Krull

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.

Turold:
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.

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.

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:
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. Except 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?

Lyssa Widow of the Web:
I give it to the girl who bears my name.

Prince Colwyn:
The slayers.

Turold:
Arm yourselves.

Princess Lyssa:
We'll fight together.

Prince Colwyn:
No. Is there a safe way out of the castle?

Eirig:
An underground passage.

Eirig:
Go!

Princess Lyssa:
My place is with you.

Prince Colwyn:
Do you love me?

Princess Lyssa:
Of course I love you.

Prince Colwyn:
Then go.

Princess Lyssa:
Colwyn, hurry back to me.

Princess Lyssa:
I've chosen well.

Prince Colwyn:
So have I.

Prince Colwyn:
Lyssa!

Ynyr:
She's alive.

Prince Colwyn:
Where?

Ynyr:
Stay still.

Prince Colwyn:
Where?

Ynyr:
For now, beyond your reach.

Ynyr:
I came to find a king, and I find a boy instead.

Prince Colwyn:
Lyssa?

Ynyr:
They will hold her in the Black Fortress.

Prince Colwyn:
Can you lead me to it?

Ynyr:
You must have help.

Prince Colwyn:
I'll find men on the way.

Ergo:
Where are my papers? Blast, I must really get organized one of these days.

Ynyr:
Well, I too was young once. I too loved as you do. But your love will be luckier than mine. What I told you was that I knew how to find the fortress and that is by seeking the vision of the blind emerald seer.

Prince Colwyn:
But his place isn't known either.

Ynyr:
It is known to me. It is a day's journey from here. Come.

Prince Colwyn:
Who are you?

Ynyr:
I am Ynyr.

Prince Colwyn:
The old one?

Ynyr:
Well, not as old as all that.

Prince Colwyn:
You've come down from the Granite Mountains?

Ynyr:
Yes. I'm needed now.

Torquil:
I don't kill men without good reason.

Prince Colwyn:
Nor do I. And be thankful for it.

Torquil:
Silence! You're surrounded by a hundred men.

Prince Colwyn:
A hundred is not enough.

Torquil:
Well what have we here? A fighter?

Prince Colwyn:
Besides you're short by about ninety men.

Ergo:
Got any sugarballs?

Titch:
No.

Ergo:
Gumdrops?

Titch:
No.

Ergo:
What kind of boy are you? Boys always have candy.

Ergo:
Rell, I'll ride with you.

Rell the Cyclops:
I have to stay here, my friend.

Ergo:
We had no time.

Prince Colwyn:
You've been with us for a long way now.

Rell the Cyclops:
Since the beginning. When I learned that the old one had come down, I knew that the time had come.

Prince Colwyn:
Join us then. All men need company.

Rell the Cyclops:
Yes, all men.

Ergo:
You are his queen?

Princess Lyssa:
Yes.

Ergo:
Then we've won.

Princess Lyssa:
Yes.

Ergo:
Oh boy, I should have stuck to puppies.

Prince Colwyn:
Would you follow a king to the black fortress?

Torquil:
Now I know you're a lunatic. I wouldn't follow me own father to the black fortress.

Titch:
We're in sight of the trees, brother.

Seer:
He who seeks the knowledge must lead me. No one else may approach.

Kegan:
Well.

Merith:
Well what?

Kegan:
Who's the girl now?

Merith:
Her village burned down, she had nowhere to go do I took her in.

Merith:
Look at her again and I'll throw her out.

Kegan:
Merrith, oh my sweet, she doesn't hold a candle to you. She's not even pretty.

Merith:
Yeah.

Kegan:
Now look petal, faithful is my middle name.

Velta:
You must eat something.

Prince Colwyn:
I'm not hungry.

Velta:
Please. For me?

Prince Colwyn:
Thank you.

Velta:
Let me comfort you.

Prince Colwyn:
I can't accept comfort when she has none.

Velta:
You'll not then?

Prince Colwyn:
I cannot.

Velta:
My master says make him betray her. If not, then kill him. Yes, he is my master. These talons were a heartbeat away from your throat. I could've killed you in an instant... but in the hour that I knew you, I loved you.

Prince Colwyn:
Now we have no way to find the fortress.

Ynyr:
There is one who might help.

Prince Colwyn:
Who?

Ynyr:
The Widow of the Web.

Torquil:
That creature helps no one. For none who go there return.

Ynyr:
She has great powers.

Torquil:
Yeah, to kill.

Ynyr:
She may not kill me. For I know her name.

Torquil:
Her name is death.

Ynyr:
She had another name once. An ancient and powerful name.

Ynyr:
We all risk our lives on this journey. My risk is no greater than yours. I must try.

Ynyr:
Do not use it until you need it.

Prince Colwyn:
How will I know when?

Ynyr:
You'll know.

Ynyr:
I seek the widow.

Lyssa Widow of the Web:
Enter here, and die.