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Tao: This silence is disturbing. Eirons don’t like silence. We like to keep in touch.
Dar: You mean you just like to talk.
Tao: Dar, this is serious. If the Eirons want to drive the blood priests out of Xinca, we each need to know what the other is doing. And I heard of a new leader who is planning an attack against the brotherhood and now nothing...
Dar: Perhaps he doesn’t want to risk giving away his plans.
Tao: Well, he can’t do this by himself. He needs the help of Eirons like me.
Dar: If he truly is a leader, don’t you think he’d be wise enough to know that?
Kim: Let her go!
Maloc: Wait! It’s not every day I meet someone who speaks openly, someone who doesn’t know enough to be afraid. Are there others like you?
Kim: More than you can imagine.
Maloc: Really? And where are they? IN the market place? In the mountains? Don’t try my patience.
Kim: I’m ready to try more than that.
Tao: Nothing. There’s always messages here. Something is definitely wrong.
Dar: You’re right. Listen. There’s no birds. There’s no animals in the trees.
Tao: Dar, you know I'm talking about the message drop?
Dar: Yeah, I know. Something’s frightened or driven them away.
Tao: So now you’re telling me the animals have disappeared, too?
Dar: Yeah.
Tao: What is it?
Dar: It’s Maloc and the Brotherhood. Someone’s challenging them for power.
Tao: Who? Let’s find out.
Dar: No! Stay here. It’s too dangerous for you in Xinca.
Tao: Dar, this is my fight.
Dar: Well, let’s not lose you in the first battle.
Maloc: I’ve never seen you before. What makes this your fight? Are you an Eiron?
Kim: What I am doesn’t matter. What matters is your reign of terror is about to end.
People of Xinca, there are brave men among you who’d fight this evil. Our time is here. Our time is now!
Dar: Get out of here!
Kim: No! This is my fight!
Dar: And you’ll lose it if you don't go now!
Dar: Tao, no! It’s over! We’re leaving!
Tao: No!
Dar: We’re going!
Tao: No!
Dar: We’re going!
Tao: Where’s the one who challenged Maloc?
Dar: They’re gone just like us. Now move!
Tao: When I saw Maloc, all I felt was anger. It’s known my family have a quick temper. I thought I had it under control.
Dar: Tao, you can’t fight your enemy in anger no matter how just your cause. You have to defeat them, not become like them.
Tao: I know. It just looks so easy. When you finish them off, the problem’s gone.
Dar: If it was, anyone could do it. Evil can’t be defeated with hatred or revenge.
Tao: This road looks like it could last forever.
Dar: This is what’s driven the animals away.
Tao: What’s wrong with that possum?
Dar: He says that the animals here are no longer safe because the people who use this road are hunting them for food and cutting down their homes for firewood.
Tao: Dar, the road isn’t that big.
Dar: It’s in the wrong place.
Dar: This road is causing trouble.
Nord: Trouble for who?
Dar: The animals that live here.
Nord: You’re that Beastmaster, aren’t you?
Dar: Yes.
Nord: King Voden told me about you. He doesn’t like you much. Now get out of here.
Dar: This is Voden’s idea?
Nord: Isn’t everything?
Maloc: If there’s a rebellion, we will smother the fire before it begins. Bring him to me alive.
Dar: Where’s Voden?
Arina: Doing what he does best: conquering a little more for the world.
Dar: And he put you in charge of the road.
Arina: Among other things. Why?
Dar: It’s in the wrong place. Put it somewhere else.
Arina: That’s a little difficult. It’s part of his new vision.
Dar: What vision?
Arina: He’s building many roads extending to the four corners of the world, and then more roads in between connecting like a spider web. All roads lead to Xinca.
Dar: This’ll change the face of the world.
Arina: Yes. The world is changing, Dar. Like it or not, men like Voden help shape its destiny. You have to learn to live with it like the rest of us.
Dar: These roads are different...
...and they will destroy everything in their path.
Arina: A lot of things men build do that.
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