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[dramatic music playing]
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[narrator] Another world.
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Another time. Another age.
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Thra...
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a wondrous planet circling three suns.
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And at its center, the Crystal of Truth,
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the heart of Thra
and the source of all life.
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Since the land was young,
Aughra protected the Crystal...
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for she knew that the Crystal...
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[creature calling]
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...connected all the creatures of Thra.
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But closest to her heart
were the Gelfling.
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Seven clans of Gelfling call Thra home.
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From the proud Vapra
in the mountain city of Ha'rar...
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the most cultured of the Gelfling,
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who rule over the Seven Clans...
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to the fierce Stonewood,
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who dwell in the Endless Forest,
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renowned for their prowess in battle...
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and the gentle Grottan,
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who live deep beneath the ground...
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in perfect harmony with all of Thra,
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forgotten by the world above.
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For uncounted millennia,
all of Thra existed in perfect balance.
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But then, new beings came,
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not of Thra.
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The Skeksis.
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They bewitched Aughra
with stories of the Universe
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and built her an orrery...
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so that she might discover the mysteries
of the Cosmos for herself.
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And so, Aughra turned her eye
to the stars...
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and entrusted the Crystal of Truth...
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to the Skeksis.
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[clanking]
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[tittering]
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Almost a thousand trine have passed
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since the Skeksis declared themselves
Lords of Thra.
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[banging staff]
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[growling]
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Now, once again,
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the Skeksis gather in secret
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as another day dawns...
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to steal life from the Crystal
they have sworn to protect.
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[Skeksis growling, grunting]
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Ahh!
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So they may replenish themselves.
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Cheat death...
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- [moaning]
- ...by harnessing the power
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of their treasure.
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Their prize.
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Their prisoner.
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The Dark Crystal.
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[Dark Crystal vibrating]
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- [vibrating stops]
- [Skeksis gasping]
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- [groaning]
- Hm?
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[growls]
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The Crystal fails us once again.
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[Collector] Well, what did you expect?
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Nothing yesterday, nothing the day before.
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Why? Why does this happen?
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Just look at the Crystal!
We've taken too much! Ha!
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It's gluttony!
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Pure gluttony! Oh...
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- [growling] Pathetic!
- Huh?
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[Emperor]
You sound like frightened Podlings.
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But, Emperor,
if the Crystal will not give,
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we will die.
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- [all shuddering]
- Die! Die!
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- [grunting]
- Huh?
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Never!
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We have nothing to fear.
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Already a solution lies
within the Scientist's very grasp.
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- Is that not so?
- Uh.. uh...
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Our mighty Emperor speaks true.
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I am hard at work
on this troublesome inconvenience, yes.
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[Emperor]
Patience. We are Lords of the Crystal.
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We have ruled for an age
and will rule for all ages yet to come.
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- We are eternal!
- [all Skeksis] Yes.
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- Eternal.
- Eternal.
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Mm-hmm.
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Now, go.
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[Scroll-Keeper] The Emperor is wise.
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Emperor, Emperor...
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- Emperor!
- Yes, what?
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I... I would not dare
question your wisdom,
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but you know I have found no solution.
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Ah.
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The Crystal is the heart of Thra.
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They are one and the same.
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But the more we take, the less it gives.
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All our survival is at stake!
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- [growling]
- [shrieking]
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So, find a solution.
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[whimpering]
Of course, Emperor. Forgive me.
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[sighing]
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I did not build an empire
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only to watch it turn to dust.
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[grumbling]
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I will find the answer, Emperor.
You will see!
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I will not fail you! I will not fail you!
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Hmm...
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[groaning]
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[loud electrical discharge]
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[machines clanking]
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[narrator] The Gelfling know nothing
of the Skeksis' crimes.
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[gears turning]
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The truth must come to light.
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The fires of rebellion must be lit.
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And a new age must begin.
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The Crystal of Truth has been corrupted.
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That corruption spreads through Thra
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and into its creatures.
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Even the ones
locked in the Skeksis' cages,
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captives...
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[squeaking]
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[cages rattling]
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...until today.
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[scurrying]
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[hissing]
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[upbeat music playing]
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[groaning]
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Uh...
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[speaking Podling language]
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[cart wheels squeaking]
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[grunting]
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[clearing throat]
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- Rian!
- So...
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hello again.
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[speaking Podling language]
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- Easy, friends.
- [speaking Podling language]
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It's my sworn duty as a castle guard
to keep the lords safe.
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- How do I know these aren't poisoned?
- [gasping]
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- Well, there's only one way to find out.
- No!
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[speaking Podling language]
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I'm sure the lords wouldn't mind
if a few went missing.
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After all, the Skeksis are generous.
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And you have to admit,
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these do look tasty.
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Hm... [speaking Podling language]
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Psst. Hey.
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[speaking Podling language]
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[continues speaking Podling language]
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- [yelping]
- [yelling in Podling language]
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I didn't take anything! See?
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- [speaking Podling language]
- [giggling]
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- You don't have to be rude.
- Mira, run!
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[Mira] Thank you!
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[yelling in Podling language]
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- See you tomorrow!
- [laughing] Let's get out of here.
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[Rian laughing]
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- Did you see those Podlings' faces?
- [Mira] It's almost too easy.
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They never seem to learn.
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[laughing]
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- Race you to the Spy Glass!
- Last one there's a flat-footed Nebrie!
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[both laughing]
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[wings flapping]
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Uh...
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Huh? [chuckling]
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Made it. [panting]
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- Hello!
- [wings fluttering]
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[exhaling]
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- There you are. I was afraid you got lost.
- [panting]
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- You cheated.
- I win again.
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You won because you have wings.
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Course I do. I'm a girl.
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- And you're a flat-footed Nebrie.
- [groaning]
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[Mira chuckling]
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[Rian sighs]
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Do you remember
the first time we came up here?
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[chuckling]
How could I forget?
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Show me.
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You mean... dreamfast?
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Yes! I mean...
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if you wanted to.
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- Well, uh... I do if you do.
- Yes.
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- I want to dreamfast.
- Oh, good.
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I do too.
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[exhaling]
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[dramatic music playing]
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[whooshing]
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[Rian]
I remember everything about that night.
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I was so nervous.
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[Mira] I could tell.
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[Rian] I used every trick I had
to try and impress you.
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- [Mira] You certainly did try.
- [grunting, laughing]
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[Rian] I was distracted.
All I could think about was kissing you.
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[Mira] And I got sick of waiting.
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So I kissed you.
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[hissing]
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[gasping]
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- Mira!
- Wait, what...
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Must've snuck in.
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[grunting]
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An Arathim soldier
wouldn't risk entering the castle.
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Well, that one is!
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Then we have to tell the captain.
Come on.
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[panting]
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Remember your oath.
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We protect the lords.
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The lords protect the Crystal.
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When one of us fails in our duty,
we all fail!
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[all] By the Crystal!
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Positions!
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[Collector] Another trine,
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another wretched carriage ride to Ha'rar,
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another interminable tithing ceremony.
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I enjoy the Gelfling capital.
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I think it possesses
a certain malodorous charm.
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[groaning]
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Oh, that mountain air
plays havoc with my pustules.
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[Scroll-Keeper]
Well, I have read of a Grottan potus
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that might offer some relief.
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- [Collector] It's pointless.
- Shoo! Shoo!
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- [Podlings yelping]
- [Collector]They always come back.
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Always! [sneezing]
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Oh, dear.
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- [Ordon] Bring in the Armaligs!
- That was a long one.
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- [Armaligs growling]
- [speaking Podling language]
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- [castle guard 1] Get a move on!
- [Podlings laughing]
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[Armalig snorting]
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[castle guard 1] Secure that Landstrider!
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- [castle guard 2] Load up the weapons!
- [castle guard 3] Secure the harness!
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[panting]
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- Captain Ordon!
- We need to talk to you.
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It can wait.
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Plans have changed. I will now escort
the lords to Ha'rar personally.
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- Huh?
- You're leaving?
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Mm-hm.
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Then you need a Gelfling
to lead the guard while you're gone!
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Yes. A Gelfling who has excelled
in all the drills.
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A Gelfling who has spent his whole life
in the castle.
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A Gelfling who respects tradition.
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- That's why I chose Tolyn.
- [Mira] Huh?
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Tolyn?
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- Really?
- Hm...
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But I'm ready!
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[Ordon] It's a job for a soldier,
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not childlings who steal treats
when they should be on patrol.
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- [speaking Podling language]
- Tattletales.
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[Podling cackling]
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- That was just a bit of fun.
- That's all it ever is with you.
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Perhaps one day you'll prove worthy
of taking up my mantle.
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- But, Father...
- Captain.
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[sighing]
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Yes, Captain.
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- [sighs]
- [Collector] What's the hold up?
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Ah... the second brother is in its zenith.
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Let us be gone! [panting]
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Yes. Saddle up!
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Captain Ordon, please.
Before you go...
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So, we saw...
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What did you see? Make it quick.
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Uh...
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- Uh...
- Go on. Tell him, Rian.
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It can wait.
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Safe travels, Captain.
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Remember your oath.
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[castle guard]
Ready the captain's Landstrider!
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[growling, gurgling]
260
00:13:43,572 --> 00:13:45,950
The lords are due in Ha'rar by sundown.
261
00:13:46,450 --> 00:13:47,451
We march!
262
00:13:47,535 --> 00:13:48,994
- [Landstrider bellowing]
- Hiyah!
263
00:13:49,829 --> 00:13:52,498
- [wheels rolling]
- [solemn music playing]
264
00:13:58,128 --> 00:14:00,089
[Ordon] Come on! Come on!
265
00:14:08,222 --> 00:14:10,140
[Landstriders bellowing]
266
00:14:10,224 --> 00:14:14,895
- [solemn music continues]
- [Landstriders galloping]
267
00:14:26,198 --> 00:14:27,908
[rumbling]
268
00:14:30,786 --> 00:14:31,662
I'm sorry, Rian.
269
00:14:31,745 --> 00:14:33,455
[sighing] That's all right.
270
00:14:34,039 --> 00:14:36,166
Why didn't you tell him about the Spitter?
271
00:14:36,917 --> 00:14:38,294
Since the day I was born,
272
00:14:38,377 --> 00:14:40,504
I've had to listen
to stories of my father.
273
00:14:40,671 --> 00:14:43,215
Ordon, hero of Stone-in-the-Wood.
274
00:14:43,424 --> 00:14:45,551
Ordon the Spitter Slayer?
275
00:14:45,634 --> 00:14:46,886
I think it's past time
276
00:14:46,969 --> 00:14:50,598
my father had to listen
to a few stories about his son.
277
00:14:50,973 --> 00:14:53,017
You want to go Spitter hunting?
278
00:14:53,100 --> 00:14:56,186
Well, how else can I prove myself
to the Great Ordon, eh?
279
00:14:56,645 --> 00:14:58,355
[Podlings speaking]
280
00:14:58,439 --> 00:14:59,940
Settle down.
281
00:15:01,025 --> 00:15:02,192
Care to join me?
282
00:15:03,319 --> 00:15:07,197
Of course.
But we're going to need some help.
283
00:15:07,406 --> 00:15:09,074
[chewing on food]
284
00:15:09,408 --> 00:15:12,161
Have you tried these? They're fantastic.
285
00:15:12,661 --> 00:15:13,661
Hm...
286
00:15:14,413 --> 00:15:15,413
Gurjin.
287
00:15:15,748 --> 00:15:16,748
Sure.
288
00:15:17,458 --> 00:15:21,086
- How's my best friend today?
- What? What? What do you want?
289
00:15:30,763 --> 00:15:32,973
Where is that book? Agh.
290
00:15:33,641 --> 00:15:35,976
Mm, mm,
must be around here somewhere.
291
00:15:36,310 --> 00:15:38,437
- Ah! There it is!
- [creature squeaking]
292
00:15:38,771 --> 00:15:42,399
No, that's not it.
Just a moment, Princess!
293
00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:45,903
[creature squealing, tearing paper]
294
00:15:50,950 --> 00:15:52,493
Hm...
295
00:16:05,547 --> 00:16:07,549
[creature squeaking]
296
00:16:10,427 --> 00:16:12,096
[snarling, tearing paper]
297
00:16:27,194 --> 00:16:28,946
[humming softly]
298
00:16:29,905 --> 00:16:31,365
[grunting]
299
00:16:32,199 --> 00:16:35,077
Here's the rest of the materials
you requested, Princess.
300
00:16:35,619 --> 00:16:37,287
Oh, thank you.
301
00:16:38,747 --> 00:16:43,168
Did... did, did you find
Grillo's Lexicon of Lesser Astrography?
302
00:16:45,421 --> 00:16:47,923
- I shall return.
- [giggling]
303
00:16:48,340 --> 00:16:51,010
- Thank you!
- [creature squeaking]
304
00:16:52,469 --> 00:16:55,264
[Librarian] What are you doing? No!
Don't touch that! No, don't!
305
00:16:55,347 --> 00:16:56,348
[screeching]
306
00:16:57,057 --> 00:16:59,143
- Princess Tavra...
- [creature squealing]
307
00:16:59,268 --> 00:17:01,228
[Librarian] Yes, you better run, creature.
308
00:17:01,937 --> 00:17:05,232
- There you are, little sister.
- Oh, Tavra. Come look.
309
00:17:05,524 --> 00:17:06,567
It's Mother Aughra.
310
00:17:08,902 --> 00:17:11,321
And I discovered some facts
about swamp roots.
311
00:17:11,405 --> 00:17:12,614
You're going to love this.
312
00:17:12,698 --> 00:17:15,743
Did you know that tug noot
causes explosive belching?
313
00:17:16,035 --> 00:17:18,037
- I have news for you, Brea.
- Hm?
314
00:17:19,163 --> 00:17:23,000
I convinced Mother to let you attend
the tithing ceremony.
315
00:17:23,083 --> 00:17:25,044
[gasping, giggling]
316
00:17:25,252 --> 00:17:28,589
- You're having fun with me.
- You know I never have fun.
317
00:17:28,672 --> 00:17:29,798
[gasping]
318
00:17:29,965 --> 00:17:33,552
Oh, this is fantastic!
Will I get to talk to the Skeksis?
319
00:17:33,635 --> 00:17:37,056
- I have so many questions!
- Oh, the lords don't like questions.
320
00:17:37,139 --> 00:17:40,976
Oh! Why don't they like questions?
How else do we learn?
321
00:17:41,226 --> 00:17:42,936
Now I have more questions.
322
00:17:43,062 --> 00:17:45,481
Oh, Brea, don't embarrass me this time.
323
00:17:45,898 --> 00:17:48,192
I won't. I promise.
324
00:17:48,275 --> 00:17:52,029
[chuckling]
You have so much ink on your face.
325
00:17:52,821 --> 00:17:53,906
Now, come.
326
00:17:54,198 --> 00:17:56,075
- We can't be late.
- Ah.
327
00:17:57,701 --> 00:17:59,286
[humming]
328
00:17:59,369 --> 00:18:01,246
Maybe just one question.
329
00:18:09,546 --> 00:18:11,924
[water rushing]
330
00:18:12,007 --> 00:18:17,346
[Deet]
♪ Far from the brothers' blinding light ♪
331
00:18:17,471 --> 00:18:24,061
- ♪ Beneath the blanket of the long night ♪
- [creatures squeaking]
332
00:18:24,812 --> 00:18:30,109
♪ Grottans work in the dark and deep ♪
333
00:18:30,192 --> 00:18:32,903
♪ Where the glow moss grows ♪
334
00:18:32,986 --> 00:18:37,157
♪ And there crawlies creep ♪
335
00:18:39,326 --> 00:18:41,036
[chewing]
336
00:18:47,167 --> 00:18:49,670
- [exhaling]
- [squeaking]
337
00:18:50,879 --> 00:18:52,339
Woo!
338
00:18:52,422 --> 00:18:53,549
[whooshing, wings flapping]
339
00:18:58,887 --> 00:19:00,639
[chirping]
340
00:19:02,432 --> 00:19:03,684
Look! Deet!
341
00:19:04,518 --> 00:19:05,727
Oh, hi, family!
342
00:19:05,811 --> 00:19:08,313
- Deet, Deet, Deet, Deet!
- [laughing heartily]
343
00:19:08,897 --> 00:19:11,942
Hello, Nurlocs! It's feeding time!
344
00:19:17,281 --> 00:19:19,283
[growling]
345
00:19:23,245 --> 00:19:26,165
I'll see you tomorrow!
And remember to share!
346
00:19:33,797 --> 00:19:36,550
[baby Nurloc crying]
347
00:19:37,384 --> 00:19:39,052
I hear you, baby!
348
00:19:40,804 --> 00:19:42,639
[baby Nurloc crying]
349
00:19:44,308 --> 00:19:45,601
[cooing]
350
00:19:46,476 --> 00:19:47,476
Hello.
351
00:19:49,354 --> 00:19:50,981
- Hungry?
- [continues cooing]
352
00:19:52,232 --> 00:19:54,276
- Look, some delicious moss.
- [squealing]
353
00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:56,695
[baby gurgling]
354
00:19:57,362 --> 00:19:59,698
There you go. [chuckling]
355
00:19:59,781 --> 00:20:01,200
[foreboding music playing]
356
00:20:02,367 --> 00:20:04,953
Don't eat too fast. Chew your food.
357
00:20:05,412 --> 00:20:07,748
[powering noise]
358
00:20:07,831 --> 00:20:09,333
- [roaring]
- [shrieking]
359
00:20:11,126 --> 00:20:12,711
- What's got into you?
- [barking]
360
00:20:13,378 --> 00:20:15,380
How about I return
when you're feeling better?
361
00:20:15,505 --> 00:20:17,007
[shrieking]
362
00:20:17,257 --> 00:20:18,550
Oh, my wing!
363
00:20:18,759 --> 00:20:20,260
- [yelping]
- [roaring]
364
00:20:20,344 --> 00:20:21,803
[groaning]
365
00:20:25,307 --> 00:20:26,767
[roaring]
366
00:20:27,142 --> 00:20:28,560
[shrieking]
367
00:20:30,312 --> 00:20:31,855
[growling]
368
00:20:33,357 --> 00:20:34,650
[panting]
369
00:20:34,733 --> 00:20:37,194
[roaring, snapping]
370
00:20:42,032 --> 00:20:44,034
[roaring]
371
00:20:44,451 --> 00:20:45,452
[Landstriders galloping]
372
00:20:48,247 --> 00:20:49,998
[Landstriders bellowing]
373
00:20:50,249 --> 00:20:51,267
- [overlapping chatter]
- Excuse us.
374
00:20:51,291 --> 00:20:52,971
- Excuse us. Sorry.
- Will you keep moving?
375
00:20:53,001 --> 00:20:55,063
- [Vapran female huffing]
- [Tavra] We have to hurry.
376
00:20:55,087 --> 00:20:56,713
Mother wants us by her side...
377
00:20:56,838 --> 00:20:59,091
- [chattering continues]
- when the Skeksis arrive.
378
00:20:59,174 --> 00:21:00,342
[gasping]
379
00:21:01,134 --> 00:21:02,134
They're here!
380
00:21:02,386 --> 00:21:04,972
We're going to be late.
Unless we get to the...
381
00:21:05,931 --> 00:21:06,932
Brea?
382
00:21:07,849 --> 00:21:09,518
[sighing] Brea!
383
00:21:09,601 --> 00:21:11,746
- Excuse me. Pardon me, please.
- [overlapping dialogue]
384
00:21:11,770 --> 00:21:13,998
- [male Vapran 1] Oh, they're coming!
- [male Vapran 2] Here they come!
385
00:21:14,022 --> 00:21:15,500
- Please, pardon me.
- [crowd cheering]
386
00:21:15,524 --> 00:21:17,126
[male Vapran 2]
Mind where you're going, child!
387
00:21:17,150 --> 00:21:18,193
[Brea] I beg your pardon.
388
00:21:18,735 --> 00:21:20,737
[thunderous cheering]
389
00:21:24,199 --> 00:21:26,785
Excuse me. Pardon me.
Thank you. If I could just...
390
00:21:26,868 --> 00:21:27,868
Excuse me.
391
00:21:28,203 --> 00:21:29,579
Oh, excuse me!
392
00:21:29,663 --> 00:21:31,415
- [yelping]
- [gasping]
393
00:21:31,832 --> 00:21:33,834
[Landstrider bellowing]
394
00:21:35,585 --> 00:21:36,585
Oh...
395
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:41,842
[exhaling]
396
00:21:43,844 --> 00:21:45,470
Whoa!
397
00:21:48,307 --> 00:21:51,560
Why have we stopped?
What is the meaning of...
398
00:21:52,019 --> 00:21:53,019
Oh...
399
00:21:53,937 --> 00:21:55,981
Watch yourself, Gelfling.
400
00:21:56,481 --> 00:21:59,192
Little things have a habit
of being stepped on by...
401
00:21:59,943 --> 00:22:01,403
big things.
402
00:22:02,946 --> 00:22:05,407
[Ordon]
My lord, no need to trouble yourself.
403
00:22:05,824 --> 00:22:07,701
I will see the girl safely home.
404
00:22:07,784 --> 00:22:09,262
- Hm.
- [female Vapran 1] There. Do you see?
405
00:22:09,286 --> 00:22:10,829
[crowd murmuring]
406
00:22:10,912 --> 00:22:12,181
- [female Vapran 2] The lords saved her.
- [male Vapran 3] Which princess?
407
00:22:12,205 --> 00:22:13,766
- [female Vapran 2] Such chivalry!
- [male Vapran 4] It's Princess Brea.
408
00:22:13,790 --> 00:22:16,144
- [female Vapran 1] The little one, Brea!
- [male Vapran 3] Our princess is safe!
409
00:22:16,168 --> 00:22:18,211
A princess?
410
00:22:19,046 --> 00:22:20,172
Yes, my lord.
411
00:22:20,464 --> 00:22:23,592
I am Brea,
youngest daughter of the All-Maudra.
412
00:22:23,842 --> 00:22:26,470
You are a princess.
413
00:22:27,179 --> 00:22:29,848
Your mother
has been of great service to us.
414
00:22:29,931 --> 00:22:32,642
You must allow us
to escort you to the citadel.
415
00:22:33,226 --> 00:22:37,064
It would be our pleasure.
416
00:22:38,148 --> 00:22:39,024
Uh...
417
00:22:39,107 --> 00:22:40,734
Thank you, my lord, but...
418
00:22:40,817 --> 00:22:43,945
Uh-uh! I insist. Come!
419
00:22:45,489 --> 00:22:46,990
- Come.
- Ooh!
420
00:22:47,324 --> 00:22:49,052
- Lucky child!
- She's getting in the carriage.
421
00:22:49,076 --> 00:22:51,220
- To ride with the lords! Look at that.
- [overlapping chatter]
422
00:22:51,244 --> 00:22:52,555
- [guard] On our way, then!
- Mm-hmm.
423
00:22:52,579 --> 00:22:53,830
[guard] Not a moment to lose!
424
00:22:53,914 --> 00:22:55,248
[exhaling]
425
00:22:55,374 --> 00:22:59,586
Look, skekLach.
We have a princess in our carriage.
426
00:22:59,669 --> 00:23:00,669
[hacking]
427
00:23:01,004 --> 00:23:02,464
- Oh...
- [continues hacking]
428
00:23:02,756 --> 00:23:04,716
I'm not much of a princess, my lord.
429
00:23:05,217 --> 00:23:06,444
- Hmm.
- [Brea] Not like my sisters.
430
00:23:06,468 --> 00:23:08,053
Tavra's a great warrior,
431
00:23:08,136 --> 00:23:09,846
and Seladon is the eldest,
432
00:23:09,930 --> 00:23:13,683
- so she'll be All-Maudra one day.
- Blah, blah! Proceed!
433
00:23:13,809 --> 00:23:15,519
- [zapping]
- [moaning]
434
00:23:22,609 --> 00:23:24,069
[gasping]
435
00:23:27,114 --> 00:23:29,116
[Landstriders bellowing]
436
00:23:29,408 --> 00:23:33,453
- [carriage wheels rolling]
- [Landstriders galloping]
437
00:23:35,914 --> 00:23:37,958
What's that on your cheek?
438
00:23:38,041 --> 00:23:39,459
Ink, my lord.
439
00:23:39,626 --> 00:23:42,045
I keep a journal
where I record all that I learn.
440
00:23:42,129 --> 00:23:44,423
[gasping] So you can read.
441
00:23:44,506 --> 00:23:46,299
Oh, how wonderful!
442
00:23:46,758 --> 00:23:48,260
Did you hear that, skekLach?
443
00:23:48,969 --> 00:23:51,847
She can read and write.
444
00:23:52,097 --> 00:23:55,225
I too am a connoisseur
of the written word.
445
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,937
I am the Scroll-Keeper.
446
00:23:59,020 --> 00:24:00,188
[gasping]
447
00:24:00,313 --> 00:24:02,524
- I've read all about you!
- [skekLach hacking]
448
00:24:02,607 --> 00:24:05,777
You're in charge of the Great Library
at the Castle of the Crystal!
449
00:24:06,153 --> 00:24:08,697
Hm...
I see you've done your research.
450
00:24:09,156 --> 00:24:12,075
- [Brea] Is it a big library?
- [Scroll-Keeper] Simple childling!
451
00:24:12,159 --> 00:24:13,994
- It is endless.
- [skekLach snorting]
452
00:24:14,077 --> 00:24:16,705
I have tomes
that go back a thousand trine.
453
00:24:17,497 --> 00:24:18,707
Hm...
454
00:24:18,832 --> 00:24:20,208
Could I visit your library?
455
00:24:20,292 --> 00:24:21,418
No!
456
00:24:21,501 --> 00:24:25,005
That knowledge is forbidden.
457
00:24:25,088 --> 00:24:27,257
But... why?
458
00:24:28,425 --> 00:24:31,470
- Do you see this face?
- Uh-huh.
459
00:24:31,553 --> 00:24:36,141
- Once, this was a beautiful face.
- [Brea] Um...
460
00:24:36,558 --> 00:24:39,394
But then came...
461
00:24:39,853 --> 00:24:41,730
knowledge.
462
00:24:41,813 --> 00:24:47,152
Oh, hush! Such rubbish.
You were never beautiful.
463
00:24:48,278 --> 00:24:50,614
I remember.
464
00:24:51,198 --> 00:24:54,201
Never. [chuckling]
465
00:24:54,868 --> 00:24:57,954
[cackling]
466
00:24:58,914 --> 00:25:00,916
[Landstrider bellowing]
467
00:25:14,679 --> 00:25:15,972
- Where's Brea?
- Well...
468
00:25:16,056 --> 00:25:18,058
[horn blowing]
469
00:25:20,894 --> 00:25:22,896
[skekLach hacking]
470
00:25:23,355 --> 00:25:25,357
[horn blowing]
471
00:25:27,067 --> 00:25:29,361
The Keepers of the Crystal!
472
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,242
[skekLach continues hacking]
473
00:25:36,535 --> 00:25:38,578
- [heavy footsteps]
- [metal jingling]
474
00:25:43,708 --> 00:25:46,962
Oh, look. There she is.
475
00:25:48,964 --> 00:25:50,173
[skekLach wheezing]
476
00:25:50,257 --> 00:25:52,634
The All-Maudra looks cross.
477
00:25:53,301 --> 00:25:56,888
Not to worry,
I will speak with her on your behalf.
478
00:25:59,099 --> 00:26:00,225
[coughing]
479
00:26:00,475 --> 00:26:01,309
Hm?
480
00:26:01,476 --> 00:26:02,394
What?
481
00:26:02,477 --> 00:26:03,477
Thank you.
482
00:26:04,187 --> 00:26:07,399
Run along now, Princess.
483
00:26:08,650 --> 00:26:10,652
Away, away.
484
00:26:11,236 --> 00:26:12,362
Mother...
485
00:26:13,822 --> 00:26:14,822
Hm.
486
00:26:15,490 --> 00:26:17,325
[skekLach hacking]
487
00:26:21,371 --> 00:26:24,708
- What happened to not embarrassing me?
- This time, it really wasn't my fault.
488
00:26:24,791 --> 00:26:25,792
Quiet.
489
00:26:28,712 --> 00:26:30,255
Honored lords...
490
00:26:31,047 --> 00:26:34,342
welcome to Ha'rar, home of the Vapra,
491
00:26:34,426 --> 00:26:39,014
seat of the All-Maudra
who rules over all Gelfling.
492
00:26:39,764 --> 00:26:41,200
- [All-Maudra] As the Emperor wisely...
- You'll definitely be sent
493
00:26:41,224 --> 00:26:43,184
to the Order of Lesser Service now,
sister.
494
00:26:43,310 --> 00:26:45,746
- [All-Maudra] We are humbled by...
- You're just jealous, Seladon.
495
00:26:45,770 --> 00:26:47,897
I got to ride in the lords' carriage.
496
00:26:47,981 --> 00:26:49,733
- [scoffs]
- [All-Maudra]...each trine,
497
00:26:49,816 --> 00:26:51,067
the Seven Clans,
498
00:26:51,484 --> 00:26:55,405
from the fiercest Stonewood
to the lowliest Grottan,
499
00:26:55,488 --> 00:26:59,534
- gift unto our generous lords a tithe.
- [wheezing]
500
00:27:00,327 --> 00:27:01,453
As is proper,
501
00:27:01,953 --> 00:27:06,333
the noble Vapra hold the honor
of being the first to give.
502
00:27:08,001 --> 00:27:12,464
All hail the Lords of the Crystal!
503
00:27:13,548 --> 00:27:19,262
[all] All hail the Skeksis!
All hail the Skeksis!
504
00:27:19,763 --> 00:27:21,556
[creatures growling, squeaking]
505
00:27:24,351 --> 00:27:26,102
[gears clanking]
506
00:27:26,186 --> 00:27:28,188
Cruel, pernicious Emperor,
507
00:27:28,271 --> 00:27:32,192
preeminent minds are never
properly appreciated in their time.
508
00:27:32,317 --> 00:27:33,610
[grumbling]
509
00:27:33,693 --> 00:27:38,657
- [chains rattling]
- But every problem obfuscates a solution
510
00:27:38,907 --> 00:27:41,785
waiting to be discovered.
511
00:27:45,121 --> 00:27:47,957
If the Crystal cannot draw
enough power from Thra,
512
00:27:48,416 --> 00:27:50,877
then I must provide it
with another source.
513
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,045
Hm...
514
00:27:52,754 --> 00:27:53,880
[lever clanking]
515
00:27:54,339 --> 00:27:55,173
[lever rattling]
516
00:27:55,256 --> 00:27:57,050
[machine powering up]
517
00:27:58,134 --> 00:27:59,594
[electricity buzzing]
518
00:28:03,682 --> 00:28:05,558
Wonderful!
519
00:28:08,645 --> 00:28:10,647
[creature shuddering]
520
00:28:10,855 --> 00:28:12,774
[chains rattling]
521
00:28:12,857 --> 00:28:14,150
Yes!
522
00:28:16,653 --> 00:28:17,779
[handwheel screeching]
523
00:28:18,154 --> 00:28:19,794
- [gears rattling]
- [electricity buzzing]
524
00:28:19,864 --> 00:28:20,864
Ah!
525
00:28:21,074 --> 00:28:23,576
Yes, yes!
526
00:28:25,161 --> 00:28:26,913
[buzzing intensifies]
527
00:28:28,581 --> 00:28:30,083
[cackling]
528
00:28:33,044 --> 00:28:34,713
[gears clanking]
529
00:28:39,968 --> 00:28:43,304
How very interesting.
530
00:28:49,728 --> 00:28:50,895
That's enough.
531
00:28:52,647 --> 00:28:54,607
I said enough!
532
00:28:54,941 --> 00:28:56,401
[creature shrieking]
533
00:28:56,651 --> 00:28:59,320
Cease! I command you!
534
00:28:59,696 --> 00:29:01,030
[screaming]
535
00:29:02,449 --> 00:29:04,451
[machine powering down]
536
00:29:04,743 --> 00:29:05,952
[yelping]
537
00:29:06,077 --> 00:29:07,996
[Chamberlain] Oh, my, my, my!
538
00:29:08,079 --> 00:29:10,081
- Beloved Scientist!
- [panting]
539
00:29:11,458 --> 00:29:13,251
You must be careful.
540
00:29:13,334 --> 00:29:17,630
- I may not always be here to save you.
- [Scientist groaning]
541
00:29:18,047 --> 00:29:19,382
The Crystal,
542
00:29:19,466 --> 00:29:21,217
it took hold of me.
543
00:29:22,093 --> 00:29:23,636
I could not stop it.
544
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,890
I felt it draw forth my life force,
545
00:29:26,973 --> 00:29:30,101
my very essence.
546
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:31,936
Mmm...
547
00:29:32,687 --> 00:29:35,815
[groaning] I failed again.
548
00:29:35,899 --> 00:29:37,317
You need a walk.
549
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,987
Come, we walk. You and I, yes?
550
00:29:41,529 --> 00:29:44,574
Perhaps a walk would be agreeable.
551
00:29:44,657 --> 00:29:45,784
Yes.
552
00:29:52,290 --> 00:29:54,292
[Scientist] It's too much to bear.
553
00:29:54,375 --> 00:29:57,921
My every experiment ends in disaster.
554
00:29:58,254 --> 00:30:03,176
And now, I've accidentally reversed
the Crystal's magnetostatic field.
555
00:30:03,259 --> 00:30:07,847
Please, small words.
Chamberlain is not smart like Scientist.
556
00:30:07,931 --> 00:30:11,059
Instead of giving life,
I made the Crystal take life.
557
00:30:11,184 --> 00:30:14,020
I will be punished grievously
for this failure.
558
00:30:14,103 --> 00:30:16,314
No. You found answer.
559
00:30:16,397 --> 00:30:18,983
You are hero. Big reward.
560
00:30:19,150 --> 00:30:21,986
- Huge!
- You mock me, skekSil?
561
00:30:22,070 --> 00:30:25,281
No, no! You make Crystal hungry.
562
00:30:25,573 --> 00:30:30,829
Crystal pulls out essence,
but what if we take essence for Skeksis?
563
00:30:30,912 --> 00:30:32,580
What if we snatch it?
564
00:30:33,623 --> 00:30:36,251
- Collect the essence?
- Yes!
565
00:30:36,417 --> 00:30:39,128
Instead of taking power
we need from Crystal,
566
00:30:39,212 --> 00:30:43,258
Skeksis use Crystal
to take power from essence.
567
00:30:43,341 --> 00:30:45,677
Hmm...
Hypothetically sound,
568
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,721
but I will need a creature
to experiment upon.
569
00:30:49,097 --> 00:30:53,351
Hmm... Well, Crystal is Thra.
570
00:30:53,643 --> 00:30:55,186
Thra gave life.
571
00:30:55,770 --> 00:30:58,314
What creatures are closest to Thra, hm?
572
00:30:58,648 --> 00:31:01,276
Most full of essence, hmm?
573
00:31:01,401 --> 00:31:03,403
Hmm...
574
00:31:04,279 --> 00:31:05,697
Hm...
575
00:31:05,780 --> 00:31:07,949
- [footsteps]
- [metal clanking against floor]
576
00:31:08,950 --> 00:31:10,618
Mm...
577
00:31:10,702 --> 00:31:12,704
[exhales]
578
00:31:17,625 --> 00:31:20,795
- Mm?
- Mm...
579
00:31:23,882 --> 00:31:25,884
[strained panting]
580
00:31:34,851 --> 00:31:36,853
[whimpering]
581
00:31:43,234 --> 00:31:45,236
[chirping]
582
00:31:45,737 --> 00:31:47,238
The Sanctuary Tree?
583
00:31:48,990 --> 00:31:50,950
I haven't been here since I was small.
584
00:31:51,784 --> 00:31:54,537
- [Sanctuary Tree] You're still small.
- [gasping]
585
00:31:55,204 --> 00:31:57,040
You... You can talk?
586
00:31:57,373 --> 00:32:00,877
[Sanctuary Tree]
Only to those who can hear, Deet.
587
00:32:01,586 --> 00:32:04,464
- You know my name?
- [Sanctuary Tree] I know much more.
588
00:32:04,547 --> 00:32:08,051
I know how you care
for all the creatures of Grot
589
00:32:08,134 --> 00:32:10,762
and how much they care for you.
590
00:32:11,012 --> 00:32:13,181
Except the Nurloc that attacked me.
591
00:32:13,264 --> 00:32:15,099
[Sanctuary Tree] It's not her fault.
592
00:32:15,183 --> 00:32:18,478
She has been consumed by the Darkening.
593
00:32:19,354 --> 00:32:21,189
What is the Darkening?
594
00:32:21,272 --> 00:32:22,992
[Sanctuary Tree]
An infectious contamination
595
00:32:23,024 --> 00:32:24,901
within the Crystal of Truth
596
00:32:24,984 --> 00:32:28,613
and within Thra.
For they are one and the same.
597
00:32:29,030 --> 00:32:30,698
For a thousand trine,
598
00:32:30,782 --> 00:32:34,619
we, the Great Trees, have kept it
contained beneath the ground.
599
00:32:34,744 --> 00:32:36,454
But we are losing our battle.
600
00:32:36,537 --> 00:32:39,540
Even now, it spreads to the world above.
601
00:32:39,624 --> 00:32:43,127
You must warn the Gelfling,
rally them to our cause.
602
00:32:43,211 --> 00:32:46,130
The Darkening
corrupts everything it touches.
603
00:32:46,214 --> 00:32:49,509
- All Thra is at risk.
- [gasps]
604
00:32:50,885 --> 00:32:52,178
All Thra?
605
00:32:52,845 --> 00:32:55,515
[Sanctuary Tree's voice echoing] Behold...
606
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,558
[wood creaking]
607
00:32:58,434 --> 00:32:59,434
[exhales]
608
00:33:01,354 --> 00:33:02,354
[creaking intensifies]
609
00:33:03,898 --> 00:33:05,178
[Sanctuary Tree exhales heavily]
610
00:33:10,029 --> 00:33:11,864
[petals rustling]
611
00:33:12,490 --> 00:33:13,908
[gasping]
612
00:33:18,204 --> 00:33:25,003
- [loud energy blast]
- [whooshing]
613
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:27,296
[Landstrider moaning]
614
00:33:28,756 --> 00:33:29,966
[yelling, breathing heavily]
615
00:33:30,049 --> 00:33:31,509
[Nurloc roaring]
616
00:33:33,428 --> 00:33:35,346
[creature squealing]
617
00:33:35,638 --> 00:33:37,015
[screaming]
618
00:33:38,016 --> 00:33:39,308
[shrieking]
619
00:33:44,647 --> 00:33:46,441
[screaming]
620
00:33:50,445 --> 00:33:51,445
[energy blast]
621
00:33:51,487 --> 00:33:52,905
[gasping]
622
00:34:00,204 --> 00:34:01,497
[insect chirping]
623
00:34:01,622 --> 00:34:03,708
[Gurjin groaning] This happens every time.
624
00:34:03,791 --> 00:34:07,128
You say, "Let's have an adventure, Gurjin.
It'll be great fun, Gurjin."
625
00:34:07,211 --> 00:34:09,464
But it never is. I should be at my post,
626
00:34:09,964 --> 00:34:13,051
not wandering the halls,
looking for phantom Spitters.
627
00:34:13,134 --> 00:34:14,886
I know what I saw.
628
00:34:14,969 --> 00:34:16,763
Perhaps we should turn back.
629
00:34:17,096 --> 00:34:18,848
We can try again tomorrow.
630
00:34:19,515 --> 00:34:21,184
Just a bit further, please.
631
00:34:21,267 --> 00:34:23,269
- [sighing]
- [chuckles] A bit further.
632
00:34:23,478 --> 00:34:26,439
- Come on, Gurjin!
- Don't think so, lovebirds. I'm done.
633
00:34:26,564 --> 00:34:29,692
You two have a great time.
I'll entertain myself...
634
00:34:30,318 --> 00:34:31,486
right here.
635
00:34:32,570 --> 00:34:33,780
[groaning]
636
00:34:33,905 --> 00:34:34,947
Let's go.
637
00:34:36,824 --> 00:34:38,284
[creature cooing]
638
00:34:41,496 --> 00:34:42,705
- [scurrying]
- Hm?
639
00:34:43,706 --> 00:34:44,874
[Rian sighing]
640
00:34:45,917 --> 00:34:48,544
- All these corridors look the same.
- Mm.
641
00:34:50,379 --> 00:34:52,381
I think we're going in circles.
642
00:34:54,217 --> 00:34:55,426
We should split up.
643
00:34:59,305 --> 00:35:00,556
[sighing]
644
00:35:03,684 --> 00:35:05,186
Where's the fun in that?
645
00:35:05,478 --> 00:35:06,729
[chuckling]
646
00:35:08,856 --> 00:35:09,856
[gasps]
647
00:35:10,983 --> 00:35:13,111
Well, if it's fun you're looking for...
648
00:35:17,990 --> 00:35:18,990
[smooching]
649
00:35:21,119 --> 00:35:22,161
How's that?
650
00:35:23,246 --> 00:35:24,486
- [breathes heavily]
- [exhales]
651
00:35:25,248 --> 00:35:26,666
Good. [sighs]
652
00:35:27,750 --> 00:35:31,003
♪ A loyal Gelfling serves his lords ♪
653
00:35:31,087 --> 00:35:34,841
♪ And always reaps his just rewards ♪
654
00:35:35,299 --> 00:35:37,301
[sipping]
655
00:35:41,681 --> 00:35:43,683
[rumbling]
656
00:35:43,975 --> 00:35:45,601
[scurrying]
657
00:35:50,439 --> 00:35:52,066
- [hissing]
- [gasping]
658
00:35:52,733 --> 00:35:56,195
Spitter!
659
00:35:56,487 --> 00:35:57,487
Rian!
660
00:35:58,906 --> 00:36:00,116
[Gurjin] Don't let it escape!
661
00:36:00,199 --> 00:36:01,909
[Spitter scurrying, growling]
662
00:36:01,993 --> 00:36:03,953
Quickly! [panting]
663
00:36:04,704 --> 00:36:06,706
[Spitter growling]
664
00:36:07,665 --> 00:36:08,665
[Rian] Through there!
665
00:36:14,922 --> 00:36:17,508
- [all panting]
- It's escaping. Come on!
666
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:25,683
What's down there?
667
00:36:27,101 --> 00:36:28,101
Let's see.
668
00:36:30,771 --> 00:36:32,773
[lanterns clanking]
669
00:36:33,816 --> 00:36:36,110
Ah! The catacombs.
670
00:36:36,861 --> 00:36:39,405
Gelfling are forbidden
in the catacombs. Skeksis say...
671
00:36:41,073 --> 00:36:42,116
Mira, wait!
672
00:36:42,909 --> 00:36:44,493
We don't have wings.
673
00:36:44,577 --> 00:36:46,078
[panting]
674
00:36:52,501 --> 00:36:55,379
- There's no sign of the Spitter!
- [Gurjin] It could be anywhere!
675
00:36:55,463 --> 00:36:56,547
Wait for us!
676
00:36:56,923 --> 00:36:57,924
[Mira grunts]
677
00:36:59,717 --> 00:37:00,760
[gasps]
678
00:37:03,596 --> 00:37:04,596
Hm?
679
00:37:06,599 --> 00:37:08,017
I'm going down after her!
680
00:37:13,814 --> 00:37:14,815
[grunting]
681
00:37:17,568 --> 00:37:19,237
Is that a good idea?
682
00:37:20,029 --> 00:37:22,990
All right, new plan.
You go, and I'll wait here.
683
00:37:24,951 --> 00:37:25,951
Hm...
684
00:37:26,410 --> 00:37:28,412
[distant growling]
685
00:37:36,337 --> 00:37:38,673
- [grunting]
- [shrieking, whimpering]
686
00:37:39,548 --> 00:37:42,843
I thought I heard something
creeping about.
687
00:37:43,094 --> 00:37:45,638
Naughty, naughty!
688
00:37:45,721 --> 00:37:47,056
[grumbling]
689
00:37:49,684 --> 00:37:51,519
[grunting]
690
00:37:55,189 --> 00:37:56,190
[arming weapon]
691
00:38:02,697 --> 00:38:03,697
Mira?
692
00:38:06,158 --> 00:38:07,159
MIra!
693
00:38:14,125 --> 00:38:16,127
[muttering]
694
00:38:19,255 --> 00:38:21,632
[overlapping chatter]
695
00:38:21,716 --> 00:38:23,217
[skekLach hacking]
696
00:38:23,301 --> 00:38:25,011
Who is next to give?
697
00:38:27,638 --> 00:38:29,098
Hm...
698
00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:33,436
Your tithe is well received.
699
00:38:33,519 --> 00:38:37,523
Thank you, All-Maudra.
And thanks be to the Lords of the Crystal.
700
00:38:39,525 --> 00:38:40,526
Next!
701
00:38:49,368 --> 00:38:51,662
[snorting, hacking]
702
00:38:54,373 --> 00:38:56,917
- [Collector] Ooh...
- [crowd gasping]
703
00:39:03,299 --> 00:39:06,218
Your tithe is wanting.
704
00:39:06,594 --> 00:39:08,637
- [farmer] Yes, Your Grace.
- [crowd whispering]
705
00:39:09,013 --> 00:39:10,848
We beg the lords' forgiveness.
706
00:39:10,973 --> 00:39:14,769
Our land has suffered a strange blight.
Nothing grows.
707
00:39:14,852 --> 00:39:17,396
- [sighs]
- [sighs]
708
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:18,481
Hmm.
709
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:20,733
Lovely.
710
00:39:21,359 --> 00:39:22,902
What is, my lord?
711
00:39:23,235 --> 00:39:24,528
That piece...
712
00:39:24,695 --> 00:39:27,281
- Pretty!
- ...about your neck.
713
00:39:27,782 --> 00:39:29,325
My lord is too kind.
714
00:39:30,076 --> 00:39:31,410
It was my mother's.
715
00:39:31,786 --> 00:39:34,663
Her final wisdom
has been dream-etched into the stone.
716
00:39:36,207 --> 00:39:37,500
Now, this...
717
00:39:37,833 --> 00:39:40,461
this would make an honorable tithe!
718
00:39:40,544 --> 00:39:42,004
- [gasping]
- Oh!
719
00:39:43,547 --> 00:39:46,258
There's plenty of food in our stores.
We could pay the tithe.
720
00:39:46,342 --> 00:39:48,719
His tithe is his to pay.
721
00:39:49,220 --> 00:39:51,764
But... farmers tithe crops.
722
00:39:51,847 --> 00:39:53,641
He has no crops.
723
00:39:53,724 --> 00:39:56,227
[farmer] Please, anything but the pendant.
724
00:39:56,602 --> 00:39:59,772
- Perhaps next harvest...
- [gasps]
725
00:39:59,855 --> 00:40:00,855
Why?
726
00:40:01,148 --> 00:40:03,442
Why do Gelfling hurt us so?
727
00:40:03,943 --> 00:40:08,656
Skeksis give so much
and ask so, so little!
728
00:40:09,448 --> 00:40:11,325
It breaks our hearts.
729
00:40:12,701 --> 00:40:13,744
Sad!
730
00:40:15,413 --> 00:40:16,664
So sad!
731
00:40:17,373 --> 00:40:20,000
- Boo!
- He has to pay!
732
00:40:20,084 --> 00:40:21,794
[overlapping commotion]
733
00:40:21,877 --> 00:40:23,522
[female Gelfling 1]
He should've brought more!
734
00:40:23,546 --> 00:40:24,981
[male Gelfling 1] You should be ashamed!
735
00:40:25,005 --> 00:40:26,465
[commotion continues]
736
00:40:26,549 --> 00:40:29,027
- [female Gelfling 2] We all have to pay!
- [All-Maudra] The lords are benevolent!
737
00:40:29,051 --> 00:40:31,262
- Kind!
- [male Gelfling 2] He has to pay!
738
00:40:31,345 --> 00:40:34,807
They never take that which is not given.
739
00:40:37,935 --> 00:40:39,937
[whimpering]
740
00:40:44,150 --> 00:40:45,359
I'm sorry.
741
00:40:54,743 --> 00:40:57,037
- This is wrong!
- This is the law.
742
00:40:57,329 --> 00:40:59,165
It's the way of things.
743
00:41:03,252 --> 00:41:04,837
The tithe...
744
00:41:06,422 --> 00:41:08,048
is accepted!
745
00:41:08,132 --> 00:41:10,134
[cheering]
746
00:41:10,718 --> 00:41:12,720
[overlapping chatter]
747
00:41:15,014 --> 00:41:16,640
Thank you, my lords.
748
00:41:17,975 --> 00:41:18,975
Thank you.
749
00:41:22,104 --> 00:41:23,104
Next!
750
00:41:26,650 --> 00:41:28,569
[overlapping chatter continues]
751
00:41:38,496 --> 00:41:40,498
[crunching paper, squeaking]
752
00:41:45,753 --> 00:41:47,129
[sighing]
753
00:41:47,630 --> 00:41:49,590
You look troubled, child.
754
00:41:49,673 --> 00:41:51,425
I've been reading about the tithing.
755
00:41:51,509 --> 00:41:53,677
Hm? Hm...
756
00:41:54,595 --> 00:41:57,181
The Skeksis laws. Very good.
757
00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:59,975
- None of it makes sense.
- What?
758
00:42:00,059 --> 00:42:01,936
If the Skeksis are all-powerful,
759
00:42:02,019 --> 00:42:03,479
and they have everything,
760
00:42:03,562 --> 00:42:06,982
then why do they require tithes
from even the poorest Gelfling?
761
00:42:07,066 --> 00:42:10,194
Because all Gelfling benefit
from Skeksis rule.
762
00:42:10,861 --> 00:42:12,905
So all Gelfling must contribute.
763
00:42:13,197 --> 00:42:14,949
Or perhaps...
764
00:42:15,407 --> 00:42:17,952
they want us fighting each other
for the leftovers.
765
00:42:18,869 --> 00:42:21,455
Yes, well,
I think that's enough reading for today.
766
00:42:21,539 --> 00:42:24,041
I was... I was still looking at that. I...
767
00:42:24,291 --> 00:42:26,293
Come back! I... I'm not done!
768
00:42:26,377 --> 00:42:27,628
Don't go down this path!
769
00:42:27,711 --> 00:42:29,981
- I'll go where I please.
- Nothing good will come of this.
770
00:42:30,005 --> 00:42:33,050
I think the Skeksis are hiding something,
and I want to know what!
771
00:42:33,133 --> 00:42:36,220
- [Librarian] I demand you stop!
- I demand the truth!
772
00:42:37,972 --> 00:42:38,972
[gasping]
773
00:42:40,766 --> 00:42:42,977
- [loud thump]
- [paper rustling]
774
00:42:43,102 --> 00:42:44,770
- [Brea sighs]
- [rumbling]
775
00:42:44,853 --> 00:42:46,480
Princess, what have you done?
776
00:42:47,648 --> 00:42:48,732
What's happening?
777
00:42:48,816 --> 00:42:50,192
[squeaking]
778
00:42:50,401 --> 00:42:52,486
No! No, not my books!
779
00:42:52,903 --> 00:42:54,446
- [pages fluttering]
- My manuscripts!
780
00:42:54,530 --> 00:42:55,739
[screaming]
781
00:42:56,490 --> 00:42:57,490
[Brea] Wait!
782
00:42:58,075 --> 00:42:59,285
Come back!
783
00:42:59,910 --> 00:43:01,370
- [gasping]
- [rumbling]
784
00:43:07,543 --> 00:43:09,336
[squeaking]
785
00:43:16,844 --> 00:43:19,513
[rumbling continues]
786
00:43:22,683 --> 00:43:24,435
[gasping]
787
00:43:41,243 --> 00:43:43,245
[rumbling intensifies]
788
00:43:44,330 --> 00:43:45,330
Ow!
789
00:43:46,624 --> 00:43:48,709
[panting]
790
00:43:51,128 --> 00:43:52,338
[gasping]
791
00:43:57,760 --> 00:43:59,762
[jingling]
792
00:44:02,181 --> 00:44:03,182
[sighs]
793
00:44:04,433 --> 00:44:05,433
[exhales]
794
00:44:09,897 --> 00:44:11,899
[fast footsteps approaching]
795
00:44:12,650 --> 00:44:14,109
[panting]
796
00:44:14,735 --> 00:44:15,736
Mother?
797
00:44:16,570 --> 00:44:17,570
Mother!
798
00:44:17,905 --> 00:44:21,200
- Mother, I had a vision!
- You read too many stories.
799
00:44:21,283 --> 00:44:23,869
No, this was real! I heard a sound like...
800
00:44:24,161 --> 00:44:25,954
like singing, but louder.
801
00:44:26,038 --> 00:44:30,459
And there was a burning symbol
in the air, and I... I can show you!
802
00:44:30,542 --> 00:44:33,671
- If we dreamfast, I...
- Very well, but quickly.
803
00:44:34,129 --> 00:44:36,965
The tithing did not go smoothly,
and I'm tired.
804
00:44:37,508 --> 00:44:38,509
[gasping]
805
00:44:43,806 --> 00:44:44,806
What's wrong?
806
00:44:45,265 --> 00:44:47,601
That pendant belongs to the farmer's wife.
807
00:44:47,768 --> 00:44:50,479
[All-Maudra] No.
They gave it to the Skeksis,
808
00:44:50,562 --> 00:44:52,398
who in turn gave it to me.
809
00:44:52,481 --> 00:44:55,359
- Well, then you can give it back.
- [All-Maudra] Our position.
810
00:44:55,984 --> 00:44:57,194
This palace.
811
00:44:57,778 --> 00:44:59,988
- The food on our table.
- I know.
812
00:45:00,072 --> 00:45:02,533
- Even the books in your precious library!
- Mother, I know.
813
00:45:02,616 --> 00:45:05,077
All thanks to the Skeksis' generosity.
814
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:06,160
[sighing]
815
00:45:06,245 --> 00:45:08,997
- Would you give them all back as well?
- Yes.
816
00:45:09,623 --> 00:45:12,251
[scoffing] That's a childling's answer!
817
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:16,380
It's easier to have nothing
when no one depends on you for anything.
818
00:45:17,756 --> 00:45:19,133
- I only meant that...
- [shushing]
819
00:45:19,216 --> 00:45:22,469
It's time you started to act
like a princess.
820
00:45:22,928 --> 00:45:25,097
- [sighing]
- I want you in court in the morning.
821
00:45:25,431 --> 00:45:26,431
On time.
822
00:45:26,765 --> 00:45:28,809
And don't get lost on the way again.
823
00:45:29,727 --> 00:45:30,727
I will.
824
00:45:31,603 --> 00:45:33,689
I mean... I won't.
825
00:45:34,064 --> 00:45:37,776
[sighing] The Skeksis can't save you
every time you're in trouble.
826
00:45:47,286 --> 00:45:50,873
[heavy footsteps]
827
00:45:50,956 --> 00:45:53,459
[creatures chirping]
828
00:45:56,837 --> 00:45:58,547
[panting]
829
00:45:59,089 --> 00:46:00,089
No.
830
00:46:00,466 --> 00:46:02,384
[yelping] We have to save them!
831
00:46:03,135 --> 00:46:05,971
- [panting]
- Deet, you're home. All's well.
832
00:46:06,054 --> 00:46:07,054
Father.
833
00:46:07,473 --> 00:46:09,433
- Where...
- We're all here, Deet.
834
00:46:10,392 --> 00:46:12,060
[door opening]
835
00:46:12,144 --> 00:46:14,354
[grunting] So...
836
00:46:14,605 --> 00:46:17,191
she finally wakes. Ha!
837
00:46:17,274 --> 00:46:18,525
Maudra Argot?
838
00:46:18,609 --> 00:46:21,570
Ah! Let's see how bad it is.
839
00:46:21,653 --> 00:46:22,946
[shattering]
840
00:46:23,030 --> 00:46:25,032
Not that I see much since my eyes went.
841
00:46:29,077 --> 00:46:33,040
Oh, a few bruises, bites.
842
00:46:34,041 --> 00:46:36,210
A torn wing.
843
00:46:36,877 --> 00:46:38,796
Nothing that can't be healed.
844
00:46:39,087 --> 00:46:41,590
You're perfectly safe now, Deet.
845
00:46:41,673 --> 00:46:43,634
No, none of us are safe.
846
00:46:43,842 --> 00:46:45,594
The Darkening is spreading
throughout Thra.
847
00:46:45,969 --> 00:46:47,554
What? What Darkening?
848
00:46:48,472 --> 00:46:50,808
It's like... a sickness.
849
00:46:50,891 --> 00:46:52,559
Oh, I'd know if Thra was sick.
850
00:46:52,976 --> 00:46:54,686
Who told you this, Deet?
851
00:46:55,604 --> 00:46:56,814
The Sanctuary Tree.
852
00:46:57,564 --> 00:46:59,525
The Sanctuary Tree is a tree.
853
00:46:59,608 --> 00:47:01,235
- Trees can't talk.
- Mm.
854
00:47:02,653 --> 00:47:04,279
Except when they can.
855
00:47:04,363 --> 00:47:05,614
[gasping]
856
00:47:06,073 --> 00:47:07,115
Tell me.
857
00:47:07,908 --> 00:47:11,912
What did the Sanctuary Tree
say to you, Deethra?
858
00:47:14,414 --> 00:47:17,167
It told me I had to stop the Darkening.
859
00:47:18,168 --> 00:47:21,338
It showed me creatures driven mad,
860
00:47:21,630 --> 00:47:23,173
a dying tree,
861
00:47:23,715 --> 00:47:25,926
and a one-eyed crone with horns.
862
00:47:26,552 --> 00:47:27,678
Not Gelfling.
863
00:47:28,262 --> 00:47:30,264
Old and sad.
864
00:47:31,431 --> 00:47:33,725
Mother Aughra.
865
00:47:35,060 --> 00:47:36,186
What does it mean?
866
00:47:37,437 --> 00:47:40,357
- It means you must leave.
- [gasping]
867
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:42,651
- Absolutely not.
- Where would she go?
868
00:47:42,818 --> 00:47:45,571
She must journey to the All-Maudra.
869
00:47:45,737 --> 00:47:47,739
Warn her of this threat.
870
00:47:48,532 --> 00:47:50,993
Deet. Why Deet go?
871
00:47:55,914 --> 00:47:58,166
Because the Sanctuary Tree chose me.
872
00:47:58,542 --> 00:48:00,961
It did. It chose well.
873
00:48:01,420 --> 00:48:04,298
No arguing with trees! [laughing]
874
00:48:06,466 --> 00:48:09,469
Now... [sniffing]
875
00:48:10,345 --> 00:48:11,972
Ah!
876
00:48:12,222 --> 00:48:16,018
Take this.
Rub it on your wing twice a day.
877
00:48:16,351 --> 00:48:17,477
Smells bad,
878
00:48:17,561 --> 00:48:19,813
heals good! [laughing]
879
00:48:21,064 --> 00:48:22,149
Oh!
880
00:48:22,232 --> 00:48:26,403
There, for your eyes.
They'll be sensitive at first.
881
00:48:28,071 --> 00:48:32,409
Follow the brightest star
in the sky north, to Ha'rar.
882
00:48:32,784 --> 00:48:34,578
Oh, what's a star?
883
00:48:34,786 --> 00:48:38,165
Oh, you'll see soon enough, Deet.
884
00:48:39,499 --> 00:48:43,670
A whole new world waits for you.
885
00:48:44,796 --> 00:48:46,798
[foreboding music playing]
886
00:48:56,892 --> 00:48:58,894
[creature scurrying]
887
00:49:05,359 --> 00:49:06,401
[yelling]
888
00:49:06,610 --> 00:49:07,986
Huh? Mira?
889
00:49:09,237 --> 00:49:10,530
Mira?
890
00:49:15,535 --> 00:49:16,912
[clanking]
891
00:49:20,582 --> 00:49:22,584
[wheel squeaking]
892
00:49:23,293 --> 00:49:24,586
[grumbling]
893
00:49:26,421 --> 00:49:30,008
- [loud hissing]
- Ow! Contemptible contraption!
894
00:49:30,258 --> 00:49:33,011
[Ritual Master]
SkekTek! It smells terrible in here.
895
00:49:34,346 --> 00:49:36,890
- I've never liked this infernal place.
- Ah!
896
00:49:36,974 --> 00:49:40,769
Patience.
I think you will be most impressed.
897
00:49:43,855 --> 00:49:45,315
This had better work.
898
00:49:45,399 --> 00:49:48,151
Of course, My Emperor, you will see.
899
00:49:48,235 --> 00:49:50,404
I have solved all our problems.
900
00:49:50,487 --> 00:49:54,032
- [chuckling]
- [Gourmand] Will snacks be served?
901
00:49:54,116 --> 00:49:56,243
- [shrieking]
- [gasping] No.
902
00:49:56,827 --> 00:49:59,788
[General] Don't you ever think of anything
but your next meal?
903
00:49:59,913 --> 00:50:01,748
[Gourmand] I eat when I'm stressed.
904
00:50:01,832 --> 00:50:03,792
[Chamberlain] You must often
be stressed, yes?
905
00:50:03,875 --> 00:50:06,461
- [Gourmand] All the time!
- [all cackling]
906
00:50:06,586 --> 00:50:07,754
[Emperor] Quiet!
907
00:50:07,838 --> 00:50:10,424
- Begin, skekTek.
- [skekTek] Yes, Emperor.
908
00:50:12,259 --> 00:50:14,261
[gears clanking]
909
00:50:14,803 --> 00:50:18,348
The Emperor will skin the Scientist alive
if this fails.
910
00:50:18,432 --> 00:50:21,018
I have just the knife
for such an occasion.
911
00:50:21,101 --> 00:50:24,229
- [chuckling]
- [Scientist] Lords, as you well know,
912
00:50:24,312 --> 00:50:28,316
our mighty Emperor tasked
this humble Skeksis
913
00:50:28,483 --> 00:50:30,736
- with an impossible...
- Get on with it!
914
00:50:31,236 --> 00:50:32,529
Of course.
915
00:50:32,612 --> 00:50:37,034
Allow me, if you will,
to introduce our honored guest.
916
00:50:37,451 --> 00:50:40,620
Come out! Don't be shy!
917
00:50:43,790 --> 00:50:45,250
Huh?
918
00:50:45,876 --> 00:50:48,712
[Gourmand] What is that? What is that?
919
00:50:48,795 --> 00:50:50,172
[all exclaiming]
920
00:50:50,672 --> 00:50:53,967
- [whispering] Mira!
- A Gelfling? Here?
921
00:50:54,134 --> 00:50:55,135
Sacrilege!
922
00:50:55,635 --> 00:50:58,472
- Have you no sense of propriety?
- Hush!
923
00:50:59,097 --> 00:51:00,891
Continue, skekTek.
924
00:51:01,433 --> 00:51:06,146
Be welcome, Gelfling.
I require your assistance.
925
00:51:06,980 --> 00:51:10,192
Look. Do you know what this is?
926
00:51:13,528 --> 00:51:15,072
[Mira gasping]
927
00:51:18,742 --> 00:51:20,368
It's the Crystal of Truth.
928
00:51:20,452 --> 00:51:23,455
Yes. Isn't it lovely?
929
00:51:24,456 --> 00:51:26,458
[electricity buzzing]
930
00:51:34,049 --> 00:51:36,802
No! What are you doing to it?
931
00:51:36,885 --> 00:51:39,012
Just a little experiment.
932
00:51:39,096 --> 00:51:41,056
Such an honor for you.
933
00:51:41,139 --> 00:51:45,393
No Gelfling has laid eyes upon the Crystal
in a thousand trine.
934
00:51:45,477 --> 00:51:47,437
Look deep into it.
935
00:51:47,938 --> 00:51:49,940
[buzzing intensifies]
936
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:54,027
I feel... It's pulling.
937
00:51:54,111 --> 00:51:55,630
- [whispering] Don't, Mira!
- [Mira] Ah|!
938
00:51:55,654 --> 00:51:56,905
Don't fight.
939
00:51:57,364 --> 00:52:01,910
Give. Give the Crystal your fear,
940
00:52:01,993 --> 00:52:05,288
your love, your secrets.
941
00:52:06,081 --> 00:52:08,750
- Please, my lords, help me.
- [Dark Crystal pulsating]
942
00:52:08,834 --> 00:52:11,378
- [skekTek] Give the Crystal everything.
- [Mira moaning] I...
943
00:52:11,795 --> 00:52:14,506
Give it your very essence!
944
00:52:14,589 --> 00:52:16,800
- [crying out]
- [gasping]
945
00:52:18,802 --> 00:52:19,802
No!
946
00:52:20,262 --> 00:52:21,930
- Mira!
- [cackling]
947
00:52:22,764 --> 00:52:24,558
[moaning]
948
00:52:25,100 --> 00:52:28,061
- No! What have you...
- What have you done?
949
00:52:28,145 --> 00:52:31,439
No, wait! Behold!
950
00:52:40,574 --> 00:52:41,950
[Mira shrieking]
951
00:52:48,957 --> 00:52:51,251
Here is the answer we seek!
952
00:52:51,334 --> 00:52:54,838
Here is life everlasting!
953
00:52:54,921 --> 00:52:56,923
[cackling]
954
00:52:58,008 --> 00:52:59,009
Rian...
955
00:52:59,426 --> 00:53:00,427
[gasping]
956
00:53:09,895 --> 00:53:10,895
Mira!
957
00:53:11,980 --> 00:53:12,980
[shouting]
958
00:53:14,900 --> 00:53:16,109
Mira!
959
00:53:16,193 --> 00:53:18,820
- [commotion]
- [gears jamming]
960
00:53:18,904 --> 00:53:20,030
- [zapping]
- [shouting]
961
00:53:21,865 --> 00:53:23,200
My machine!
962
00:53:24,367 --> 00:53:25,911
[machine sputtering]
963
00:53:26,036 --> 00:53:27,036
[Skeksis] No!
964
00:53:27,746 --> 00:53:28,746
[plop]
965
00:53:29,456 --> 00:53:31,458
[bubbling]
966
00:53:33,627 --> 00:53:35,212
[Skeksis muttering]
967
00:53:35,295 --> 00:53:36,755
- Where did she go?
- What...
968
00:53:36,838 --> 00:53:38,006
- Where did she...
- Where?
969
00:53:38,089 --> 00:53:40,209
- [continued muttering]
- Explain yourself, Scientist.
970
00:53:40,258 --> 00:53:42,969
[Scientist]
I have drained the Gelfling's essence.
971
00:53:43,053 --> 00:53:45,597
- This is the solution to our problem.
- What?
972
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:47,641
A new source of life.
973
00:53:48,099 --> 00:53:51,311
Here, My Emperor, for you. Drink.
974
00:53:51,394 --> 00:53:53,855
You must drink. Ah!
975
00:53:56,483 --> 00:53:58,068
[whimpering]
976
00:53:58,860 --> 00:54:00,862
[slurping]
977
00:54:02,155 --> 00:54:04,824
[Skeksis exclaim]
978
00:54:06,868 --> 00:54:08,036
[slurping continues]
979
00:54:08,119 --> 00:54:09,955
Ah! Agh!
980
00:54:11,081 --> 00:54:13,250
How do you feel, sire?
981
00:54:15,043 --> 00:54:17,337
[grunting] I feel...
982
00:54:18,004 --> 00:54:19,172
I feel...
983
00:54:19,256 --> 00:54:22,259
- [yelling]
- ...strong!
984
00:54:22,717 --> 00:54:23,717
Ah!
985
00:54:24,219 --> 00:54:26,263
- My turn! My turn!
- I want some!
986
00:54:26,763 --> 00:54:28,640
[cackling]
987
00:54:30,934 --> 00:54:32,769
[commotion]
988
00:54:33,186 --> 00:54:35,355
- Move aside!
- [grunting]
989
00:54:35,605 --> 00:54:37,190
- You're in my way!
- Don't push.
990
00:54:37,274 --> 00:54:39,609
Don't push me! I want a taste!
991
00:54:39,693 --> 00:54:40,735
[Skeksis slurping]
992
00:54:41,486 --> 00:54:45,115
[Scientist] Don't drink it all, imbeciles.
It must be saved.
993
00:54:45,240 --> 00:54:47,242
- Stop it!
- Enough!
994
00:54:47,701 --> 00:54:49,327
- It's mine!
- Bring it back.
995
00:54:50,245 --> 00:54:52,872
- I want more!
- [overlapping chatter]
996
00:54:53,039 --> 00:54:54,582
[growling, grunting]
997
00:54:54,666 --> 00:54:56,334
[laughing]
998
00:54:56,418 --> 00:54:57,812
- Fools!
- [Skeksis 1] What a gorgeous feeling!
999
00:54:57,836 --> 00:55:00,422
- [Skeksis 2] What did I tell you?
- [overlapping commotion]
1000
00:55:06,219 --> 00:55:08,054
[sniffling]
1001
00:55:12,517 --> 00:55:13,935
[cackling]
1002
00:55:14,185 --> 00:55:16,354
Tonight, we celebrate!
1003
00:55:16,479 --> 00:55:20,358
Let us feast! Music! Revelry!
1004
00:55:20,483 --> 00:55:24,029
For this day, the Skeksis conquered death!
1005
00:55:24,112 --> 00:55:26,114
[cheering]
1006
00:55:26,656 --> 00:55:28,366
[laughing]
1007
00:55:32,871 --> 00:55:34,372
[somber music playing]
1008
00:55:34,831 --> 00:55:36,833
[whimpering]
1009
00:55:42,422 --> 00:55:43,840
[cheering]
1010
00:55:44,382 --> 00:55:45,717
Arr!
1011
00:55:47,552 --> 00:55:48,552
Mira...
1012
00:55:51,556 --> 00:55:54,184
- [laughing]
- Huh?
1013
00:55:55,018 --> 00:55:56,061
[gasping]
1014
00:55:56,227 --> 00:55:58,438
- [gasping]
- Gelfling!
1015
00:55:59,939 --> 00:56:01,900
- Gelfling has seen!
- Seize it!
1016
00:56:01,983 --> 00:56:04,527
- Dirty lookie-loo!
- You'll die for this!
1017
00:56:06,029 --> 00:56:08,114
It saw! It knows!
1018
00:56:08,198 --> 00:56:09,741
I know that Gelfling!
1019
00:56:10,075 --> 00:56:12,452
- It's the captain's son, Rian!
- [gasping]
1020
00:56:12,535 --> 00:56:15,121
- Oh, no!
- It must not escape the castle.
1021
00:56:15,205 --> 00:56:17,123
- Yes.
- As you command!
1022
00:56:17,207 --> 00:56:20,001
He will not escape us!
No, no, go, go, go!
1023
00:56:20,085 --> 00:56:23,088
Seal the exits.
The Gelfling could not have gone far.
1024
00:56:23,171 --> 00:56:25,131
Has the Gelfling learned
what we have done?
1025
00:56:25,215 --> 00:56:27,884
The Emperor must remember his own words.
1026
00:56:28,968 --> 00:56:31,513
We are Lords of the Crystal, yes?
1027
00:56:31,596 --> 00:56:35,225
Even if Rian talk, none will believe.
1028
00:56:38,269 --> 00:56:40,438
[Chamberlain] They will shun him.
1029
00:56:40,897 --> 00:56:43,191
- Cast him out.
- [panting]
1030
00:56:43,942 --> 00:56:45,819
How can they not?
1031
00:56:45,902 --> 00:56:50,657
To believe him
is not to believe themselves.
1032
00:56:53,284 --> 00:56:57,163
Skeksis reign a thousand trine
1033
00:56:57,247 --> 00:57:00,917
and will reign a thousand thousand more,
1034
00:57:01,292 --> 00:57:05,380
until last star in sky goes dark.
1035
00:57:10,260 --> 00:57:12,846
Gelfling will submit,
1036
00:57:13,012 --> 00:57:14,597
head bowed,
1037
00:57:14,681 --> 00:57:18,601
back bent as have always done.
1038
00:57:20,311 --> 00:57:23,731
- Gelfling want to be ruled.
- [wood creaking]
1039
00:57:25,567 --> 00:57:28,319
Gelfling need to be ruled.
1040
00:57:28,403 --> 00:57:29,529
Bye!
1041
00:57:30,697 --> 00:57:34,033
- Deet!
- [Chamberlain] Because Gelfling are weak!
1042
00:57:36,244 --> 00:57:38,621
Gelfling are small.
1043
00:57:44,544 --> 00:57:49,090
And Skeksis are forever!
1044
00:58:01,644 --> 00:58:04,230
We took the Crystal.
1045
00:58:05,064 --> 00:58:08,151
Thra belongs to us now.
1046
00:58:09,903 --> 00:58:11,362
And is nothing...
1047
00:58:11,863 --> 00:58:14,824
nothing Gelfling can do!
1048
00:58:31,633 --> 00:58:33,635
[chirping]
1049
00:58:38,598 --> 00:58:40,600
[fantasy music playing]