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Orpheo

Tao about Ruh: He’s not a happy cat.

Tao: Today is a day of change. Tomorrow’s the beginning of the new season. Today’s sun is as low as it will get in the sky. It is also a day when spirits walk the earth and curses have their greatest power.
Dar: I didn’t think you believed in superstitions.
Tao: I don’t, but they make for great stories. I’ll try and think of one before nightfall.

Dar: What are you doing here?
Arina: Hunting. Like you.
Dar: I don’t hunt.

Tao: Why are you doing this?
Iara: Insurance in case Dar decides he’s got something better to do than catch the panther for me.
Tao: You don’t know him too well, then, do you?
Iara: No, I don’t, but I’d like to.

Iara: Careful. You’re the Beastmaster’s little friend, not mine.

Arina: Who was that woman in the pond?
Dar: Iara. She’s a demon.

Ancient One to Iara: I must admit I expected you a little sooner. Did you get lost?

Ancient One: That wasn’t very nice.
Iara: You asked me to release him. You didn't say anything about where or being nice.

Arina: So that’s how it is. You only get close when the nights cold and the fire’s burning low.
Dar: Actually it was the other way around. Remember?

Tao: Ruh. Am I happy to see you.
[Ruh growls.]
Tao: Yes, yes. I’m following. I'm following. I hope you take me to Dar. Have I got a story to tell him.

Iara: The panther’s not your real enemy. You real enemy is with your friend Arina right now.
Dar: Arina’s in danger?
Iara: You fear for her, meaning you care for her. You choose your friends too quickly, Dar, and you know your enemies too late.

Tao: Then I heard a roar and I thought Iara had sent some new hell after me. So I picked this up to defend myself.
Dar: What is it?
Tao: A thorn of the mountain. My uncle says it has the power to slay evil spirits.
Dar: I thought you said you weren’t superstitious.
Tao: I’m not, but they say bad things happen in threes. Now so far I’ve been trapped under a pond and thrown into a pit of snakes, and on days like today even the most rational man starts grasping at straws, or this.

Orpheo: I’ve never stopped loving you, Arina. Those feelings survive everything, even death.

Orpheo: Is he [Dar] important to you?
Arina: Only because I hunt him.
Orpheo: You found new ways to hunt.

Tao: Great. Now we’re going to help someone we don’t like based on the word of someone who never tells us the truth.

Tao: You know, I've heard stories like this before. Black cats that travel with spirits from the world beneath the world. They’re call familiars.
Dar: A familiar?
Tao: An evil servant from an evil spirit from beyond the grave.
Dar: This isn’t one of you little "Day of Change" evil spirit stories, is it?
Tao: No. Yes.

Iara: But he’s dead already. What more can happen to him?
Ancient One: There are many fates far worse than death. Why even you know that.

Tao: Next time he will kill you.
Dar: Thanks for the vote of confidence.
Tao: Look, I prefer my friends alive, and while you are alive, I don’t know how you can fight someone who’s dead.
Dar: Well, I’ll have to try, won’t I?

Ancient One: I told you there was more to this.
Iara: You could make it happen.
Ancient One: I can’t change fate, my dear.
Iara: Oh, but I thought you could do anything.
Ancient One: Well, I do start things, then I leave it up to the individual. I must say, I rather enjoy the lack of responsibility.

Tao: There is no other choice. Thorn of the mountain.
Dar: I’d rather trust my staff.
Tao: No, Dar, trust this. This is not an animal.

Orpheo: After that final battle, when all I could see were the dead, I knew I couldn’t live without you.
Arina: You took your own life.
Orpheo: I committed the gravest sin to offer up my soul to be with you, but all I got was torment because you were not there.

Orpheo to Arina: I will wait for you.

Arina: He was a good man once, and we truly did love each other.
Dar: I don't think love like that dies even if those who share it do.

Ancient One: Humans aren’t like us in life or death, but sometimes in love there’s a certain grace in the dance. I, myself, take more pride in the art of manipulation and have great respect for those who practice it.

Dar: Can I ask you a question?
Tao: Ask away.
Dar: That story you told me about the thorn of the mountain, was it true?
Tao: Every word.
Dar: Tao, you’re a man of reason and now you tell me you entrust our lives with superstitions?
[Tao nods.]
Dar: You didn’t find it strange that the thorn was real, but it was meant to deal with a creature that never really existed?
Tao: I travel with a man who talks with animals. I’ve seen wizards and demons, and I’ve just come to accept that there are many things between heaven and earth that no man can ever understand.
Dar: You never cease to amaze me.