仙侣神兵 (1983) 5.9

Prince Colwyn: The forest is not safe. You best travel with us. Ergo: Me travel with you? Do you know who I am? Prince Colwyn: No. Ergo: I am Ergo the magnificent. Short in stature, tall in power, narrow of purpose and wide of vision. And I do not travel with peasants and beggars. Goodbye! Princess Lyssa: Power is fleeting; love is eternal. Princess Lyssa: My father says that good fighters make bad husbands. Prince Colwyn: Well, that depends. Princess Lyssa: On what? Prince Colwyn: On whether you expect a husband to follow you around. Jump every time you clap your hands. Princess Lyssa: Wouldn't you jump for me? No of course not. You're a warrior. Prince Colwyn: The reward is freedom... and fame! Torquil: Freedom? We have it! And fame? Nah. It's an empty purse. Count it, go broke. Eat it, go hungry. Seek it, go mad! Ergo: If I had my wish I'd be out of this gloomy place right away. If I really had my wish I'd be sitting on top of a gooseberry pie as big as a mountain. No, that's a bit greedy. I'll settle for one as big as a house. Titch: I'd wish for a puppy. Ergo: Only one puppy? If you're wishing why not wish for a hundred? Titch: Only want one. Ergo: Well that's a foolish wish. And you Rell, what would you wish for? Rell the Cyclops: Ignorance. Ergo: My name is no jest, beanpole. It's all very well to have a short name when you're twenty feet tall, but small people need large names to give them weight. Rell the Cyclops: Your actions give you weight, my friend. Ergo: There was a difference of opinion concerning a gooseberry pie. The man left it sitting on his windowsill. What did he expect? Prince Colwyn: Perhaps he expected to eat it. Ynyr: There are kingly virtues other than bravery. Courtesy is one of them. Ynyr: We all risk our lives on this journey. My risk is no greater than yours. Turold: From this day, my kingdom is no more. Eirig: Nor mine.

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: A single kingdom under our children. Eirig: Agreed. Eirig: We sent to you for help. Turold: None came. Eirig: Twenty men were dispatched to you. Turold: We lost three hundred getting here. Eirig: I didn't choose this marriage, Turold. Turold: Nor did I Eirig. Prince Colwyn: I chose it. Your daughter chose it. It'll be done. Eirig: Can you lead this army with mine against the slayers? Prince Colwyn: Whatever army I have I'll lead against them. Till I've won, or am dead. Ynyr: The beast has many weapons. This was one of them. A changeling. [Looks at Rell] Ynyr: How did you know? Rell the Cyclops: I found the seer's body in the quicksand. Prince Colwyn: He gave his life for us. Titch: He was my only family. Prince Colwyn: We're your family now. Ergo: He marches us towards a solid face of rock. The man has raisins in his braincase. Ynyr: We three will go on. The rest will remain here. Ergo: We four will go on. I'm not staying behind with these criminals. Seer: The temple is at the center of the swamp where three trees grow as one. Prince Colwyn: How can anything grow in that place? It smells of death. Ynyr: Death and power are close cousins. Torquil: I don't think I like your relatives, old man. [Colwyn and Ergo meet Torquil and his gang for the first time] Ergo: Robbers. Prince Colwyn: They're men. We don't know yet whether they're robbers. Ergo: Faces that ugly could only belong to robbers. Don't worry, I'll turn them all into pigs. [Ynyr leaves to go see The Widow of the Web] Ynyr: From here, I go on alone. Prince Colwyn: I'm going with you. Ynyr: No. If two approach, she would certainly kill both. Alone, I may have a chance. Torquil: Each to his fate, Colwyn. Ynyr: Yes... Yes, each to his fate. Ynyr: I cannot stop the sand. Lyssa Widow of the Web: You cannot stop time. Go now. Save the other Lyssa. Lyssa Widow of the Web: These are the sands of my life. Accept them and the spider will have no power to harm you. But your own life runs out with the sand. Ynyr: But what about your life?

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