A NEW DAY
KEVIN
Ora...Ora come on. Come On...
Formosa, help! She’s, she's
bleeding...and...I mean, she’s not
moving. She was talking and then
she just passed out. I tried...
SPIRIT
(Neigh)
FORMOSA
Let me look.
KEVIN
Her face, she’s all covered with
blood and...
FORMOSA
Shhhh, Kevin, it’s alright. Look
after Spirit.
SPIRIT
(Neigh)
KEVIN
Alright.
Come here, girl. Come here.
It’s alright...shhh...I got ya’...
When Ivan blew up - or whatever he
did - she got knocked...
FORMOSA
Easy, easy. She’s breathing...her
heart is beating, her head is
intact.
KARRAS
ORA! She’s still alive, right?
KEVIN
Yes. She’s breathing.
KARRAS
Her face is all bloody. What...?
FORMOSA
She has a gash on her forehead, but
it’s not deep. It looks worse than
It is.
KARRAS
She’s not moving.
KEVIN
She’s fine. She's-she's fine..
She’s uh, you know... probably...
just... uhmm...
SPIRIT
(Neigh)
KEVIN
Right, Formosa?
FORMOSA
As far as I can tell, she’ll be
alright. Her breathing is normal.
She needs to rest, we all do. We’d
better get her someplace safe. Then
we can clean her up and tend to our
wounds.
KARRAS
Kevin! Kevin! Kevin can help! I
hurt my knee and he...
KEVIN
Karras! Calm down. Ora will be
fine. Formosa knows much more then
me and if she says Ora’s going to
be fine, then Ora is going to be
fine.
SPIRIT
(Blow)
KARRAS
Okay yeah... Yeah okay... okay
KEVIN
Wait...Spirit!
KARRAS
She's right here...are you okay?
KEVIN
No! That’s not what...where are the
Vigiles?
KARRAS
(grunts)
FORMOSA
We don’t know. They disappeared in
to the forest and only Spirit came
back out.
KEVIN
Good riddance.
KARRAS
Watch out... I’ve got you Ora
KEVIN
Easy, girl. Eas...
SPIRIT
(Blows)
KEVIN
Blah...I...I-I think Spirit wants
to carry her.
KARRAS
Here...Be...be careful... Be carful
with her.
SPIRIT
(Groans)
KEVIN
Where do we go now?
FORMOSA
Let’s head back into the forest.
KEVIN
That sounds like a good idea.
Formosa, if you cook again, I’ll go
get more water.
KARRAS
Where is Elizabeth?
FORMOSA
And Galen?
KARRAS
(Grunts)
KEVIN
I have to tell you...they were
spectacular...
SCENE BRAKE
KEVIN
(coughing)
What...? Who's...?
ORA
YOU CAN READ!!
KEVIN
Ora?! What?
ORA
All this time you could read! You
thought I forgot, didn’t you?!
KEVIN
Wait!
What are you doing?!
ORA
Shut up or you will wake everyone
else up!
KEVIN
You are the one attacking.
ORA
Yes, I AM!!
Why did you did not tell me?! All
this time!!
KEVIN
It would not have helped anything.
ORA
WHAT?! This whole time I have been
looking at these Prophecies by
myself. You don't think I could
have used some help?!
YOU IDIOT!
KEVIN
Hey! What do you want?! Do you have
any idea what people can do if they
know you can read?! I have seen It!
Even you told me that reading was
bad when we were at the tavern. I’m
not you! I’m not Elizabeth! I don’t
want to stand up and get in fights.
People know I can read, then what
happens to me?!
ORA
Well, you could have told me! You
could have been honest with me!
KEVIN
And then what?! What would you have
done with that information?! Kept
It to yourself? You would have made
me read in front of everyone any
time you wanted. You’d say things
like... “These people are fine.”
Well, guess what, Ora? People are
not fine! None of them! They all
have their breaking point! Believe
me!
ORA
I don’t...I would never turn you
in. Every chance I had, I told you
to go; to leave. This world is so
bad, and the more I know about It
the worse It gets. But why didn’t
you trust me enough to tell me?
KEVIN
I’m sorry...I was scared...
I’m always scared.
ORA
Where did you learn?
KEVIN
Parents, I suppose. That’s how
anyone knows, right?
ORA
You don’t know?
KEVIN
I try not to think about It. I wish
I could forget how to. All the kids
I grew up with knew how to
read...and do you see any of them
around? Yeah, me either...didn’t go
so well for them, clearly. Coming
to your village was the start of my
life as far as I’m concerned.
ORA
...I suppose I can understand that,
we all get scared sometime.
But no more keeping things from me,
okay?
KEVIN
I’m afraid of what will happen if I
say no.
ORA
Shut up, Kevin.
KEVIN
How are you feeling? When I went to
sleep you were still out.
ORA
I’m alright. I mean, my face hurts,
my back hurts, I have blood
everywhere, half the hair on my
head is gone ‘cause of that acid
stuff and the other half is matted
down with dried blood...but other
than that...
KEVIN
Point taken.
ORA
Everyone else?
KEVIN
Well...The Vigiles disappeared, so
no idea there. Karras, Formosa,
Spirit, and I brought you back here
and we set up camp.
Karras was really worried about
you... until you started snoring.
ORA
Oh, no...did I really?
KEVIN
Ha, yes. After that, he was finally
convinced you were just sleeping
and not dead.
ORA
Well, that’s good.
KEVIN
We cooked some, I got some water.
Actually, I found the stream not
too far away.
ORA
Sun’s coming up.
KEVIN
We should go back, Karras is awake
and will prob be freaking out you
aren’t there.
ORA
How do you know?
KEVIN
Hear any snoring?
ORA
Ha, right.
KEVIN
That’s the only reason I was this
far from the fire, between the two
of you...
ORA
Oh, shut up. You know, you talk in
your sleep.
KEVIN
No I don’t...really?
ORA
Oh yeah, all the time! You say
things like, “Ora, you are the
best” and, “Ora, you are a way
better fighter than me” or, “Ora, I
peed my self.”
KEVIN
Huh... well, I would argue with
you, but you are a way better
fighter than me...
ORA
Ha ha ha. Well, I’ve got to say...
just now, you defended yourself
well. It took a lot of will power
to stay mad at you and not be
impressed by how far you’ve come.
KEVIN
It’s no big deal, I’m just amazing.
I’ve always told you that.
ORA
Okay, calm down. Next time I’ll
bring a staff.
KEVIN
And next time I’ll get hurt a lot
more.
ORA
(Laughs)
SCENE BRAKE
KEVIN
Well, good morning!
FORMOSA
How...how long has the sun been up?
KEVIN
For quite a while, actually.
FORMOSA
I can’t remember the last time I
didn’t wake with It.
KEVIN
We all needed rest. Would you like
some tea? That Vorlauf guy left
some of his stuff when they ran
off. So, we have his tea!!
FORMOSA
Where are Karras and Ora? Is she
okay?
KEVIN
Physically, she’s fine; she’s
sore, but fine. She went down to
the stream a while ago to clean up
a bit. Karras would not let her go
alone ‘cause...ya’ know...he’s
Karras. He wouldn’t even let her
carry her stuff. He had to do It.
Here.
FORMOSA
Oh. Well, good. I’m glad.
KEVIN
I’m a little worried that last
battle might have broken Ora.
FORMOSA
What’s wrong?
KEVIN
Nothing! And that’s what I tried to
tell her! The undead are dead, the
Vigiles are gone, all is well!
But...she doesn’t seem to really
care. It’s that Prophecy. Oh, by
the way, there’s some food sitting
next to you. It’s not as good as
yours, but it’s mostly edible.
FORMOSA
Thank you.
FORMOSA (CONT'D)
I don’t see the harm in her looking
at the Prophecies. You’re not even
sure they’re fake. I mean...there
sure are a lot of them, but...
...and most of them seem to
contradict each other, but...
I guess I don’t really believe It,
either.
KEVIN
It’s not that I don’t believe the
land can change, I just don’t think
that something written down a long
time ago can dictate someone’s
whole life.
FORMOSA
Can anything?
KEVIN
I can. I dictate my life. And you
dictate yours.
FORMOSA
And Ora dictates hers?
KEVIN
I suppose so.
FORMOSA
My father used to say that to
believe in the Prophecy was
foolish, but he also hoped It was
true.
KEVIN
Seems contradictory.
FORMOSA
Yeah well...We just fought an army
of the living dead...the world can
be contradictory place.
KEVIN
You have a very good point there...
FORMOSA
Swords...
KARRAS
It’s me!
FORMOSA
How ya’ holdin’ up, big guy?
KARRAS
Everything hurts. But, I do like
fighting with you.
FORMOSA
We did alright, didn’t we?
KARRAS
We could maybe fight again some
time.
FORMOSA
I’d like that.
KEVIN
Ora feeling better?
KARRAS
Yes, I-I think so...she cleaned up
and then we just sat there for a
while. I think I even saw her smile
a little.
KEVIN
Well, that’s a great sign.
FORMOSA
Where is she now?
KARRAS
She’s still there, she wanted to be
alone for a little.
KEVIN
I’m surprised you let her.
(MORE)
KARRAS
She’s safe...
KEVIN
Are you sure you’re okay?
KARRAS
She is looking at the Prophecies. I
don’t like to be around them any
more...
FORMOSA
Well I...don’t think I can blame
you for that.
KARRAS
Ora asked me why I followed
Isten...
FORMOSA
And what did you say?
KARRAS
Because I was weak.
KEVIN
And she said, “Shut Up.” And pushed
you to give an actual answer and
then you said...?
KARRAS
Because he was an individual...he
had qualities I had never seen in
another person...he was
unique...and I believed in him.
FORMOSA
Those are good reasons.
KARRAS
But I was wrong...and he was not...
KEVIN
Hey, Karras...I understand. I get
It and I don’t blame you at all.
KARRAS
Oh, how could you understand? You
hated him.
KEVIN
I know...but you just told me. You
said he was unique...
KEVIN (CONT'D)
and that’s why I’ve stayed with Ora
FORMOSA
I’d say that’s why I am here,
too...
KEVIN
See? No one faults you. And you had
to do something that none of us had
to do, and most are not strong
enough to do.
KARRAS
What’s that?
KEVIN
Accept that your beliefs may have
been wrong. Isten wasn’t the Chosen
One. And-and look at everyone at
the tournament: EVERYONE was wrong,
but they would rather kill each
other then admit It.
KARRAS
(grunts)
FORMOSA
You are stronger than most!
Stronger than Kevin, certainly. He
still believes this food is edible!
KEVIN
Hey! I said, “mostly.” (laughs)
FORMOSA
Weapons.
KARRAS
Ora?
ORA
Yes...it’s me...
KEVIN
Everything alright?
ORA
We need to move!
KARRAS
What’s after you?!
ORA
Nothing!
FORMOSA
Are you in danger?
ORA
I’m fine, just come on!
FORMOSA
Wow.
ORA
I figured It out...
KEVIN
You shaved your head...
ORA
I had to...
KEVIN
I mean, I like It. I also liked the
half-shaved-kind-of-thing before,
but this is nice, too.
FORMOSA
I’m impressed. You did that
yourself?
KEVIN
Hey! Where are you...?
ORA
COME ON!!
FORMOSA
Hey.
KEVIN
Ora, wait up!!
ORA
Hurry!!
KEVIN
Where are we going?!
ORA
Carcerem.
KARRAS
Why?!
ORA
It’s original! It’s unique...
FORMOSA
What is?
ORA
The Prophecy.
KEVIN
But, there’s more than one of
them...
ORA
There are four!
KEVIN
What do you mean? We have way more
than four...
ORA
No. These four, specifically.
Once I eliminated all the versions
that didn’t have old letters, and
the copies that were written on, on
new parchment...that left me with
maybe 10 or so. But, but It still
didn’t make sense. Some had the
same lines but... but different
orders, or-or-or some had old dead
letters for some-some words but not
others. But, these...these four...
they’re the real ones!
We’ve got the one my family had for
years and years, the one in the pub
that had been there for years and
years, and this one we found at the
tournament...
FORMOSA
But that’s only three.
KEVIN
You only gave me three.
ORA
And the door...the one on the door.
I went back up there before I woke
you and copied It down.
KEVIN
But these are all different...and
... and they contradict each other.
ORA
I thought so too, but...listen...
ORA (CONT'D)
Listener of time, hear your heart,
To trust words written, not seen
before.
Day dreams.
But one door, waiting for this.
Life giving body.
Head shorn clean, cold.
Imperfect face seeing our should-be
world.
Pained at the back follows you
always close by.
Magic bursts.
Fighter will draw no more.
Savior joined by friends, Welcome.
FORMOSA
How...?
ORA
There’s a system...the gate is the
key. ”To trust words written, not
seen before.” That line only
appears on the gate, so I removed
all the repeated words...
FORMOSA
But how do you know which...?
ORA
The lines...the syllables. These
three all have lines with different
numbers of syllables, but are the
only ones that match the syllables
of the lines on the door, and we
KNOW that one is an original. It
has been guarded by an army of dead
for years.
KARRAS
Makes...sense...
ORA
If you match up the lines with the
same number of syllables and remove
the repeated words...
KEVIN
That’s why you shaved your head...
ORA
“Head shorn clean, cold.”
KARRAS
The cut on your face...
ORA
My “imperfect face”...
FORMOSA
The burns on your back...
ORA
“Pained at the back follows you
always close by.”
KEVIN
And last lines, they all go
together.
ORA
“Savior joined by
friends, Welcome.”
FORMOSA
Ora...it’s you. You’re the Chosen
One.
KARRAS
(Gasps)
ORA
I am now.
KEVIN
Ora, wait...
ORA
For Aaru.
KARRAS
YEAH!! COME ON!
FORMOSA
Go!
KEVIN
It’s...it’s working...
ORA
I...
ORA (CONT'D)
For Godrick. Ughhhhmmm!
KARRAS
For Isten.
FORMOSA
For my family.
KEVIN
For us...
ORA
Where...where is everyone?
FORMOSA
I don’t know...
KARRAS
Should... Should we go in?
KEVIN
Umm, I guess...
BIG VOICE
WHAT IS YOUR BUSINESS HERE?
ORA
Uh...h-hello?
BIG VOICE
WHAT IS YOUR BUSINESS HERE?!
ORA
We have come to help the guardians
and save the land of Aaru.
BIG VOICE
AND WHO ARE YOU?!
ORA
I...I am Ora...and I...
FORMOSA
Go on... tell them...
ORA
I am Ora and I am the Chosen One.
BIG VOICE
The Chos...Chosen One?
ORA
Uhhhh....Yes....The one to save
Aaru?
BIG VOICE
And...and you are not here to
pillage the city?
KEVIN
What?!
ORA
No! We would never do that!
BIG VOICE
Oh, thank the land!
Aleck, open the door!
SKENDER
(Laughing)
Hooray!!
ALECK
(Laughing)
OH finally!!
SKENDER
We did It,?! We did It!! Yay!!
ALECK
We did It! It worked! It worked! It
took bloody years, but It worked!!
SKENDER
Years at least! Least years, maybe
decades. Who knows. But look who It
is! Look who It is!...Who are you
again?
ALECK
Who are you?
ORA
Ora.
ALECK
Ora!!!
ORA
What...?
SKENDER
ORA! Ora.
ALECK
Ora.
SKENDER
Oh...We knew you would come! I
mean, not you,
ALECK
No, not you..
SKENDER
But someone.
ALECK
Yes someone!
SKENDER
We’ve been here for years, haven’t
we, Aleck?
ALECK
Oh dear. Oh years. I stopped
counting the years. You see,
nobody’s ever done this before. You
are truly special.
SKENDER
Yeah...
ALECK
I’m sorry but you our savior.
KEVIN
This is...weird. Where is
everybody?
FORMOSA
Where are the rest of the
guardians?!
SKENDER
Oh, it’s us!
ALECK
Surprise!
KEVIN
YOU?!
ALECK
Yes! Well, n-n-not guardians as one
would think...but the rest, anyway!
Yes, the rest anyway.
ORA
No...no, that can’t be...
SKENDER
Been here since the... since the
murders.
Oh...do you know about the
murders?!
KEVIN
Yeah..We...we heard the story.
ALECK
Yes but... have you heard the real
story?
KEVIN
Straight from the guardian’s
mouth...
SKENDER
Really!
KARRAS
What was that voice...?
SKENDER
Oh, forgive us for that. But we
didn’t really know who you were.
ALECK
No.
SKENDER
I mean, if the wrong people got
into Carcerem; someone that wished
to do harm...
ALECK
Yeah! Or, or or or, or if you were
on the side of the dark Guardi...
SKENDER
Shtum, shtum, shtum.
ALECK
Shtum.
SKENDER
You mustn’t say their names! Right?
(MORE)
ALECK
I’m so sorry. But-but look-look
look-look-look. The things inside
these walls...if they fell into the
wrong hands... And if the city were
run by the wrong people...
FORMOSA
And who are you?!
ALECK
OH!
SKENDER
OH!! Apologies! You’re our savior
and we haven’t even introduced
ourselves. Well...
ALECK
Shame on us.
SKENDER
Yeah. He is Aleck...
ALECK
‘ello...and he is Skender.
SKENDER
Please to meet you.
ALECK
We were the only two what didn’t
get cast out you see. Killed or run
away after the prot-protection
spell was cast.
FORMOSA
H-How can that be?
SKENDER
Well, we were more like servants
here.
ALECK
Servants really.
SKENDER
Yeah, yeah. When the fighting
started, we were in the kitchens.
ALECK
And-and... w-w-w.. Look-looklook...
We didn’t hurt anyone so wewe
didn’t get cast ou...
ALECK (CONT'D)
I’m sorry, cast out. You see,
pretty much all the guardians
started fighting each other and-and
they, they all got cast out. I mean
the good ones, the bad ones... It
didn’t, It didn’t matter. But,
secret...we didn’t fight, we hid.
And once things settled down, well
we didn’t have any place to go did
we...
SKENDER
(Laughing)
So we stayed! Right here!
ALECK
(Laughing)
We stayed we stayed! We fooled them
all is what we did! We didn’t move!
And, once the protection spell was
cast, most of the folks still alive
ran away think-thinking that the
city would be attacked again. I
mean that spell, really, had never
been cast before so many people
didn’t know what It actually could
do you see.
SKENDER
But, but, but we were smarter than
that. We knew that no magic could
get in. Aleck here is a genius, he
knows all about the city.
ALECK
Oh, curse of the reading class I
reckon... (Belch) ‘scuse me.
KEVIN
You can’t possibly be from back
then...
SKENDER
Oh, I know, I know, I know we don’t
look It, but time works a little
differently inside the walls of the
city.
ORA
W-wh-What about the Prophecy?! I-I
collected all of them!
Every...Every single Prophecy!
SKENDER
(Laughing)
You See?! I told you!! I told you
the Prophecy would work!!
ALECK
(Laughing)
That’s our handy work. That is our
handy work!
FORMOSA
Wait, you two wrote them?
ALECK
Ohhh, did you like them? Oh see, I
had help from some of the poetry bobooks
we have...and, you know, the
one on the front gate.
KEVIN
Wait! Stop! Just wait! Hold on!
Shut up! Why would you do that??
SKENDER
What do you mean? Hope. That’s all
everything is for. Hope.
KARRAS
You better explain. Fast.
ALECK
Hang on, hang on. We were trapped,
and and there was a dead army
outside an-an and It gave us hope
that someone might come save us you
see.
SKENDER
So we thought...we can’t let evil
win, we should fight back! Right?
But then we figured out that we
can’t fight back...
KARRAS
Because you are cowards!
SKENDER
RIGHT! That’s what we came to
realize!
ORA
I don't understand.
ALECK
Well, we knew we couldn’t beat the
dark guardians, but we couldn’t
depend on anyone else to do It,
either could we? See, well
generally speaking, people are
cowards aren’t they. They’re...
They’re cowards because they’re
scared. And they’re scared
because... well they don't think
they can win. So we wrote a bunch
of letters and such and we... we
sent them out all over.
SKENDER
Yeah, we used birds, catapults,
sewage lines...really anything we
could think of to get them out of
here.
ALECK
Correct! We figured who doesn’t
want to be the Chosen One? So we
hoped they might give someone the
courage to rise up and save us!
SKENDER
And It worked!! It worked.
ORA
But I figured out how they combine
to form a single Prophecy! I’m the
Chosen One. I am the Prophecy!
SKENDER
Well...uh... Forgive me, but I’m
not sure what you mean. I mean, we
made a bunch of different versions,
we thought well...surely someone
would fit one of them.
ORA
How’d I open the door then? It
wouldn’t open before. It wouldn’t
open for others!
ALECK
Well...umm...there was a dark
undead army surrounding us, you
see? So, we weren’t about to unlock
the door with all that happening. I
mean I’m not stupid.
SKENDER
No no, we are not stupid.
ORA
(Gasping)
I...I can’t breath...
KEVIN
Ora?!
ORA
Are you telling me all of this, all
of - everything we went through.
All of It was just --
SKENDER
To free us! Yes! And you did!
ORA
And these pieces of paper? These
Prophecies??
SKENDER
Well, since we made them up,
they’re... They’re, they’re not
real.
ORA
I...I...
FORMOSA
Ora!
KARRAS
I got her.
SPIRIT
(Neighs)
KEVIN
Spirit?! What...?
ORA
(gasping for air)
I... I can’t...
FORMOSA
Breath! Ora, just breath...
ORA
I can’t...
KEVIN
Spirit, what’s wrong?
ALECK
Awww, don’t be so sad. Here, have a
pint! (Laugh)
SKENDER
Have a pint! (Laugh)
SCENE TRANSITION
VORLAUF
(as a war cry)
FOR VOW AND CODE!
VIGILES
FOR VOW AND CODE!!
END OF EPISODE 31
END OF SEASON