Marco Polo2014

Jia Sidao:
You ask for parley as you stand with an army outside my city walls. How am I to take this?

Kublai Khan:
On bended knee, if you're wise.

Jia Sidao:
I have a wall.

Kublai Khan:
I will obliterate your wall. I will take your fraudulent crown. I will spike your corpse to the gates of my new palace. Or, I will walk through the wall after it is freely opened, accept your surrender, and offer gracious terms for the deposed Chancellor of Xiangyang, and his rebel army. You have power yet to save your people, Sidao.

Jia Sidao:
[clicks tongue] It's unfortunate that it has come to this. So deep into war that we make attempts on each other's lives, and those most sacred to us. I've heard of your favored wife's beauty. Such luminescence should not be taken from us this way. So repugnant. Even your own Vice Regent is against this war. This tactics.

Jia Sidao:
[rising] When an honest man says nothing, you see his heart. I don't question his loyalty to you, but an absence of words speaks loudly. Perhaps he sees something we do not.

Jia Sidao:
[threateningly] I trust I'll find you on the field, Jia Sidao.