Mili Avital credited as playing...
Scheherezade
- Sultan Schariar: Look into my eyes. What do you see, Scheherezade?
- Scheherezade: Me. Looking at you, my love.
- Storyteller: Here again, milady?
- Scheherezade: These people sit for hours, just listening.
- Scheherezade: It's a miracle.
- Storyteller: People need stories, more than bread, itself.
- Storyteller: They teach us how to live, and why.
- Sultan Schariar: You saved me. Why did you do it?
- Scheherezade: Because I loved you.
- Sultan Schariar: Is that the real reason?
- Scheherezade: [She smiles] It'll have to do, until...
- [Schariar kisses her]
- Scheherezade: A master storyteller once told me the audience must be hooked in the first moments, otherwise you've lost them.
- Scheherezade: Is this the time for stories?
- Storyteller: It's the perfect time! Stories show us how to win, and in your case: defeat death.
- Scheherezade: He said the world was an inferno full of darkness and evil, and that there were only two ways of dealing with it. The first was easy and wrong: to accept it and become part of it. The second way was harder and right: you fight it, and recognize those who aren't evil, and help them endure.
- Scheherezade: [narrating] The trial of Jerome Gribben was the social event of the season. The judge in the case was the venerable Judge Zadic. Judge Zadic was totally incompetent but being a Judge nobody had noticed.
- Scheherezade: [narrating] Feed a grub royal jelly and he will turn into an Emperor Butterfly in an instant.
- Scheherezade: [narrating] The storyteller always said, "Stories can save us." I guess what he meant was... they can save us! If we use our imagination.
- Sultan Schariar: Is that the end of the story?
- Scheherezade: [hastily] No, no...! At the wedding, there was an important guest...
- [She sees a silhouette of a bowing servant, thinking quickly]
- Scheherezade: ... a hunchback. His name was... Bacbac.
- Scheherezade: [Schariar has drawn a sword and hacked the pillows to shreds around her] Are you all right? Can I do anything for you?
- Sultan Schariar: I just missed *killing* you, and you ask if there's anything you can do for *me*?
- Scheherezade: These people sit for hours - just listening. It's a miracle!
- Storyteller: People need stories more than bread itself. They tell us how to live, and why.