- 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: 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: Wait! Wait for me. I've just remembered, I have urgent business in this direction.
- Prince Colwyn: What business?
- Ergo: Staying alive.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- [they shake hands]
- Torquil: [Colwyn gives the king's key to Torquil to rid himself of his manacles] I thought I might keep them as a momento of our journey.
- Prince Colwyn: Well, the key is yours.
- Torquil: Only the king and his Lord Marshall carry this key!
- Prince Colwyn: Right.
- [Torquil laughs realizing he's just been appointed Lord Marshall]
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- Lyssa Widow of the Web: I give it to the girl who bears my name.
- Ynyr: [Seeing the Widow of the Web as the Lyssa he remembers] How could I have left you?
- Lyssa Widow of the Web: Your vision is your gift to me.
- Ynyr: [Kneeling beside her] And your vision can be your gift to me.
- Ynyr: [Last lines. Voiceover, reciting a prophecy] A girl of ancient name shall become queen. And she shall choose a king. Together they will rule the world. And their son will rule the galaxy.
- Ynyr: [out of patience with Colwyn's attitude] There are kingly virtues other than bravery! COURTESY is one of them!
- [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.
- 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: 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: Rell, I'll ride with you.
- Rell the Cyclops: I have to stay here, my friend.
- [they shake hands]
- Ergo: We had no time.
- 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.
- 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.
- [Kegan stares at the girl]
- 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.
- Ynyr: Lyssa? Lyssa?
- Lyssa Widow of the Web: Who speaks that name?
- Ynyr: It is I, Ynyr.
- Lyssa Widow of the Web: [Lyssa turns her hourglass upsidedown] I give you this time.
- [Colwyn and Lyssa meet for the first time]
- Princess Lyssa: I've chosen well.
- Prince Colwyn: So have I.
- [Ynyr has fixed Colwyn's wounds and starts to leave]
- 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.
- 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.
- [Torquil has a look of disbelief and this gets Ynyr mad]
- Ynyr: We all risk our lives on this journey. My risk is no greater than yours. I must try.
- Rell the Cyclops: I must remain here.
- Prince Colwyn: Is it time?
- Prince Colwyn: [Rell nodds] You've done enough Rell. Stay here.
- Rell the Cyclops: [they shake hands] Each to his fate.
- Prince Colwyn: Each to his fate.
- 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.
- 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.
- [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.
- [Slayers are attacking the castle]
- 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.
- [Lyssa hugs her father]
- Eirig: Go!
- [Colwyn and Lyssa are trying to escape from the slayers]
- Princess Lyssa: My place is with you.
- Prince Colwyn: Do you love me?
- Princess Lyssa: Of course I love you.
- Prince Colwyn: Then go.
- [they kiss]
- Princess Lyssa: Colwyn, hurry back to me.
- Prince Colwyn: Lyssa!
- Ynyr: She's alive.
- Prince Colwyn: Where?
- Ynyr: Stay still.
- Prince Colwyn: Where?
- Ynyr: For now, beyond your reach.
- 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.
- 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.
- Velta: You must eat something.
- Prince Colwyn: I'm not hungry.
- Velta: Please. For me?
- [Colwyn accepts]
- 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 blinks her eyes and reveals that she's a changling]
- 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.
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