Speaker 1: M m excercy. They are waiting for you. Will thank
Speaker 1: you for coming so late this way. Come into the
Speaker 1: cool room, excellency, but do more light. Of course, it
Speaker 1: may be nothing, but it may be well. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to be the one responsible for for what well,
Speaker 1: for not doing my duty to human b Excellency. I
Speaker 1: thought we would want to say, he this go on
Speaker 1: a body. Timan Bay has many bodies, not like this one.
Speaker 1: It arrived this morning, backed in ice, in a caravan
Speaker 1: from al Farsie. It's quite far gone, but you can
Speaker 1: see what you have to see this way. Please. Two
Speaker 1: days ago, early in the morning, a soldier. We think
Speaker 1: he was a soldier from his uniform, though as you
Speaker 1: can see there's not much of it left, likely from
Speaker 1: one of the border garrison's. He stumbled into the town
Speaker 1: of al Farzi, apparently screaming his head off. We think
Speaker 1: he may have been the last survivor, the last survivor
Speaker 1: of what the border garrison. There had been some skirmishes
Speaker 1: with the local tribes or a deserter, not likely, excellency.
Speaker 1: Not with these wounds he walked into al Fasi in
Speaker 1: this state. Apart from his screaming, did he say anything. No,
Speaker 1: he couldn't. No tongue you see, or hands or feet.
Speaker 1: He must have crawled through the desert. What do you think?
Speaker 1: So it didn't happen in battle. Someone took their time
Speaker 1: to do this. They took care of it to ensure
Speaker 1: he wouldn't die. You see, the wounds are quarterized. That's
Speaker 1: what I thought. That's why I sent for you, excellency,
Speaker 1: turn him over. But m ah, yes, I just wondered
Speaker 1: about that. He's been branded. People are comforted by a
Speaker 1: sense of order in this world. The things that surround us,
Speaker 1: the walls of the houses, the streets, the people, the empires.
Speaker 1: They give us certainty, a sense of purpose gradually stripped away,
Speaker 1: and you realize you're completely on your own, and everyone
Speaker 1: and everything is different to what you thought. Thank you
Speaker 1: report any other strange occurrences to me, of course you're excellent.
Speaker 1: But for now, to Munda is a city trying to
Speaker 1: recover from the rule of Maya. Baker's still baked bread,
Speaker 1: butcher's still prepare meat, and the young men of Tu Munday, well,
Speaker 1: they still fly in the skies above the city. H
Speaker 1: Hi broke a party approaching across the desert. There's a banner.
Speaker 1: It looks official. Oh are you all right? Yeah? That
Speaker 1: was amazing. My name's frog Frog. What kind of a
Speaker 1: name is that? It used to be my nickname, but
Speaker 1: now it's my name. What do you do? Frog? Do
Speaker 1: you croak? Do you eat flies? No? I fly, but
Speaker 1: you must have a real name. No, I haven't seen
Speaker 1: you here before. I live in the bull Pass Quarter.
Speaker 1: My father's a merchant, a merchant of what what do
Speaker 1: I care? All he's interested in is making money. But
Speaker 1: there has to be more to life than that, don't
Speaker 1: you think? Like? What? Well, what you do climbing the
Speaker 1: city walls, jumping off them? Flying? Well it might look easy,
Speaker 1: but you need to know what you're doing. Do you
Speaker 1: know what you're doing? Of course I haven't been doing
Speaker 1: it for years. Then you can show me, can't you?
Speaker 1: Who is this matilla girl? Like you do with a sky?
Speaker 1: Frog watching? So what you see? What you from the sky?
Speaker 1: What did you see? Twenty awsom? At least they had
Speaker 1: a flag. I think it's the new prince come to
Speaker 1: marry our sultana Inca sir? Why have you stuff? I
Speaker 1: came here once as a child. I thought they had
Speaker 1: burnt it to the ground, but it's still so so.
Speaker 1: I hope the Sultanas as beautiful. Yeah, she's a bit
Speaker 1: of a fighter, that's right, sir. She's killed a few
Speaker 1: in her client I wouldn't turn my back on her
Speaker 1: if I was you. I'm not till you know her. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll see. Come on, I want to see what's behind
Speaker 1: those walls. Humanly Series three, Episode one, Tree of Sorrows
Speaker 1: by John Scott Dryden. Tuman Bay has survived, as it
Speaker 1: always does, but it is a city weakened by Maya's
Speaker 1: brutal occupation. Everyone is rebuilding. It is a city of builders.
Speaker 1: And in one part of the city, away from the palace,
Speaker 1: at the house of my poor old friend, the slave
Speaker 1: trader Ibn Bay, his daughter Heaven, a young woman who
Speaker 1: will become part of this mystery, is rebuilding her life. Yes,
Speaker 1: is the lady of the house at all? What is
Speaker 1: it concerning? I am a friend of her poor dear father,
Speaker 1: Hibn Bay. I felt it my duty to come by
Speaker 1: and see how my dear French's daughter is faring. Now
Speaker 1: that dust has settled, so to speak. Please please come in.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for the mess mentioned it, my dear man.
Speaker 1: Don't mention it we have all suffered. We're all rebuilding
Speaker 1: our lives. My wife is with our child. Come out
Speaker 1: into the courtyard, asked them to bring refreshments. But I
Speaker 1: really don't want to trappic. It's no trouble, it's no trouble.
Speaker 1: Please please. So are you and my father were close, Yes,
Speaker 1: Mrs Heaven, the closest of friends. We were business associates.
Speaker 1: I'm also in the trade. Well, poor fellow, I'm so
Speaker 1: sorry for what happened. Thank you. You know your your
Speaker 1: father's reputation was like no other. Reputation is everything in
Speaker 1: this business. He was a man of his word. He
Speaker 1: was a good man. Your father may have mentioned me, Oh,
Speaker 1: but how rude of me, band, Melissia Fair Mcpooland but
Speaker 1: everyone knows me as just band. Well, my father really
Speaker 1: talked to me about his business, of course, and yet
Speaker 1: even in business he often talked about you, Mr seven.
Speaker 1: Everything he did was for you. Yes, well, he loved
Speaker 1: his family very much, did he did. Yes. I apologize
Speaker 1: for the state of the house. Not at all, Mistress,
Speaker 1: not at all. They went through all my father's things
Speaker 1: after his arrest. So much was taken and the rest well,
Speaker 1: as you see, such a pity, but at least you
Speaker 1: have your husband and child. Yes, we feel very fortunate.
Speaker 1: We lost her. She was taken from us during the occupation.
Speaker 1: We were lucky to find her. Blessings come at the
Speaker 1: most surprising times. Yes, ah, yes, if you will excuse me,
Speaker 1: I must know there is something, yes, mistress, before you
Speaker 1: go to attend your child. Of course, how can I
Speaker 1: bab bring this up at such a no, bab, you
Speaker 1: must you know your your father would have wanted me
Speaker 1: to as a man of honor. What is it, mistress?
Speaker 1: Even by your father took a consignment of slaves from me,
Speaker 1: and well when all this happened, well, he never managed
Speaker 1: to pay me for them. I see m hm, media madam.
Speaker 1: If you could please see to Pamina, I will come shortly.
Speaker 1: How much did my father owe you? Let me see
Speaker 1: for the head of I think there was eight, yes, fifty, yes,
Speaker 1: twelve hundred pinari. Yes, I will of course honor any
Speaker 1: depths my father may have had. You have a receipt,
Speaker 1: promissory note or such like, Oh you can read, I can,
Speaker 1: of course, of course. Well, it was an agreement made
Speaker 1: between friends, and a man's word is his. I'm sure
Speaker 1: I have something I can bring to you to do
Speaker 1: to show of course. Good good, thank you for coming.
Speaker 1: So so what are your plans now? We're going through
Speaker 1: my father's papers, learning all weekend about his business. We
Speaker 1: plan to take it over, what's left of it, and
Speaker 1: try to build it up. Good. Yeah, there's a big
Speaker 1: and for slaves at the moment everyone's rebuilding. You can
Speaker 1: capitalize on this, That's what I keep telling her. The problem,
Speaker 1: of course these days, if you'll forgive me, the problem
Speaker 1: is supply. Have you thought about that? We were lucky
Speaker 1: that one of the hubun By ships was at a
Speaker 1: foreign port when the occupation happened. That's all. My father
Speaker 1: was a shrewd man, he was. Indeed, where is your
Speaker 1: father's ship? Where Smyrna? My family is from there. We
Speaker 1: have sent word to supplies there, but quality. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: your associates haven't found the quality of slaves you require.
Speaker 1: Am I right? More or less? The occupation has destroyed
Speaker 1: the supply chain. Now the empire is weak, The roots
Speaker 1: aren't safe, and I'm sure any half decent slaves you
Speaker 1: are able to acquire are expensive. Yes, we are trying
Speaker 1: to raise funds. M hmm, barban and see who are
Speaker 1: going to make a success of this. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1: We think so too. Look, I wouldn't normally do this,
Speaker 1: but Balvan is going to hold off your father's death. Really,
Speaker 1: that's please. There's no need to thank me. In fact,
Speaker 1: I want to help you. I can see you need help.
Speaker 1: I can show you how the slave business works. Maybe
Speaker 1: Bavant can even invest in your endeavors. Tuman Bay is
Speaker 1: on its knees. To survive. Alliances are required, Your majesty,
Speaker 1: his excellency, Prince Herod, son of the Governor of Rashim Province.
Speaker 1: What's going on? The fabled White Ape of the exotic world?
Speaker 1: Captured by my stepfather and one of his many hunting
Speaker 1: expeditions to the lands of the Klakara. A strange and
Speaker 1: wonderful creature of great value and a fitting wedding gift
Speaker 1: to my beautiful bride. H I see, very strange and wonderful.
Speaker 1: Thank you. The Sultans of human Bay are famed throughout
Speaker 1: the world for their menagerie of exotic creatures. I hope
Speaker 1: my gift will help return the menagerie back to its
Speaker 1: former glory after these times of trouble. Someone please take
Speaker 1: my niece Monel, our new Sultana Gregor, head of the
Speaker 1: palace guard. Can you please find someone to feed and
Speaker 1: water our our friend here? Of course, am I now
Speaker 1: also to be her official monkey handler. Take the ape
Speaker 1: to the menagerie, see to its well being. Yes, so
Speaker 1: you call yourself a prince, that your father is a
Speaker 1: provincial governor? Is he now a king? No? No, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's merely what my mother has always called me,
Speaker 1: Prince Herod. Yes, huh. To be honest, I'm a little
Speaker 1: awe struck by the sight of such perfection. I see well,
Speaker 1: I thank you. I mean the city. I thought it
Speaker 1: had been burnt to the ground by Maya, and yet
Speaker 1: and yet it still stands so elegantly, so magnificently. Yes,
Speaker 1: we are rebuilding and doing our best to repair what
Speaker 1: was destroyed by the Zealots. I've heard of your bravery, majesty,
Speaker 1: how you slew Maya's regent Sarah in this very room
Speaker 1: in front of me. I had the chance to do
Speaker 1: it myself, but I didn't. I couldn't. Was I beguiled
Speaker 1: by her? They disappear into the walls. That's what she
Speaker 1: told me before she died. Of course, we could not
Speaker 1: have defeat admire without commander Kulan, who built and led
Speaker 1: an army of slaves to storm the city. Father, it
Speaker 1: is an honor. No, please, sir, it is not who
Speaker 1: are the greatest commander touman Bay has ever known. I
Speaker 1: have read of your deeds in the histories. I amili
Speaker 1: a servant of tuman Bay, and you will be too
Speaker 1: when you take my daughter's hand in marriage. You will
Speaker 1: never know who the believers are until it's time for
Speaker 1: them to come out again. With you at my side,
Speaker 1: we will make tuman Bay. They might be your neighbor again.
Speaker 1: They might be your friend, majesty, if I may advice,
Speaker 1: They might even be your adviser. I would suggest at
Speaker 1: this point it would be a good idea to ask
Speaker 1: Britt to stand now alkin the traveler, now Vizier to
Speaker 1: the Sultana, replacing that slimy worm Cardali, a man I
Speaker 1: hated and who hated me. And tuman Bay. They are
Speaker 1: of living. Here's the art of surviving. The meeting is over.
Speaker 1: It went well, Yes, yes, they seem a good match.
Speaker 1: Where are you, Gregor? I'm right here, brother, watching, waiting,
Speaker 1: looking for anything out of the ordinary. Keeping the sultana safe.
Speaker 1: That's my job. And have you seen anything out of
Speaker 1: the ordinary apart from a white ape. There are things,
Speaker 1: small things, perhaps things that may point to Maya. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't look into
Speaker 1: everything that seems out of place. Maya is defeated. I
Speaker 1: found the door to my apartment unlocked this morning. I
Speaker 1: always lock it. Maybe you need to take some time off.
Speaker 1: There's too much to do. You've been through a lot.
Speaker 1: The palace guard will see rooting out the spies. They
Speaker 1: could be spies. There. Spy is everywhere. They come out
Speaker 1: of the walls. You're stuck in the swamp, Gregor. We've
Speaker 1: drained the swamp. There are other dangers. Now is weak.
Speaker 1: We need to rebuild. We need alliances. Then you do
Speaker 1: your job and let me do mine. He's a fool.
Speaker 1: At least he's a handsome fool. I'm a little awe
Speaker 1: struck by the side of such perfection on our first meeting,
Speaker 1: and he wasn't even talking about me. He will look
Speaker 1: good sitting beside you on the throne. So with that monkey.
Speaker 1: His mother seriously calls him prince. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: marry a man whose mother calls him. You keep taking
Speaker 1: one step forward and two steps back. Your father is right.
Speaker 1: Why do I need a husband? I already have another?
Speaker 1: M hm m hmm. Marriage is for legitimacy. Lovers are
Speaker 1: for pleasure. They are two separate things. Your father, I'm
Speaker 1: not my father, but I have proved myself. If you
Speaker 1: are so keen on him, why don't you go to him?
Speaker 1: I know you do well. You are more beautiful and lovely.
Speaker 1: If you have taught me anything, it is to mistrust
Speaker 1: honeyed words. All right, try these words. You have no choice.
Speaker 1: It has to be done. You have to play this
Speaker 1: part as I have to play the part of your vizier.
Speaker 1: It's all storytelling. We are part of the great story
Speaker 1: of two Munday. Maybe you will understand that one day.
Speaker 1: Who are you really? Really? We are who we are here?
Speaker 1: And now that's all that concerns us. And you need
Speaker 1: to marry this oiled, gnolly cuddled mamma's boy. Yes, you
Speaker 1: need to do it, slave. Take this day after day,
Speaker 1: hour after hour, I paced the palace corridors looking for signs.
Speaker 1: How is it possible that she conquered an empire and
Speaker 1: then simply disappeared like water? Soaking away. There are so
Speaker 1: many collaborators out there still finding it's my job to
Speaker 1: any progress. All right, it's good to work, sir. You
Speaker 1: say you were just employed in the scriptorium. Yes, excellency,
Speaker 1: that's all. But wasn't it your name on the arrestaurants?
Speaker 1: Didn't you countersign them? Do you know your name was
Speaker 1: on that order too? You told me to sign it
Speaker 1: to the worst collaborator of them all, And yet you, Gregor,
Speaker 1: you walk free. Do you feel chap? I look within
Speaker 1: myself for that shame for even the tiniest spec But no,
Speaker 1: are you still in touch with her? Do you mean Maya?
Speaker 1: How do you contact her? How does she reach you?
Speaker 1: I have never even sent eyes on her. All I
Speaker 1: did was my job, just like you continue. Yes, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: The others are too busy rebuilding. They think it's all over.
Speaker 1: Good luck to them. They don't see what I see. Yes,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Oh? I'm sorry, excellency, I didn't
Speaker 1: realize you were here. We had appending the damage to
Speaker 1: the walls. We will come back later. You are the supervisor, yes, excellency,
Speaker 1: Selim pash out of the middle division. Is that anything
Speaker 1: you require? Slowly we are bringing the palace back to
Speaker 1: its former glory. Yes, good, carry on, she's out there somewhere. Yes,
Speaker 1: what is it? Hello? That which is dead will live again?
Speaker 1: Is this a note from Maya for me? Yes? You
Speaker 1: were outside my rooms just now. Did you see anyone
Speaker 1: pass by? Yes? Yes, a woman. What did she look like?
Speaker 1: I don't know what? We were working and she just
Speaker 1: passed by? A lady slave? I thought she would a hood.
Speaker 1: Which way did she go that way? Is everything wrong? You?
Speaker 1: Did anyone pass by this way? No? One know? Excellency,
Speaker 1: which is dead will live again? That new traders are
Speaker 1: arriving daily. Be careful of them. Some would try to
Speaker 1: make their merchantise look fresher than they actually are. Then
Speaker 1: you get them home and discovered they can't even stand
Speaker 1: up with other assistance. And some are a danger, especially
Speaker 1: if you have children in the house. See this one
Speaker 1: for example. You stop forward, ye, come, come, slave, That's
Speaker 1: that's it. Don't be scared, that's right, that's right. What
Speaker 1: are you doing? You don't stop in her? Offended? Offended?
Speaker 1: Did you see? What are you doing? He didn't even react,
Speaker 1: didn't even fridge you, sir, what do you drug your
Speaker 1: slaves with? No offendi. We would never drug us. Crocie.
Speaker 1: You dug your stage with opiates. I didn't know that
Speaker 1: strongness character, that illness of mind. That's why I cut someone.
Speaker 1: Don't talk to me. Come my, it's it's let's ta go.
Speaker 1: That's it. Now you must trying to deal with the
Speaker 1: traitors who have the short time seal if you can
Speaker 1: find them. Most, unfortunately, are the dead or have electricity.
Speaker 1: I am one of the very few of the old
Speaker 1: God left heaven. Yes it is heaven. Isn't even base
Speaker 1: own flesh and blood. Yes, I'm so sorry about your father.
Speaker 1: He was a good man. Thank you live ay. He
Speaker 1: had some bad luck, your father. How is business now?
Speaker 1: Not good? Not good? For a while the ship stopped
Speaker 1: delivering slaves altogether. Now they are trickling in, but fairly
Speaker 1: not the quality customers expect. You know, teen boys from
Speaker 1: the swamps, often with disease. But perhaps things will improve
Speaker 1: with time. Having to keep back, I come, it's not
Speaker 1: a good idea to get to be here with this. Come,
Speaker 1: come you when we get some tea. So I took
Speaker 1: the liberty of preparing an agreement for what well our
Speaker 1: business arrangements. Of course, Mistress I'll read it for you
Speaker 1: and then your husband and signed. No, I will read
Speaker 1: it and I will sign it. Ah, of course, of course. Please.
Speaker 1: My wife has a shrewd eye for the detail than me.
Speaker 1: She gets it from her father. Wonderful, wonderful. You know
Speaker 1: this place used to be buzzing. You could barely get
Speaker 1: a seat with that. I am not quite clear what
Speaker 1: this means. Yes, yes, Mr said, that's just the standard. Close.
Speaker 1: It just authorizes PAPAN as your agent to act in
Speaker 1: your name. High clues you know by the slaves. Well,
Speaker 1: it's necessary if I'm providing the expertise, I need to
Speaker 1: have your authority to I've got five hundred slaves in
Speaker 1: SMYRNA paid for, just waiting to be collected. I don't
Speaker 1: feel comfortable. Just want you to be comfortable. My dear
Speaker 1: girl is to supply the slaves. It makes sense he
Speaker 1: should have the authority. I can see you need to
Speaker 1: think about this. I'll step outside and you can discuss.
Speaker 1: Please discuss away and wants you to be happy. What's wrong?
Speaker 1: I don't know what. I don't trust him. This is
Speaker 1: a good deal. Everyone is desperate for slaves. Supposing he
Speaker 1: sells off with my father's ship, and we never hear
Speaker 1: from him again. Why would he He wants to make
Speaker 1: money from the slaves. Were better to selldom than into munday.
Speaker 1: I can't sign over my authority to him. I just can't.
Speaker 1: Then you will be a slave merchant without any slaves
Speaker 1: to sell this keep back. I need to go with him.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? He needs to be watched.
Speaker 1: We can let him just I don't understand. You can
Speaker 1: come to and that child, or you can stay home
Speaker 1: and take care of her. It's not safe. We got
Speaker 1: here together across the desert, didn't we. That was when
Speaker 1: the empire was strong. Now there are bandits everywhere. Good
Speaker 1: by see there were storms, shipwrecks, pirates. Look, I'll go No,
Speaker 1: you'd be too trusting. You don't know anything about this business,
Speaker 1: do you. I've watched my father that I may not
Speaker 1: have done it, but I watched him and he was
Speaker 1: good at it. And the one thing I know is
Speaker 1: you need to be there to know what's going on.
Speaker 1: But then says he's got five hundred slaves at spir
Speaker 1: Now we don't know that. He seems like a good
Speaker 1: man to me. My point exactly, everything all right? M hmm,
Speaker 1: s The palace Scriptorium exolucy. What an honor it is
Speaker 1: that you should grace our library with Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: this line? Where does it come from? That which is
Speaker 1: dead will live again? Yes, it's familiar, it's um it's wrong.
Speaker 1: What whoever wrote it has got it wrong? It should
Speaker 1: be will rise again? It's from an old poem by
Speaker 1: the Oh let me see. It's amazing we managed to
Speaker 1: save so much of this material. That's so much of
Speaker 1: it survived as well. Yes, get on with it. It's
Speaker 1: somewhere up there with the commentaries. You boy, hop up
Speaker 1: the ladder, will you and bring me a volume fifty
Speaker 1: of the that's the one. So much of the good
Speaker 1: stuff was well. It's not commonly known. Of course. Mayer's
Speaker 1: people weren't destroying it. They were selling it. They needed
Speaker 1: the money to pay for their armies. Thank you. Look
Speaker 1: at the binding on this, the decoration, the beautiful scroll work. Yes.
Speaker 1: Please the quote, well, it's a short poem by the
Speaker 1: Faian Mountain poet Abbennal. Yes, there's your poem, excellency. I
Speaker 1: don't understand it, of course I will translate it for you.
Speaker 1: That which is dead will rise again? The riverbed will
Speaker 1: flow once more, the Tree of Sorrows from the dust
Speaker 1: emerge with the eye of the bird. The sword of
Speaker 1: light appears the goal olden domes, but specs on a
Speaker 1: tapestry of time. Wonderful, just wonder yes, But what does
Speaker 1: it mean? What is the sword of light the Tree
Speaker 1: of sorrows? It's poetry. He is taking us from the
Speaker 1: depths of despair to the soaring heights, like a bird
Speaker 1: looking down from the sky. It said that Abenal was
Speaker 1: one of the very first kite flyers in the city
Speaker 1: when he was a boy, and that's how he crippled himself.
Speaker 1: People look up at them today and think that's just
Speaker 1: what the youth are doing. But there are drawings from
Speaker 1: many centuries ago. The kite flyers are nothing new. I
Speaker 1: can show you here in this volume. Here, my lord,
Speaker 1: my lord, where did he go? The kite flyers, the
Speaker 1: gangs of youths who tempt chance with their lives daily.
Speaker 1: For what a moment of share an adulter it in excitement,
Speaker 1: a moment of truth. I can understand that. Are you there? Hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: don't run, don't run. I mean you're no harm. I
Speaker 1: want to talk to you. You want to join us, grandfather,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't presume to be able to do what you do.
Speaker 1: I can see that it takes great skill that it does. Excellency,
Speaker 1: you know who I am. I know well enough. Have
Speaker 1: you come to rest us? I need your help? Help?
Speaker 1: You have seen the city from the sky? Tell me
Speaker 1: what is the Sword of Light? The Sword of Light?
Speaker 1: I've never heard of it. Are you sure? You'll have
Speaker 1: to ask one of your informers or spires. We're the skirets.
Speaker 1: We don't talk to no one. It's where the ground
Speaker 1: road comes into the city and joins the Street of
Speaker 1: the Swords. What from above it looks like a sword.
Speaker 1: You can see it from the highest towers, but otherwise
Speaker 1: you wouldn't know it was there unless you were flying
Speaker 1: like us. And the Tree of Sorrows, I have never
Speaker 1: heard of the Tree of Sorrows. You boy, I recognize
Speaker 1: you from somewhere. I don't think so offending you or
Speaker 1: the child who had visions. You came to the palace
Speaker 1: once to meet the sortan No, not me. A toad
Speaker 1: or frog, Yes, that's your name. You're mistaken, sir, I
Speaker 1: have to go frog. That's right. Don't talk to him.
Speaker 1: He's a squire from the palace. What did he want?
Speaker 1: Hey you, this is a square re street, so don't
Speaker 1: come here unless you want to get killed. It's very aggressive.
Speaker 1: It has to be m have to protect our patch.
Speaker 1: Noone else is going to do it for us. This
Speaker 1: is where you live. We are the rats who live
Speaker 1: in the city. All the money we beg and steal.
Speaker 1: We used to build kites, and that's what we do.
Speaker 1: He knew you, that man from the palace, he said
Speaker 1: he did. What did he mean about the visions? I
Speaker 1: was standing right there. I have no idea he thought
Speaker 1: I was someone else? Then how did he know your name?
Speaker 1: My parents thought I had the powers of prophecy. When
Speaker 1: I was young, I used to have dreams. My father
Speaker 1: worked at the palace, and once I was brought in
Speaker 1: front of the Sultan, I predicted a great victory. But
Speaker 1: I was wrong. Dreams can mean whatever you want them to.
Speaker 1: I don't have them anymore, and I'm glad because they
Speaker 1: were horrible dreams. Won't your father be wondering where you are?
Speaker 1: My father is too busy to care about where I am.
Speaker 1: But I have to go back to see my little brother.
Speaker 1: He likes to see me before he goes to sleep.
Speaker 1: Must be nice having a family. I will come back later.
Speaker 1: I'll bring food, thank you, But we don't need your charity.
Speaker 1: I want to stay on the streets with you. I
Speaker 1: want to see how the sky rats live. Suit yourself fine,
Speaker 1: as you can see, there is a lot to be done.
Speaker 1: We are still rebuilding the city. Well, I hope I'll
Speaker 1: be able to be some help. Why are you good
Speaker 1: at building? What do you mean putting up scaffolds, knocking
Speaker 1: down walls, lifting rocks. Well, I'm not sure. There is
Speaker 1: a shortage of workers now. I mean I have seen
Speaker 1: the slaves building an extension to my mother summer large.
Speaker 1: But I'm joking. You look so worried. Oh ah, yes, Mas,
Speaker 1: people took everything. See that's the Grand Dome. It used
Speaker 1: to be covered in gold. Now we have to replace
Speaker 1: it with copper. In time we will make Twoman by
Speaker 1: what it was. It's a great task, and sincerely, I
Speaker 1: really do want to help in any way I can.
Speaker 1: I know you do, and I appreciate what you and
Speaker 1: your family have done to help us in our time
Speaker 1: of need. Look, I know as well as you do.
Speaker 1: We've been pushed into this. It's politics, but we don't
Speaker 1: need to be the victims of it. We can ride
Speaker 1: this horse and see where it takes us. I know
Speaker 1: you have someone. What are you talking about? I've heard
Speaker 1: and you're loyal to her, and that's right by me.
Speaker 1: I understand that. I admire it. I'm not some great,
Speaker 1: hulking barbarian. He's gonna throw myself on you. I mean,
Speaker 1: do I look like a barbarian? Not exactly that. You
Speaker 1: and I will do we have to do, and who
Speaker 1: knows we may even enjoy it. You have such a
Speaker 1: nice open face when you laugh. Why don't we disagree.
Speaker 1: We'll sleep together when the prophet's demand, and we'll leave
Speaker 1: each to our own. We'll come together to sit in
Speaker 1: council to make decisions rule the empire. Decisions we need
Speaker 1: to make two muan bey grades. Again, Look, I don't
Speaker 1: think you understand what. You will not be sultan. You
Speaker 1: will be consort to the sultana, but you will have
Speaker 1: no power to rule. Oh I'm sorry, but this is no.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you said that, because what I said
Speaker 1: about the council that was my mother speaking, not me.
Speaker 1: I never wanted to be a ruler or a king
Speaker 1: or anything. I just want to go on with my life,
Speaker 1: enjoy myself. Wow, that's settled then, so let's agree it
Speaker 1: can be our secret secret. In public we are princetance
Speaker 1: Aultana and I'll do everything I'm quired of me. It's
Speaker 1: go on a good show. And in private we live
Speaker 1: the lines. We want to live without fear or shame.
Speaker 1: Do you agree that's what's exactly are we agreeing to.
Speaker 1: Don't say anything, Just smile like he did a few
Speaker 1: moments ago, and I'll know. Are you going somewhere? What
Speaker 1: is it to you? Where is your guard? Relax? Brother,
Speaker 1: You've been seen in the city alone. I'm not at
Speaker 1: liberty to discuss it. Why are you having me watched
Speaker 1: only for your protection? I'm worried about you, Gregor. Good
Speaker 1: to know there are people with scores to set it now, well,
Speaker 1: that's my job. Cool are to know what is going on?
Speaker 1: Maybe you should concern yourself with your job. How well
Speaker 1: could Tuman Bay defend itself from attack? I wonder there
Speaker 1: are people in the city who think you collaborated with
Speaker 1: Maya's regime. Come on, the excellency open, be careful, Grego.
Speaker 1: I'm always careful, brother, No, you used to be care
Speaker 1: good taggers with rubies and day you know, thank you.
Speaker 1: Looking for something special, perhaps empert still made by our
Speaker 1: very own crafts. Take it. Feel the weight mm hmm
Speaker 1: not bad? Oh? Feel the edge you see? Now hold
Speaker 1: it out. Watch this. I dropped the silk cloth onto it,
Speaker 1: and you see. You won't find this quality anywhere else
Speaker 1: in the street. You'd have to go to Idle Marsha
Speaker 1: or I'm looking for the Tree of Sorrows. I'm told
Speaker 1: it was in this area. Father. Oh, he's looking for
Speaker 1: the Three of Sorrows. Why I'm from the library. We're rebuilding,
Speaker 1: re catalog and finding out what has been lost and
Speaker 1: what we've saved. There's a poem by Abenal that talks
Speaker 1: of the Tree of Sorrows. It's not a tree at all.
Speaker 1: It's a well. We used to throw unfaithful wives down it.
Speaker 1: Where is it? They built over it years ago. We're
Speaker 1: just there at the end of the street where the
Speaker 1: cafe is. Um. I recognize you, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: You say you are from the Palace Library. That's right. No,
Speaker 1: you were with the rebels, weren't you, Yes? Perhaps, No, no, no, wait,
Speaker 1: you're the man who betrade my brothers. You informed, greig Or. No,
Speaker 1: you are mistaken, traitor, collaborator, Cragor. I don't know how
Speaker 1: sharp did you say the sword was. I wouldn't shout
Speaker 1: if I were you children? Do you have children? Yes? Good. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you the chance to live. I'm
Speaker 1: going to walk away into the crowd. But if you
Speaker 1: or your father here shouts again, I'm going to come
Speaker 1: back for you, maybe not today, but sometime soon with
Speaker 1: the palace guard. You understand, and you will be very,
Speaker 1: very apologetic to your father here, your wife, and your
Speaker 1: children for destroying their futures? Is that clear? Yes? How much?
Speaker 1: Very no? How much for the sword? Two? Never mind?
Speaker 1: Keep the change. I thought I knew every corner of
Speaker 1: this city, but it turns out I don't know much
Speaker 1: at all. Ah ah oh wow. Were you having one
Speaker 1: of your jewels? No? I don't have them anymore. That
Speaker 1: isn't true. What did you do? It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: Maybe I can help you understand it. I sort of
Speaker 1: fat bad, tied to a post. He was talking, talking
Speaker 1: so much, but I couldn't hear anything he said. Soldiers
Speaker 1: were standing all around him. Woman, the Sultana Babs and
Speaker 1: not our Sultana. She was older. I think our Saultana
Speaker 1: was there also, watching from behind. The older Sultana looked
Speaker 1: at the fat man with fire in her eyes. She
Speaker 1: was going to do something terrible to him. But then
Speaker 1: his tongue came out of his mouth like a lizard.
Speaker 1: He just kept on comic on and on, and then
Speaker 1: she cut it off and fell to the ground, and
Speaker 1: it turned into a snake and slithered away through the sand.
Speaker 1: You're having enough one of your dreams. No, we were
Speaker 1: just what could see into the future. You know, why
Speaker 1: don't you read my future? I can't. Just he never
Speaker 1: wants to help his friends. It's not that I have
Speaker 1: no real power. Stuff gave her a reading. No, don't lie,
Speaker 1: I heard you. Just tell her about it and tell
Speaker 1: me why or no, well, what is it? That thing
Speaker 1: I saw in your face just now? You saw saying?
Speaker 1: What was it? You're going to be a sea captain, No,
Speaker 1: a famous pirate, and you'll take on all of Tom
Speaker 1: and Bay's navy and would have beat them. Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: for sure, he will be feared by all and you
Speaker 1: will have nine children. Nine children? I not bade h.
Speaker 1: Can I go doing anything else? If there used to
Speaker 1: be a well here didn't the Actually it's still here
Speaker 1: at the back of years ago, the Tree of Sorrow.
Speaker 1: I understand it was called how are you from the place?
Speaker 1: Why I've been expecting new excellency? Why is that? Take
Speaker 1: this key and go down the passage. With that, you
Speaker 1: will see a small courtyard and did it just beyond it? Yes?
Speaker 1: But who gave me the or nothing? I'm just the messenger.
Speaker 1: He's waiting for you, Dad, He who was waiting for me.
Speaker 1: I just delivered the instructions. Please just along it. That's right.
Speaker 1: M hm h m hm Cadi, But that's impossible. You dead?
Speaker 1: Do I look dead? My dear fellow ye. Season three,
Speaker 1: Episode one of Tumuan Bay. Tree of Sorrows, featuring Rufus Wright,
Speaker 1: Asha Hart, Amir El Masri, and Olivia Popka, was written
Speaker 1: and directed by Me John Scott Dryden, with music by
Speaker 1: Sasha Putnam and editing and sound design by Eloise Whitmore.
Speaker 1: Tuman Bay is created by Me and Mike Walker and
Speaker 1: produced by Emma Hern and Nadir Khan. For more details,
Speaker 1: including scripts and cast list, visit to mun Bay dot com.