Keeper - "No one knows why, and know one knows what for sure. Only that their tale lies close to the heart of this land."
Morgan - "And the book ?"
Keeper - "I've never looked ! It isn't wise to poke into every fantastical curiosity. It could only lead to fantastical strife."
Morgan - "So ... you don't just ... get curious and look things up."
Keeper - Staring a moment confused behind a classic guard stance, nearly offended, "No." Then accusingly, "Did you ?"
She swings hard, then voiced over into the next scene, across the beach where Mariko and Akari sit alone.
Keeper - (over the scene) Cruelly with the sound of their blades grinding, "All that is known is that they cannot be separated."
Akari pokes Mariko in her annoyed face, "Boop !"
Mariko turns to her and smiles under her mask.
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The market and surrounding village gathers regarding the Eden as it stands, appearing to regard them. It backs into the water, settling to a float. Eve steps from the cabin and dives into the water, swimming to and walking ashore.
Eve - Looking around, she bows to the well dressed man. "これらは良い人です。 彼らは遠くの戦いと戦う。 それは良い戦いです。 しかし、彼らは銃のために粉が必要で、多くの金を持っています。"
Bows again.
The well dressed man in front nods suspiciously and turns to the central market path leading to the palace, followed by guards mixed with crowd. She then nods to the otherwise unseen spirits watching, sitting aside from the crowd.
Akari smiles back and waves while Mariko looks away.
Eleanore - Disembarking with Virginia and joining Lilith at the dock, "That's useful."
Miranda - Lands on the beach from a splash, raining them. After slurping a fish tail, "That fish was really shiny !"
She sees Virginia staring angrily wet and moves away a bit, then the crowd staring, she draws back and leaps back into the water.
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Akari - "I think they should be like pirates ..."
She smiles dreaming distantly on the empty beach.
Akari - "With amazing boats we've never seen before and they should be fighting a far away battle ... but it's for good."
Her smile turns mischievous ...
Akari - "But they need powder for their guns ..." She looks at Mariko very seriously. "We should help them."
Mariko looks at her like she's crazy, then they laugh as they rise to scurry after the guard. Soldiers works through the crowd, separating the crew from the people, hilts in hand, setting up powder launchers used to ignite ships.
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Naamah and One sit in the map room of the Nautilus, Naamah reads with her feet on the round, One studies the globe.
One - Without looking up, tuning his glass, "Aren't you going ashore ?"
Naamah - Cuts and turns the pages, "No ... they'll be fine ... or not ..."
One - "Yes ..." He moves the globe a bit, then focuses his glass.
Naamah - "You ? I'm sure you must have some sort of ... 'shore leave' saved up ..."
He glances at her, then back.
One - "Why ... ? Our stores are three quarter plus ... full reserves still from the old hull load ..."
Naamah - Cut's and turns, giggles reading, and then, "Indeed."
Without looking up, she slides the bottle across to him.
Naamah - "I've got twenty-one pages left."
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Morgan's crow sits at the window of a high perched shanty at Tortuga, more beneath and all around, platforms being built ...
Lilith - (voiced over) " 'Admiral' Morgan. Love the hat."
Inside
where Morgan reads, she self consciously takes off her (large) new
admiral's hat and puts it on the table, picking back up the letter.
She
looks back up at the hat and puts it back on.
Lilith - "We
followed the craft to the island where indeed Razil was found. We're
joined by Eleanore Dare, and her infant daughter Virginia, she says
hello, as does Miranda."
Morgan looks up a moment, then to the side with arched brow.
Morgan - "Um. Hi back ... ?"
The crow crackles.
Lilith
- "And the one you feared was there, was. The island is lost,
Morgan. Razil, unknown. Know is that Yaltabaoth was able to turn Leviathan. As we were
predictably joined by Naamah, she guarded us well. Or perhaps just the
book."
"As for the craft we tracked, it would appear to
have become overgrown from Eden's seed, and possibly intelligent. Eve
follows inside, alone and safe."
"We've begun sighting the appropriate birds past India and
approach inland now as planned,"
Morgan unravels a map and slams her knife in one end and the bottle on the other to hold it.
Lilith - "As it turns China and Korea are at war right now and their battle surrounds the peninsula."
Morgan stares ... then takes up the bottle, the map raveling.
Lilith - "And so we make our way to Japan."
Morgan exhales into an intentional calming ...
Lilith - "Your ever loyal subordinate who adores receiving orders in short sentences while she thinks about her at night, Lilith."
Morgan looks up shocked at the crow, the crow, the crow looks back. She furrows her brow and looks to the side.
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The crew unloads the gold reserves, while guards stand firm in their wall between them and the market ...
