WEBVTT - 3.01 - Tree of Sorrows 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:29.160 M m excercy. They are waiting for you. Will thank 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:36.600 you for coming so late this way. Come into the 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:43.600 cool room, excellency, but do more light. Of course, it 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:48.520 may be nothing, but it may be well. I didn't 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:55.560 want to be the one responsible for for what well, 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:59.200 for not doing my duty to human b Excellency. I 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.880 thought we would want to say, he this go on 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:08.480 a body. Timan Bay has many bodies, not like this one. 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:12.040 It arrived this morning, backed in ice, in a caravan 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:15.400 from al Farsie. It's quite far gone, but you can 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:24.440 see what you have to see this way. Please. Two 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.720 days ago, early in the morning, a soldier. We think 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.480 he was a soldier from his uniform, though as you 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.200 can see there's not much of it left, likely from 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:36.319 one of the border garrison's. He stumbled into the town 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.880 of al Farzi, apparently screaming his head off. We think 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.240 he may have been the last survivor, the last survivor 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.840 of what the border garrison. There had been some skirmishes 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:51.160 with the local tribes or a deserter, not likely, excellency. 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.400 Not with these wounds he walked into al Fasi in 0:01:54.440 --> 0:02:01.160 this state. Apart from his screaming, did he say anything. No, 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:06.040 he couldn't. No tongue you see, or hands or feet. 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:13.440 He must have crawled through the desert. What do you think? 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:17.040 So it didn't happen in battle. Someone took their time 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.040 to do this. They took care of it to ensure 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:23.760 he wouldn't die. You see, the wounds are quarterized. That's 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.480 what I thought. That's why I sent for you, excellency, 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:38.960 turn him over. But m ah, yes, I just wondered 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:45.560 about that. He's been branded. People are comforted by a 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.920 sense of order in this world. The things that surround us, 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:54.040 the walls of the houses, the streets, the people, the empires. 0:02:54.840 --> 0:03:00.360 They give us certainty, a sense of purpose gradually stripped away, 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.720 and you realize you're completely on your own, and everyone 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.800 and everything is different to what you thought. Thank you 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:14.280 report any other strange occurrences to me, of course you're excellent. 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.560 But for now, to Munda is a city trying to 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:21.840 recover from the rule of Maya. Baker's still baked bread, 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:27.079 butcher's still prepare meat, and the young men of Tu Munday, well, 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:31.919 they still fly in the skies above the city. H 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:50.800 Hi broke a party approaching across the desert. There's a banner. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:04:02.400 It looks official. Oh are you all right? Yeah? That 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:08.000 was amazing. My name's frog Frog. What kind of a 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.760 name is that? It used to be my nickname, but 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.720 now it's my name. What do you do? Frog? Do 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:18.320 you croak? Do you eat flies? No? I fly, but 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:23.279 you must have a real name. No, I haven't seen 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.479 you here before. I live in the bull Pass Quarter. 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.360 My father's a merchant, a merchant of what what do 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.279 I care? All he's interested in is making money. But 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:32.920 there has to be more to life than that, don't 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:37.240 you think? Like? What? Well, what you do climbing the 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.679 city walls, jumping off them? Flying? Well it might look easy, 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.359 but you need to know what you're doing. Do you 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:44.640 know what you're doing? Of course I haven't been doing 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:46.760 it for years. Then you can show me, can't you? 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.159 Who is this matilla girl? Like you do with a sky? 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:57.160 Frog watching? So what you see? What you from the sky? 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.920 What did you see? Twenty awsom? At least they had 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:02.880 a flag. I think it's the new prince come to 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:14.120 marry our sultana Inca sir? Why have you stuff? I 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.680 came here once as a child. I thought they had 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.240 burnt it to the ground, but it's still so so. 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.880 I hope the Sultanas as beautiful. Yeah, she's a bit 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:31.360 of a fighter, that's right, sir. She's killed a few 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:34.200 in her client I wouldn't turn my back on her 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.800 if I was you. I'm not till you know her. Well, 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.520 we'll see. Come on, I want to see what's behind 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:53.159 those walls. Humanly Series three, Episode one, Tree of Sorrows 0:05:53.880 --> 0:06:05.919 by John Scott Dryden. Tuman Bay has survived, as it 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:10.200 always does, but it is a city weakened by Maya's 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:16.200 brutal occupation. Everyone is rebuilding. It is a city of builders. 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.960 And in one part of the city, away from the palace, 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.480 at the house of my poor old friend, the slave 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:27.560 trader Ibn Bay, his daughter Heaven, a young woman who 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:33.200 will become part of this mystery, is rebuilding her life. Yes, 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.400 is the lady of the house at all? What is 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:40.119 it concerning? I am a friend of her poor dear father, 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:45.240 Hibn Bay. I felt it my duty to come by 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.800 and see how my dear French's daughter is faring. Now 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:54.000 that dust has settled, so to speak. Please please come in. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:02.159 I'm sorry for the mess mentioned it, my dear man. 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:07.920 Don't mention it we have all suffered. We're all rebuilding 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:13.040 our lives. My wife is with our child. Come out 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.240 into the courtyard, asked them to bring refreshments. But I 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.800 really don't want to trappic. It's no trouble, it's no trouble. 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:28.640 Please please. So are you and my father were close, Yes, 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:34.240 Mrs Heaven, the closest of friends. We were business associates. 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:40.360 I'm also in the trade. Well, poor fellow, I'm so 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.360 sorry for what happened. Thank you. You know your your 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:47.200 father's reputation was like no other. Reputation is everything in 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.720 this business. He was a man of his word. He 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:59.960 was a good man. Your father may have mentioned me, Oh, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:06.400 but how rude of me, band, Melissia Fair Mcpooland but 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.760 everyone knows me as just band. Well, my father really 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.520 talked to me about his business, of course, and yet 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:16.520 even in business he often talked about you, Mr seven. 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:21.280 Everything he did was for you. Yes, well, he loved 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:27.400 his family very much, did he did. Yes. I apologize 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.920 for the state of the house. Not at all, Mistress, 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.160 not at all. They went through all my father's things 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.880 after his arrest. So much was taken and the rest well, 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.520 as you see, such a pity, but at least you 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:44.000 have your husband and child. Yes, we feel very fortunate. 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.160 We lost her. She was taken from us during the occupation. 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.520 We were lucky to find her. Blessings come at the 0:08:51.600 --> 0:09:01.400 most surprising times. Yes, ah, yes, if you will excuse me, 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:07.160 I must know there is something, yes, mistress, before you 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:12.719 go to attend your child. Of course, how can I 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:19.319 bab bring this up at such a no, bab, you 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.439 must you know your your father would have wanted me 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:28.200 to as a man of honor. What is it, mistress? 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:34.040 Even by your father took a consignment of slaves from me, 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:40.199 and well when all this happened, well, he never managed 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:48.520 to pay me for them. I see m hm, media madam. 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.920 If you could please see to Pamina, I will come shortly. 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.960 How much did my father owe you? Let me see 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:09.480 for the head of I think there was eight, yes, fifty, yes, 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:17.560 twelve hundred pinari. Yes, I will of course honor any 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:21.480 depths my father may have had. You have a receipt, 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:27.400 promissory note or such like, Oh you can read, I can, 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:32.760 of course, of course. Well, it was an agreement made 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.960 between friends, and a man's word is his. I'm sure 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.400 I have something I can bring to you to do 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:45.120 to show of course. Good good, thank you for coming. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.920 So so what are your plans now? We're going through 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:54.240 my father's papers, learning all weekend about his business. We 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.760 plan to take it over, what's left of it, and 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.760 try to build it up. Good. Yeah, there's a big 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:05.240 and for slaves at the moment everyone's rebuilding. You can 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:09.040 capitalize on this, That's what I keep telling her. The problem, 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:14.920 of course these days, if you'll forgive me, the problem 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.560 is supply. Have you thought about that? We were lucky 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:20.319 that one of the hubun By ships was at a 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:24.240 foreign port when the occupation happened. That's all. My father 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:28.560 was a shrewd man, he was. Indeed, where is your 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:33.599 father's ship? Where Smyrna? My family is from there. We 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:37.720 have sent word to supplies there, but quality. I'm sorry 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.319 your associates haven't found the quality of slaves you require. 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.000 Am I right? More or less? The occupation has destroyed 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.720 the supply chain. Now the empire is weak, The roots 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.199 aren't safe, and I'm sure any half decent slaves you 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:56.760 are able to acquire are expensive. Yes, we are trying 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.760 to raise funds. M hmm, barban and see who are 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.839 going to make a success of this. Thank you, sir. 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.719 We think so too. Look, I wouldn't normally do this, 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:12.679 but Balvan is going to hold off your father's death. Really, 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.880 that's please. There's no need to thank me. In fact, 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.120 I want to help you. I can see you need help. 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.680 I can show you how the slave business works. Maybe 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:34.000 Bavant can even invest in your endeavors. Tuman Bay is 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:40.319 on its knees. To survive. Alliances are required, Your majesty, 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:45.240 his excellency, Prince Herod, son of the Governor of Rashim Province. 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:57.199 What's going on? The fabled White Ape of the exotic world? 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.720 Captured by my stepfather and one of his many hunting 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:05.360 expeditions to the lands of the Klakara. A strange and 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.800 wonderful creature of great value and a fitting wedding gift 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:18.199 to my beautiful bride. H I see, very strange and wonderful. 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.840 Thank you. The Sultans of human Bay are famed throughout 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:27.360 the world for their menagerie of exotic creatures. I hope 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:29.840 my gift will help return the menagerie back to its 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:36.000 former glory after these times of trouble. Someone please take 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:41.679 my niece Monel, our new Sultana Gregor, head of the 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.439 palace guard. Can you please find someone to feed and 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:48.160 water our our friend here? Of course, am I now 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.880 also to be her official monkey handler. Take the ape 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:56.400 to the menagerie, see to its well being. Yes, so 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.880 you call yourself a prince, that your father is a 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:03.959 provincial governor? Is he now a king? No? No, no, 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.760 it's it's merely what my mother has always called me, 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:15.560 Prince Herod. Yes, huh. To be honest, I'm a little 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:21.400 awe struck by the sight of such perfection. I see well, 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.640 I thank you. I mean the city. I thought it 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.240 had been burnt to the ground by Maya, and yet 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:35.400 and yet it still stands so elegantly, so magnificently. Yes, 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.640 we are rebuilding and doing our best to repair what 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.680 was destroyed by the Zealots. I've heard of your bravery, majesty, 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:45.640 how you slew Maya's regent Sarah in this very room 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.440 in front of me. I had the chance to do 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:53.680 it myself, but I didn't. I couldn't. Was I beguiled 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:59.120 by her? They disappear into the walls. That's what she 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.280 told me before she died. Of course, we could not 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.840 have defeat admire without commander Kulan, who built and led 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:13.200 an army of slaves to storm the city. Father, it 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.880 is an honor. No, please, sir, it is not who 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:21.600 are the greatest commander touman Bay has ever known. I 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.000 have read of your deeds in the histories. I amili 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.320 a servant of tuman Bay, and you will be too 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.600 when you take my daughter's hand in marriage. You will 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.840 never know who the believers are until it's time for 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.680 them to come out again. With you at my side, 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.000 we will make tuman Bay. They might be your neighbor again. 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.640 They might be your friend, majesty, if I may advice, 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.800 They might even be your adviser. I would suggest at 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.560 this point it would be a good idea to ask 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:51.160 Britt to stand now alkin the traveler, now Vizier to 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:55.520 the Sultana, replacing that slimy worm Cardali, a man I 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.880 hated and who hated me. And tuman Bay. They are 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:06.560 of living. Here's the art of surviving. The meeting is over. 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:12.200 It went well, Yes, yes, they seem a good match. 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:16.960 Where are you, Gregor? I'm right here, brother, watching, waiting, 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.120 looking for anything out of the ordinary. Keeping the sultana safe. 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.320 That's my job. And have you seen anything out of 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:29.520 the ordinary apart from a white ape. There are things, 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.520 small things, perhaps things that may point to Maya. I 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:36.400 wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't look into 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:42.520 everything that seems out of place. Maya is defeated. I 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:47.360 found the door to my apartment unlocked this morning. I 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:51.480 always lock it. Maybe you need to take some time off. 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:53.800 There's too much to do. You've been through a lot. 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.640 The palace guard will see rooting out the spies. They 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.040 could be spies. There. Spy is everywhere. They come out 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:06.680 of the walls. You're stuck in the swamp, Gregor. We've 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:11.280 drained the swamp. There are other dangers. Now is weak. 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.480 We need to rebuild. We need alliances. Then you do 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:33.840 your job and let me do mine. He's a fool. 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.480 At least he's a handsome fool. I'm a little awe 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.919 struck by the side of such perfection on our first meeting, 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.600 and he wasn't even talking about me. He will look 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:46.000 good sitting beside you on the throne. So with that monkey. 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:49.800 His mother seriously calls him prince. I'm not going to 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.120 marry a man whose mother calls him. You keep taking 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.679 one step forward and two steps back. Your father is right. 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.560 Why do I need a husband? I already have another? 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:09.520 M hm m hmm. Marriage is for legitimacy. Lovers are 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:14.000 for pleasure. They are two separate things. Your father, I'm 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:18.520 not my father, but I have proved myself. If you 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:20.400 are so keen on him, why don't you go to him? 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:26.520 I know you do well. You are more beautiful and lovely. 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.400 If you have taught me anything, it is to mistrust 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:38.919 honeyed words. All right, try these words. You have no choice. 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.359 It has to be done. You have to play this 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.200 part as I have to play the part of your vizier. 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:49.359 It's all storytelling. We are part of the great story 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:52.960 of two Munday. Maybe you will understand that one day. 0:18:55.200 --> 0:19:01.840 Who are you really? Really? We are who we are here? 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:06.440 And now that's all that concerns us. And you need 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:10.320 to marry this oiled, gnolly cuddled mamma's boy. Yes, you 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:22.600 need to do it, slave. Take this day after day, 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:27.080 hour after hour, I paced the palace corridors looking for signs. 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.639 How is it possible that she conquered an empire and 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:37.800 then simply disappeared like water? Soaking away. There are so 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:42.240 many collaborators out there still finding it's my job to 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:55.720 any progress. All right, it's good to work, sir. You 0:19:55.920 --> 0:20:01.160 say you were just employed in the scriptorium. Yes, excellency, 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:05.240 that's all. But wasn't it your name on the arrestaurants? 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:10.440 Didn't you countersign them? Do you know your name was 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.760 on that order too? You told me to sign it 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:22.200 to the worst collaborator of them all, And yet you, Gregor, 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:26.480 you walk free. Do you feel chap? I look within 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:33.639 myself for that shame for even the tiniest spec But no, 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:38.600 are you still in touch with her? Do you mean Maya? 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.000 How do you contact her? How does she reach you? 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:45.960 I have never even sent eyes on her. All I 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:56.440 did was my job, just like you continue. Yes, no, no, no. 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:06.359 The others are too busy rebuilding. They think it's all over. 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:20.520 Good luck to them. They don't see what I see. Yes, 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:27.640 what are you doing? Oh? I'm sorry, excellency, I didn't 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.200 realize you were here. We had appending the damage to 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:35.840 the walls. We will come back later. You are the supervisor, yes, excellency, 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:40.520 Selim pash out of the middle division. Is that anything 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:44.359 you require? Slowly we are bringing the palace back to 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:58.160 its former glory. Yes, good, carry on, she's out there somewhere. Yes, 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:14.240 what is it? Hello? That which is dead will live again? 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:23.639 Is this a note from Maya for me? Yes? You 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:25.720 were outside my rooms just now. Did you see anyone 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:29.680 pass by? Yes? Yes, a woman. What did she look like? 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:31.920 I don't know what? We were working and she just 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:35.320 passed by? A lady slave? I thought she would a hood. 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:43.200 Which way did she go that way? Is everything wrong? You? 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:46.760 Did anyone pass by this way? No? One know? Excellency, 0:22:55.800 --> 0:23:06.399 which is dead will live again? That new traders are 0:23:06.480 --> 0:23:09.920 arriving daily. Be careful of them. Some would try to 0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:13.080 make their merchantise look fresher than they actually are. Then 0:23:13.119 --> 0:23:15.320 you get them home and discovered they can't even stand 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:19.480 up with other assistance. And some are a danger, especially 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:23.000 if you have children in the house. See this one 0:23:23.040 --> 0:23:30.400 for example. You stop forward, ye, come, come, slave, That's 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:35.879 that's it. Don't be scared, that's right, that's right. What 0:23:36.000 --> 0:23:38.840 are you doing? You don't stop in her? Offended? Offended? 0:23:38.960 --> 0:23:41.760 Did you see? What are you doing? He didn't even react, 0:23:41.880 --> 0:23:46.639 didn't even fridge you, sir, what do you drug your 0:23:46.680 --> 0:23:51.080 slaves with? No offendi. We would never drug us. Crocie. 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:54.080 You dug your stage with opiates. I didn't know that 0:23:54.240 --> 0:23:57.800 strongness character, that illness of mind. That's why I cut someone. 0:23:57.840 --> 0:24:01.560 Don't talk to me. Come my, it's it's let's ta go. 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:05.399 That's it. Now you must trying to deal with the 0:24:05.480 --> 0:24:08.560 traitors who have the short time seal if you can 0:24:08.600 --> 0:24:12.840 find them. Most, unfortunately, are the dead or have electricity. 0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:15.160 I am one of the very few of the old 0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:21.679 God left heaven. Yes it is heaven. Isn't even base 0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:27.160 own flesh and blood. Yes, I'm so sorry about your father. 0:24:27.920 --> 0:24:33.560 He was a good man. Thank you live ay. He 0:24:33.720 --> 0:24:38.239 had some bad luck, your father. How is business now? 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:42.320 Not good? Not good? For a while the ship stopped 0:24:42.320 --> 0:24:47.439 delivering slaves altogether. Now they are trickling in, but fairly 0:24:47.480 --> 0:24:51.200 not the quality customers expect. You know, teen boys from 0:24:51.280 --> 0:24:57.679 the swamps, often with disease. But perhaps things will improve 0:24:57.800 --> 0:25:04.080 with time. Having to keep back, I come, it's not 0:25:04.200 --> 0:25:08.160 a good idea to get to be here with this. Come, 0:25:08.280 --> 0:25:15.200 come you when we get some tea. So I took 0:25:15.320 --> 0:25:21.639 the liberty of preparing an agreement for what well our 0:25:21.720 --> 0:25:25.639 business arrangements. Of course, Mistress I'll read it for you 0:25:25.840 --> 0:25:30.120 and then your husband and signed. No, I will read 0:25:30.160 --> 0:25:35.240 it and I will sign it. Ah, of course, of course. Please. 0:25:35.520 --> 0:25:37.680 My wife has a shrewd eye for the detail than me. 0:25:37.840 --> 0:25:44.440 She gets it from her father. Wonderful, wonderful. You know 0:25:44.520 --> 0:25:47.560 this place used to be buzzing. You could barely get 0:25:47.600 --> 0:25:49.800 a seat with that. I am not quite clear what 0:25:49.960 --> 0:25:53.280 this means. Yes, yes, Mr said, that's just the standard. Close. 0:25:53.359 --> 0:25:55.879 It just authorizes PAPAN as your agent to act in 0:25:55.920 --> 0:25:59.920 your name. High clues you know by the slaves. Well, 0:26:00.200 --> 0:26:04.040 it's necessary if I'm providing the expertise, I need to 0:26:04.119 --> 0:26:07.560 have your authority to I've got five hundred slaves in 0:26:07.640 --> 0:26:12.480 SMYRNA paid for, just waiting to be collected. I don't 0:26:12.640 --> 0:26:15.880 feel comfortable. Just want you to be comfortable. My dear 0:26:15.960 --> 0:26:18.840 girl is to supply the slaves. It makes sense he 0:26:18.840 --> 0:26:21.760 should have the authority. I can see you need to 0:26:21.800 --> 0:26:25.120 think about this. I'll step outside and you can discuss. 0:26:25.440 --> 0:26:31.600 Please discuss away and wants you to be happy. What's wrong? 0:26:31.960 --> 0:26:34.800 I don't know what. I don't trust him. This is 0:26:34.840 --> 0:26:38.480 a good deal. Everyone is desperate for slaves. Supposing he 0:26:38.560 --> 0:26:40.439 sells off with my father's ship, and we never hear 0:26:40.480 --> 0:26:43.439 from him again. Why would he He wants to make 0:26:43.520 --> 0:26:46.320 money from the slaves. Were better to selldom than into munday. 0:26:47.800 --> 0:26:50.520 I can't sign over my authority to him. I just can't. 0:26:52.840 --> 0:26:55.360 Then you will be a slave merchant without any slaves 0:26:55.440 --> 0:27:02.120 to sell this keep back. I need to go with him. 0:27:02.720 --> 0:27:05.960 What are you talking about? He needs to be watched. 0:27:06.040 --> 0:27:08.280 We can let him just I don't understand. You can 0:27:08.359 --> 0:27:13.600 come to and that child, or you can stay home 0:27:13.640 --> 0:27:16.880 and take care of her. It's not safe. We got 0:27:16.920 --> 0:27:20.520 here together across the desert, didn't we. That was when 0:27:20.560 --> 0:27:24.040 the empire was strong. Now there are bandits everywhere. Good 0:27:24.080 --> 0:27:31.359 by see there were storms, shipwrecks, pirates. Look, I'll go No, 0:27:32.440 --> 0:27:35.439 you'd be too trusting. You don't know anything about this business, 0:27:35.840 --> 0:27:40.680 do you. I've watched my father that I may not 0:27:40.800 --> 0:27:42.480 have done it, but I watched him and he was 0:27:42.520 --> 0:27:45.119 good at it. And the one thing I know is 0:27:45.200 --> 0:27:46.879 you need to be there to know what's going on. 0:27:47.040 --> 0:27:49.480 But then says he's got five hundred slaves at spir 0:27:49.560 --> 0:27:52.760 Now we don't know that. He seems like a good 0:27:52.840 --> 0:28:02.680 man to me. My point exactly, everything all right? M hmm, 0:28:14.560 --> 0:28:21.520 s The palace Scriptorium exolucy. What an honor it is 0:28:21.600 --> 0:28:23.879 that you should grace our library with Yes, yes, yes, 0:28:24.440 --> 0:28:28.800 this line? Where does it come from? That which is 0:28:28.880 --> 0:28:37.520 dead will live again? Yes, it's familiar, it's um it's wrong. 0:28:38.160 --> 0:28:41.400 What whoever wrote it has got it wrong? It should 0:28:41.440 --> 0:28:45.360 be will rise again? It's from an old poem by 0:28:45.400 --> 0:28:50.360 the Oh let me see. It's amazing we managed to 0:28:50.400 --> 0:28:52.560 save so much of this material. That's so much of 0:28:52.600 --> 0:28:56.440 it survived as well. Yes, get on with it. It's 0:28:56.600 --> 0:29:01.440 somewhere up there with the commentaries. You boy, hop up 0:29:01.440 --> 0:29:04.280 the ladder, will you and bring me a volume fifty 0:29:04.720 --> 0:29:09.560 of the that's the one. So much of the good 0:29:09.640 --> 0:29:12.560 stuff was well. It's not commonly known. Of course. Mayer's 0:29:12.600 --> 0:29:16.240 people weren't destroying it. They were selling it. They needed 0:29:16.280 --> 0:29:23.480 the money to pay for their armies. Thank you. Look 0:29:23.520 --> 0:29:29.240 at the binding on this, the decoration, the beautiful scroll work. Yes. 0:29:29.480 --> 0:29:33.200 Please the quote, well, it's a short poem by the 0:29:33.280 --> 0:29:41.040 Faian Mountain poet Abbennal. Yes, there's your poem, excellency. I 0:29:41.120 --> 0:29:45.120 don't understand it, of course I will translate it for you. 0:29:46.720 --> 0:29:50.240 That which is dead will rise again? The riverbed will 0:29:50.280 --> 0:29:54.000 flow once more, the Tree of Sorrows from the dust 0:29:54.240 --> 0:29:57.840 emerge with the eye of the bird. The sword of 0:29:58.000 --> 0:30:01.960 light appears the goal olden domes, but specs on a 0:30:02.080 --> 0:30:06.160 tapestry of time. Wonderful, just wonder yes, But what does 0:30:06.200 --> 0:30:08.560 it mean? What is the sword of light the Tree 0:30:08.640 --> 0:30:12.400 of sorrows? It's poetry. He is taking us from the 0:30:12.520 --> 0:30:15.320 depths of despair to the soaring heights, like a bird 0:30:15.520 --> 0:30:19.560 looking down from the sky. It said that Abenal was 0:30:19.600 --> 0:30:21.800 one of the very first kite flyers in the city 0:30:22.320 --> 0:30:25.120 when he was a boy, and that's how he crippled himself. 0:30:25.920 --> 0:30:28.320 People look up at them today and think that's just 0:30:28.520 --> 0:30:31.360 what the youth are doing. But there are drawings from 0:30:31.520 --> 0:30:34.800 many centuries ago. The kite flyers are nothing new. I 0:30:34.840 --> 0:30:40.880 can show you here in this volume. Here, my lord, 0:30:42.960 --> 0:30:53.920 my lord, where did he go? The kite flyers, the 0:30:54.040 --> 0:30:57.000 gangs of youths who tempt chance with their lives daily. 0:30:57.160 --> 0:31:00.800 For what a moment of share an adulter it in excitement, 0:31:01.360 --> 0:31:07.040 a moment of truth. I can understand that. Are you there? Hey, hey, hey, 0:31:07.080 --> 0:31:09.520 don't run, don't run. I mean you're no harm. I 0:31:09.720 --> 0:31:13.000 want to talk to you. You want to join us, grandfather, 0:31:14.600 --> 0:31:16.720 I wouldn't presume to be able to do what you do. 0:31:17.000 --> 0:31:22.080 I can see that it takes great skill that it does. Excellency, 0:31:22.960 --> 0:31:26.240 you know who I am. I know well enough. Have 0:31:26.360 --> 0:31:30.480 you come to rest us? I need your help? Help? 0:31:31.040 --> 0:31:33.880 You have seen the city from the sky? Tell me 0:31:34.960 --> 0:31:38.080 what is the Sword of Light? The Sword of Light? 0:31:39.880 --> 0:31:43.200 I've never heard of it. Are you sure? You'll have 0:31:43.240 --> 0:31:46.560 to ask one of your informers or spires. We're the skirets. 0:31:46.800 --> 0:31:54.040 We don't talk to no one. It's where the ground 0:31:54.120 --> 0:31:56.680 road comes into the city and joins the Street of 0:31:56.720 --> 0:32:01.160 the Swords. What from above it looks like a sword. 0:32:02.000 --> 0:32:04.760 You can see it from the highest towers, but otherwise 0:32:04.800 --> 0:32:07.200 you wouldn't know it was there unless you were flying 0:32:07.880 --> 0:32:11.479 like us. And the Tree of Sorrows, I have never 0:32:11.560 --> 0:32:15.760 heard of the Tree of Sorrows. You boy, I recognize 0:32:15.800 --> 0:32:19.200 you from somewhere. I don't think so offending you or 0:32:19.240 --> 0:32:21.800 the child who had visions. You came to the palace 0:32:21.920 --> 0:32:26.240 once to meet the sortan No, not me. A toad 0:32:26.600 --> 0:32:33.920