ELIZABETH
KEVIN
Aaaaah! Ma’am, can you please turn
off the light?! I can’t see!!
ELIZABETH
Who the hell are you?
ORA
You don’t know us, but--
ELIZABETH
No, I don’t. I’m very busy.
Goodbye.
KEVIN
What was that?! Wh-What just
happened? I still can’t see!
ORA
I don’t know. Put the Prophecy away
before something else happens.
KEVIN
Done and...uh...Done.
You know, I’m starting to think you
might be right. This whole town is
crazy.
KEVIN (CONT'D)
Welp, can’t say we didn’t try.
ORA
Stop It. Come on. I mean, look at
that crest carved into the door.
This has to be the place!
KEVIN
So, now she’s all in. What happened
to “I don’t want to risk this poor
woman’s life”?
ORA
Look, I told you pissing people off
is the best way to get them to do
things, and now...I’m pissed.
Are you Elizabeth Gregg?
ELIZABETH (O.S.)
Could be. I could be anyone. Go
away!
KEVIN
That’s actually a really good
point. Oww!
ORA
Would you focus for a second?! This
is important.
We think we have something that
belongs to you. From your family?
From Godrick?
ELIZABETH
What about Godrick?
ORA
Well, I’m sorry to say this, but
ummm...we have a medallion that
we...uh....he-he...
ELIZABETH
Quick get inside. Stop standing out
there
KEVIN
What about that dogs?
ELIZABETH
What dogs? Oh, that was just my
bird. Come in! Hurry!
ORA
Your...bird?
KEVIN
What was that? Did you hear that?
ELIZABETH
No.
ORA
I wasn’t listening. I was
distracted...by all the...things.
KEVIN
Gary wasn’t lying about how much
stuff she has.
ORA
Quiet.
This is, uh...quite a place. You’ve
accumulated quite a collection of
interesting items over the years.
KEVIN
OUCH! Hnnnng,
ELIZABETH
Careful!!!
KEVIN
My shin!
ELIZABETH
Watch where you’re going!
KEVIN
It’s worse than your staff.
I can barley see anything. Oh! May
I light this... Ugh... I think your
lantern’s broken.
ELIZABETH
Give me that! Is that any way to
enter an old woman’s house? Runnin’
into things and grabbin’ what you
please?
KEVIN
Sorry.
ELIZABETH
What do you want with me? As I
said, I’m very busy.
ORA
Was Godrick Gregg your nephew? You
see...Our families...his family and
mine...were close. And Godrick told
me to come see you, and that you
lived in Shadow Run.
KEVIN
...or “The Bog of Faces,” as I like
to call It.
ORA
Godrick...uhm...wanted you to have
this.
ELIZABETH
(sighs)
No, he didn’t.
ORA
Well...
(MORE)
ELIZABETH
How did he die?
ORA
It... ummm... he was...
KEVIN
Vigile attack... How did you know
he died?
ELIZABETH
It’s the only way this would have
come back to me without him.
His mother met the same fate?
ORA
So you are his aunt?
ELIZABETH
His great aunt. On his mother’s
side.
ORA
Did you know Godrick?
ELIZABETH
Never met him, but I knew who he
was. Our family had to...disperse
before he was born. Gathering
together now It... well It isn’t
something we’re able to do very
often.
ORA
Why not?
ELIZABETH
Well, at the time It was not...It
was not prudent to keep the family
together. And these days, traveling
is not the way It was. Things used
to be different. Before the
Guardians disappeared, we were
happy.
ORA
The Guardians?
ELIZABETH
We were at peace with our
neighbors. We were safe.
My sisters and I would play
together without fear of anything.
ELIZABETH (CONT'D)
We would dream up the most
imaginative things. You see this
design?
ORA & KEVIN
Mmm-hmmm.
ELIZABETH
My youngest sister drew It.
She loved to draw.
KEVIN
Where is she now?
ELIZABETH
Oh, she’s long dead. Died same way
as Godrick, sounds like.
ORA
The Vigiles?
ELIZABETH
Yes. She was 14. One day they
came...we’d never seen them before,
we couldn’t have known...and not a
Guardian in sight.
ORA
I knew It. The Guardians are real!
ELIZABETH
Well...they were, but they left
us...
Then the Vigiles started running
everything and I haven’t seen any
of my family since.
ORA
But, what happened to your family?
ELIZABETH
They had thought my little sister
was magic... weather It was true or
not, once they took her It was only
a matter of time before they came
for us...My eldest sister,
Godrick’s grandmother, ran one way
and I ran the other. Our parents
stayed behind...thinking It might
throw the Vigiles off the scent.
KEVIN
Why were they after you?
ELIZABETH
Fear. At the heart of all evil
things...it’s always fear. Fear of
life, fear of death...fear of
difference. We were known to be
kind to the idea of Magic. Forced
me to give up everything and
everyone...
I imagine that’s why I hold on to
so many things.
KEVIN
Why could you just go back?
ELIZABETH
Even to this day, decades later, we
are being watched. I still have the
odd young fighter who has heard
some story show up at my door. It
happens less then It used to, but
they never find anything and
usually regret It. That’s why we
never go back. To protect each
other.
ORA
What’s the crest mean on the
amulet?
ELIZABETH
Oh, nothing. My sister always
wanted our family to have this long
mysterious past, so we made one up.
And this was our “secret family
crest” we used to identify
ourselves, if needed.
KEVIN
If that’s true, then why did
Godrick think It was so important?
ELIZABETH
I don’t know. I mean its important
to me I suppose but no one else
would care. It is nice however, to
know that he cared enough to get It
back to me. It’s good to feel like
you still have family.
KEVIN
I wish I new that feeling.
Ow! Sorry.
ORA
So you hadn’t seen your family in
years?
ELIZABETH
Oh, we would send letters
sometimes. Just notes now and then
letting one another know we were
still holding on. My sister had a
family and I would hear from her
every so often, but her last
message was blank, just a folded
scrap of paper with another, nearly
identical amulet - her’s. Well, I
knew what had happened.
KEVIN
Ummm... Look I got to ask. What is
that thing? That can’t be the bird
you mentioned!
ELIZABETH
Oh, him? That’s Chauncy. He’s an
ethologus. They live for hundreds
of years.
He only behaves for...certain
people.
ORA
Really? Hundreds of years?
KEVIN
So...this “bird” was the thing
barking at us?
ELIZABETH
He’s good at impressions...
CHUANCY
(as Elizabeth)
He’s good at impressions...
KEVIN
Wait what...
CHUANCY
(Squawks)
KEVIN
Are we really supposed to believe
that that bird is...
CHUANCY
(Squawks)
(MORE)
KEVIN
Aaaa! AAAA!! Get him off!
CHUANCY
(Squawks)
KEVIN
Get him off! Get him off. Get him
off. Get him off now. Aaaa...
ELIZABETH
Ethologi can live hundreds of
years. Some even longer.
He must like you...uh...I’m sorry,
what was your name?
KEVIN
Kevin.
ELIZABETH
Really... Kevin?... Ha! Too Bad
CHUANCY
(Squawks)
(as Elizabeth)
Too Bad.
KEVIN
Hey, listen, I’ve had a rough
couple days. And don’t need It from
you, too, BIRD!
ORA
Why did the Guardians leave?
ELIZABETH
Ehh...they didn’t just leave...not
exactly....or perhaps they did.
Nobody knows for sure what
happened, but there did come a
point where even the magic of a
guardian was so feared that they
them selves were attacked in one
way or another. There’s lots of
theories.
ELIZABETH (CONT'D)
(MORE)
In the years leading up to the
Guardians’ disappearance, there
were those who grew suspicious as
to why they looked after us,
believing that the Guardians were
driven by some dark motive; some
say those doubts are what drove
them away. Others say they still
live among us, in hiding. Some
believe they’re all but extinct,
it’s even been whispered that
they’re all trapped and imprisoned
somewhere far away. It’s all just
rumor and hearsay at this point.
CHUANCY
(Squawks)
KEVIN
(laugh)
ORA
Do you know how we could get them
back?
ELIZABETH
My dear, if I did, would I be
sitting here talking to you? Many
have spent years looking, many
others have died in the pursuit.
ORA
Well...I think I might have some
clues...
ELIZABETH
Yes, yes, yes. I'm sure you do. The
Prophecy, right?
KEVIN
Right!....Er...wrong?
CHUANCY
(Squawks)
KEVIN
Oh great....
ELIZABETH
The Prophecy has been around since
the Guardians disappeared. I tried
to believe It. I wanted to believe.
ELIZABETH (CONT'D)
(MORE)
I poured over every line, studying
and searching, but that was many
lifetimes ago.
ORA
I thought Godrick was the Chosen
One. In the Prophecy. Sent to
restore the land to its former
glory.
ELIZABETH
Aw. Aw, That’s sweet. If he was,
then what happened to him is all
the more tragic.
KEVIN
...or maybe that wasn’t the real
Prophecy.
Is this the real one?
ELIZABETH
This the Prophecy from the pub?
KEVIN
Hey. How did you read It so fast?
ELIZABETH
My boy, I have been around far
longer then the fear of reading;
I’ve read many a tome in my time.
ORA
When the Vigiles in the pub saw us
looking at It, they just made fun
of us.
ELIZABETH
It’s for the best. This scroll has
been hanging in the pub for 50
years. The longer It sits there,
the more of a joke It becomes.
Precious few of them, know how to
read It, fewer still place any
stock in It.
ORA
Do you go to the pub a lot?
ELIZABETH
What? Ha, No! I wouldn’t waste my
time. Getting drunk and yelling at
my neighbors isn’t my idea of a
good time.
ELIZABETH (CONT'D)
(MORE)
Something about that place brings
out the very worst in people. It’s
no way to act.
But I know what goes on in there. I
know what goes on almost
everywhere. As a matter of fact,
something happened in that pub just
last week that might be of interest
to you...
SCENE BRAKE
MOBSTER #1
YOU CHEATED!
ISTEN
I did no such thing. Now give me
the Prophecy! I deserve It! It’s me
that It speaks of. It’s practically
my life’s story!
MOBSTER #3
(Laughing)
First we would truly have to
believe you can read, and second I
doubt It says the Chosen One’s a
grifter!
MOBSTER #2
Come now! We should be more
hospitable to our guest. You must
excuse us, Chosen One. We’ve been
waiting years for you to show your
face. After all this time, we can
certainly excuse a wee bit of
rooking.
ISTEN
Well...good!
Here I am: Isten! Your Chosen One!
CROWD
(Cheers)
ISTEN
Take your hands off me!
MOBSTER #2
Oooooo, I’m so sorry Chosen One.
I’m certain you pass all the tests!
This calls for a toast!
MOBSTER #2 (CONT'D)
Another drink!! Bring anther drink
of our town’s libation!!
MOBSTER #3
Oh Oh, I’ll get It, let me get It.
Let me, let me get It. Let me get
It.
ISTEN
A...another one?
MOBSTER #2
Oh my dear boy, that first one was
a congratulations, this one is a
toast! Now, how ‘bout a speech?
CROWD
(Cheers)
ISTEN
I am Isten! All hail to me!! I saw
worth unseen. I have given out
deaths toll, I alone shall draw
fire!!!! So sayeth the Prophecy! I
am Isten, the Chosen One. And...
MOBSTER #3
Here, here, Drink this. Drink up
chosen one.
ISTEN
and...I don't need a toast!
MOBSTER #3
You refuse us? You refuse our
hospitality? A prophet would never
insult us in such a way.
MOBSTER #1
Go ahead...“prophet”.
ISTEN
Yes... Yes... Of corse.
MOBSTER #1
To you!
To Isten!!
THE CROWD
To Isten!!
MOBSTER #2
May the world be saved by the
prophet!
THE CROWD
To the Prophet!
ISTEN
TO ME!! THE PROPHET!!
CROWD
(Laugh)
MOBSTER #1
Insults! FALSE. PROPHET.
MOBSTER #3
You’re not welcome in Shadow Run!
MOBSTER #2
On your way then! Back to Yarmouth
Valley!
ISTEN
AGAIN!
Fill It again!
MOBSTER #1
Again?
CROWD
(laughs)
ISTEN
Again, I say!
MOBSTER #2
As you wish, but to insult us twice
is an offense we don't take
lightly, even if you are the Chosen
One.
ISTEN
Again.
To me!
Ah!
I show you no insults, and now the
Prophecy is m... (BLAH)
MOBSTER #1
Hu...Impressive.
MOBSTER #3
Mr. Prophet...?
MOBSTER #2
Well, I’d say he’s made the world a
better place.
MOBSTERS
(Laugh)
MOBSTER #1
Hey, let’s send the One on his way
to Yarmouth. But first, he’ll need
to sleep It off. I hear the manure
pile behind the stables is very
comfortable...
CROWD
(laugh)
SCENE BRAKE
ELIZABETH
As I say, that pub brings out the
worst in people.
ORA
But that man, he said he did
everything in that Prophecy. That
he was the Chosen One. Is that
right?
ELIZABETH
Perhaps.
ORA
Can you tell us what this Prophecy
really says?
ELIZABETH
You can’t read?
ORA
Only a little, I don’t understand
most of It.
ELIZABETH
All Hail to you, hear me and say.
Chosen by the self, seeing worth
unseen.
Cast back, follow a dead brother at
home now.
No door stops our fated dream.
Moves nature.
Giving out deaths toll.
To shorn nature.
This Day.
Will draw fire alone.
Find thy destiny within this rhyme.
Joined
ORA
I...can’t believe It. I was wrong.
It was all wrong.
KEVIN
It’s not your fault.
ORA
What are you talking about?! It’s
all my fault.
ELIZABETH
Ora, what is It? What’s going on?
ORA
Godrick...Godrick...he didn’t have
a dead brother. He did not choose
him self, or move nature. If this
is the real Prophecy, I led him
astray. I got him killed! And...
And for nothing!
KEVIN
No you didn’t! Stop saying that!
ORA
I was so stupid, everybody was
right.
ELIZABETH
I thought the Vigiles...
KEVIN
They killed his parents, but Ora
saved Godrick.
ORA
And then I convinced him he was the
One. I convinced him to go on this
stupid quest and he died. He DIED!
(Crying)
ELIZABETH
Ora, come here, child. Shhh. Did
you plunge a blade through his
heart?
ORA
What?! No!
ELIZABETH
Did you poison him? Kill him while
he slept?
ORA
Of course not! It was an
accident...
ELIZABETH
An accident.
ORA
But if I hadn’t talked him into
going, he would still be alive!
ELIZABETH
Oh, perhaps or perhaps not. Perhaps
fate had a plan of her own. You
were so willing to believe in
destiny so long as It bent to your
desire, but destiny cares little
for the wants of man. You may not
like It, but that accident was
Godrick’s destiny. Just as It was
our destiny to meet here this
evening. All of our paths were set
in motion eons before any of us
drew breath. Shhhhh...
You’re no more to blame for
Godrick’s death than I am. Shhhh
Feel better?
ORA
I...yes? If Godrick wasn’t the
Chosen One, then... Then maybe...
I’m sorry. I...it’s just a lot.
ELIZABETH
Oh, don't be sorry. A good cry is
the sign of a strong heart. It’s
one of the two best healing things.
KEVIN
What’s the other one?
ELIZABETH
Stabbing those who deserve It.
Ideally in the eyes.
ORA
(laughs)
CHUANCY
(Squawks)
ORA
I’ll remember that.
KEVIN
You’re good...
ELIZABETH
Okay, now let me see the other
Prophecy you say you saw, the first
one. I assume you have It with you?
Where did you find this one?
ORA
My family has had It since I can
remember.
ELIZABETH
Hmmm, I see. I’d guess it’s just as
old as the other one, but I can’t
say I can put much faith in either.
ORA
So... You don’t believe It?
ELIZABETH
It doesn’t matter.
ORA
How can It not matter? Either we
can save guardians or we can’t. If
not, then I’ve been wasting my
time.
ELIZABETH
Have you now? Believing a better
world is possible seems far from a
waste of time.
KEVIN
But does that mean Godrick wasn’t
the Chosen One?
ELIZABETH
Perhaps not.
CHUANCY
(as Isten)
Here I am: Isten! Your Chosen One!
ELIZABETH
Maybe this Isten fellow is the
Chosen One. Maybe he’s not. It’s up
to you whether you want to believe
in It or not.
ORA
But, you don’t. Why should I?
ELIZABETH
Oh, you’re too young not to believe
in things. Don’t you think the
world would be a better place if
the Prophecy came true?
ORA
Of course.
ELIZABETH
Then make It come true. Find the
Chosen One and help them to fulfill
their destiny.
CHUANCY
(Squawks)
KEVIN
Oh! Can I take Chauncy?
ELIZABETH
Absolutely not. Although It is
interesting how much he seems to
like you.
ORA
Kevin, you don’t have to come if
you don’t want to. You only agreed
to come this far.
KEVIN
You don’t want me to come with you?
ORA
Well, obviously, I’d like you to.
But, you’ve still got so much
training left to do and we’ve
already cheated death on more than
one occasion. If you wanted out, I
would understand.
KEVIN
But what if this is my destiny?
ELIZABETH
It’s not Chauncy, but hopefully
it’ll bring you some luck.
KEVIN
Oh, ha its a bird! Wow. Thank you.
ELIZABETH
A friend of the Greggs. That’s what
It says on there. I’m guessing you
can’t read.
KEVIN
Why do you guess that?
ORA
Kevin, we both know you can’t read.
KEVIN
Yeah, I know... but I like to think
that I look like I could...
ELIZABETH
Ora, you’ll want to keep an eye out
for Vigiles on the way to Yarmouth
Valley.
ORA
We’d better get going then. We’ve
got a long walk ahead of us.
ELIZABETH
Nonsense. Sit. Stay here for the
night. I’ll make sure you are well
rested and well fed before you set
out.
KEVIN
(Yawn)
That’s probably a good idea.
ELIZABETH
(Whistles)
CHUANCY
(Squawks)
ELIZABETH
Chauncy catch!
I’ll put a kettle on. Make
yourselves as home.
CHUANCY
(Purrs)
ORA
Seriously, Kevin. You don’t have to
come.
KEVIN
When we find the Chosen One, I’ll
go home. But in the meantime, I’m
still gonna’ need you to teach me
to fight.
ORA
Ugh!
KEVIN
Woah.
ORA
Impressive. We may make a fighter
out of you yet.
END OF EPISODE 7