
301. I don't wanna lose her.Copy !req
302. You won't.Copy !req
303. Yes.Copy !req
304. Love you.Copy !req
305. They don't like me, do they?Copy !req
306. They're scared...Copy !req
307. and confused.Copy !req
308. But they're good people.
They'll come around.Copy !req
309. Do they like you?Copy !req
310. What did you say?Copy !req
311. They yell at you.Copy !req
312. They question you, make you feel small.Copy !req
313. That is how my people always treated me.Copy !req
314. Why did they make you wear the mask?Copy !req
315. They said I was not like them.Copy !req
316. Not a man, but something else.Copy !req
317. They said the mask would remind me.Copy !req
318. My family loves me.Copy !req
319. They don't always understand.Copy !req
320. But I have never doubted
for one moment that they love me.Copy !req
321. How you've been treated, it was wrong.Copy !req
322. You deserve better than that.Copy !req
323. But I promise...Copy !req
324. you're one of us now.Copy !req
325. You'll never be treated that way again.Copy !req
326. Your mother.Copy !req
327. Do you think she will have room
to love another childCopy !req
328. as she already loves you and your brother?Copy !req
329. That may take some time.Copy !req
330. This is complicated for her.Copy !req
331. But...Copy !req
332. my mother has the biggest heart
of anyone I've ever met.Copy !req
333. She does what's right.Copy !req
334. She always does what's right.Copy !req
335. - Why did you keep your secret for so long?
- How do you do that?Copy !req
336. Do what?Copy !req
337. Sneak up on people who can see you
sneaking up on people.Copy !req
338. I wasn't trying to be sneaky.
Maybe you just weren't paying attention.Copy !req
339. Will you answer my question?Copy !req
340. What are you talking about?Copy !req
341. What secret?Copy !req
342. You kept it for so long,
you don't even know it's a secret anymore.Copy !req
343. Why did no one in the Alkenny know...Copy !req
344. that you could see?Copy !req
345. Well, given how everyone else reacted
when the Witchfinder turned up,Copy !req
346. I think my parents were probably wiseCopy !req
347. to not trust them
with that piece of information.Copy !req
348. Baba and Maghra were stuck in the Alkenny.Copy !req
349. And I guess they kept a secret
to protect you two.Copy !req
350. Something like that, yes.Copy !req
351. Can I tell you what it's like
to observe peopleCopy !req
352. that don't know that
you're observing them?Copy !req
353. They are completely vulnerable to you.Copy !req
354. You could keep their secrets.Copy !req
355. You could spread them to their enemies.Copy !req
356. You could strike at them...Copy !req
357. without them ever knowing who did it,Copy !req
358. or how, or why.Copy !req
359. You could change their life.Copy !req
360. Could end their life...Copy !req
361. for any reason...Copy !req
362. or no reason at all.Copy !req
363. That is what gods do.Copy !req
364. You might not know what this feels likeCopy !req
365. because you never made the choice
to hold that power over others.Copy !req
366. It was made for you by your parents.Copy !req
367. But I know.Copy !req
368. And I suspect Jerlamarel knew, too.Copy !req
369. For me,
it brought me closer to those I shadowed.Copy !req
370. For Jerlamarel...Copy !req
371. he fathered a child among them
and abandoned him.Copy !req
372. So, what does any of this
have to do with you, anyway?Copy !req
373. Maybe I find it amusing that you can see
and still observe so little.Copy !req
374. Where am I?Copy !req
375. The City of Worms.Copy !req
376. Where am I?Copy !req
377. My friends.Copy !req
378. What have you brought me?Copy !req
379. I have a horse. It needs water.Copy !req
380. And I'm tired. I need to sleep.Copy !req
381. I've ridden all day.Copy !req
382. I need oil for my ass
and a maid to apply it.Copy !req
383. After I've slept, I will speak to you.Copy !req
384. You've made a mistake—Copy !req
385. Exquisite fingers.Copy !req
386. You have done well. Thank you for this.
She will be... perfect.Copy !req
387. A silkworm is a fascinating creature.Copy !req
388. Would you like to know why?Copy !req
389. She begins so small, so innocent,
unassuming.Copy !req
390. But in the course of her very short life,Copy !req
391. she creates a substance of such beauty,
such perfection,Copy !req
392. that the wealthiest men in the world,Copy !req
393. men who could dress themselves,
their wives, their concubines,Copy !req
394. in whatever they desire,Copy !req
395. choose... this.Copy !req
396. And when her life has run its course,
her usefulness expired,Copy !req
397. she spends her final days sadly grotesque.Copy !req
398. A winged creature with the urge to flyCopy !req
399. but denied that ability.Copy !req
400. A husk of herself, used up,Copy !req
401. eager for death.Copy !req
402. You will come to know her well here.Copy !req
403. You will come to understand her.Copy !req
404. My friend, you do not want me in here.Copy !req
405. I haven't met a worm in my life.Copy !req
406. Yeah. Perhaps for a time, it'll amuse you.Copy !req
407. But soon you will regret it!Copy !req
408. Is that so?Copy !req
409. I wonder who you might be
to make such a claim.Copy !req
410. Delicate hands unused to being worked.Copy !req
411. An impudent mouth unused to being struck.Copy !req
412. A woman of wealth...Copy !req
413. accustomed to wielding authority
or the authority of a husband, perhaps.Copy !req
414. But from where?Copy !req
415. The Witchfinder's campaign
brought him through here not long ago.Copy !req
416. When he was asking for information,Copy !req
417. his accent reminded me of the time
I spent in Kanzua,Copy !req
418. selling our goods to the high-born
with money to burn.Copy !req
419. Your accent brings back
those same memories.Copy !req
420. You were a noblewoman, I presume.Copy !req
421. Perhaps even a councilor
to that bitch queen.Copy !req
422. But no matter.Copy !req
423. Here you will be the same as the rest,
or even less so, perhaps,Copy !req
424. as everything must be learned
from the beginning.Copy !req
425. If you work hard for me,
you will live well.Copy !req
426. If you try to escape, you will not
get far, and the consequences will be...Copy !req
427. unpleasant.Copy !req
428. You are an interesting one.Copy !req
429. I look forward to whatever time
we are able to spend together here.Copy !req
430. Hear me...Copy !req
431. Jerlamarel.Copy !req
432. Jerlamarel.Copy !req
433. Kofun?Copy !req
434. Yeah. Here, Dad.Copy !req
435. Is the boat free?Copy !req
436. It's unmoored, but it's stuck.Copy !req
437. What do you mean "stuck"? Stuck where?Copy !req
438. Tide's gone out.Copy !req
439. What are we gonna do?Copy !req
440. We're gonna have to wait till morning.Copy !req
441. Come.Copy !req
442. Run.Copy !req
443. Come.Copy !req
444. Run.Copy !req
445. They can't ride through this, can they?Copy !req
446. They can. But it'll slow them down.Copy !req
447. I hear them.Copy !req
448. - Haniwa.
- Yes.Copy !req
449. Take your mother and Paris
and find shelter for them.Copy !req
450. I love you. Go. Go.Copy !req
451. They're everywhere.Copy !req
452. Dad, I'll stand with you.Copy !req
453. Yes, you will, son.Copy !req
454. Stay here.Copy !req
455. Everything will be all right.Copy !req
456. Maghra?Copy !req
457. Maghra?Copy !req
458. Baba Voss!Copy !req
459. Where's Mama? What happened?Copy !req
460. - She's gone.
- Haniwa!Copy !req
461. - Haniwa.
- No.Copy !req
462. Baba, I had her by the hand.Copy !req
463. They took her?Copy !req
464. No, she let go of my hand.Copy !req
465. She whispered to me.
She said, "Be careful."Copy !req
466. Mama?Copy !req
467. Mama!Copy !req
468. Tamacti Jun!Copy !req
469. Do you hear my voice, Witchfinder?Copy !req
470. Do you hear me?Copy !req
471. Speak.Copy !req
472. Witchfinder...Copy !req
473. can you hear me?Copy !req
474. I hear the voice of a dead woman.Copy !req
475. Then listen closer.Copy !req
476. Take my hand.Copy !req
477. And speak.Copy !req
478. Hail...Copy !req
479. Princess Maghra...Copy !req
480. of the House... of Kane.Copy !req
481. Give homage!Copy !req