IF YOU ARE SORRY, COULD YOU GRANT ME ONE FAVOR?
PLEASE GIVE ME A DAGGER.
PARDON?
SURELY YOU CARRY A FEW DAGGERS WITH YOU.
DO YOU NOT?
I... DO, BUT...
HOW STRANGE. A KNIGHT DOES NOT SIMPLY HAND OVER THEIR WEAPON TO ANOTHER.
FORMER ROYALTY WOULD CERTAINLY KNOW THAT..
I WON’T KILL MYSELF. YOU KNOW AS WELL, CAPTAIN.
THE KING PLANS TO SEND YOU ELSEWHERE.
BEFORE THEN, I JUST WANTED TO HAVE SOMETHING OF YOURS.
BECAUSE WE MIGHT NEVER MEET AGAIN FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES.
CAPTAIN, DO YOU KNOW OF THE BLESSING THE DRAGON BESTOWED UPON HENBURG?
YES.
A BLESSING THAT THE LINEAGE OF NOBLE BLOOD WILL NEVER END...
YET NOW, I AM THE ONLY ONE LEFT.
AND I AM INFERTILE.
IT ALL ENDS WHEN I DIE, SO WHAT HAPPENS TO THAT BLESSING?
WILL I GAIN IMMORTALITY?
WHAT DO YOU THINK, CAPTAIN?
IT SEEMS I HAVE TROUBLED YOU.
THANK YOU FOR THE DAGGER. IT IS LOVELY.
CAPTAIN.
COULD I SEE YOU IN THE STUDY TODAY?
YES, I UNDERSTAND.
WAS IT ALWAYS YOUR DREAM TO BE A KNIGHT, CAPTAIN?
IT WAS.
WHY?
IT IS DIFFICULT TO SAY.
I SIMPLY HAD THE TALENT... AND LIVING AS A KNIGHT SUITS ME BEST.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY SUITS YOU?
THE TRAINING MUST BE QUITE GRUELING...
IT IS OBEDIENCE.
IS THERE NO HUMILIATION IN THAT OBEDIENCE?
A KNIGHT'S OBEDIENCE TO THEIR LORD IS NOT HUMILIATING.
I SEE. I WAS MERELY CURIOUS ABOUT HOW DREAMS ARE FORMED.
TALENT AND APTITUDE... A RATHER CLICHÉ REASON, I SUPPOSE.
DID YOU KNOW?
YOU ARE THE FIRST PERSON TO ENTER THIS STUDY MORE THAN ONCE, CAPTAIN.
I FORBADE THE HANDMAIDENS FROM ENTERING, SINCE THEY WOULDN'T CONVERSE WITH ME ANYWAY...
AND THE GUARDS WHO ENTERED EVEN ONCE FELL INTO ONE OF THREE CATEGORIES.
THEY AVOIDED THE STUDY ALTOGETHER,
DISLIKED "TALKING" WITH ME,
OR WANTED SOMETHING OTHER THAN "CONVERSATION."
OF COURSE, BY "CONVERSATION," I DO NOT MEAN MERE SUPERFICIAL PLEASANTRIES.
IF SO, WHY DID YOU ASK TO MEET ME IN THE STUDY?
SO YOU ARE CURIOUS ABOUT THAT.
IF YOU ARE CURIOUS, THEN THAT MEANS...
NO, PERHAPS YOU...
NEVER MIND. FORGET IT.
AS FOR YOUR QUESTION... JUST CHALK IT UP TO A WHIM OF MINE.
JUST... ANSWER MY QUESTION FOR NOW, WON'T YOU?
DID YOU ENJOY TALKING WITH ME?
I KNOW YOU DISLIKE ME, CAPTAIN.
AND I KNOW YOU ENDURED IT JUST TO KEEP ME COMPANY...
THIS IS ENOUGH NOW.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOUR HIGHNESS?
I WON'T BE COMING TO THE STUDY ANYMORE.
THERE IS STILL TIME BEFORE YOUR RETURN.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN? IT WILL ONLY CAUSE TROUBLE FOR YOU TO BE INVOLVED WITH ME, CAPTAIN.
YOU NEED TO RETURN SAFELY WITHOUT ANY RUMORS TRAILING BEHIND YOU.
SHE IS RIGHT.
"THERE IS STILL SOME TIME BEFORE MY RETURN"?
TO ACT AS IF I WERE ASKING TO KEEP SEEING EACH OTHER UNTIL THEN.
WHEN I HAD AVOIDED ADELHEID FOR SO LONG AND THOUGHT SO POORLY OF HER.
CAPTAIN, I KNOW I MUST HAVE BEEN ANNOYING AND UNCOMFORTABLE FOR YOU, BUT...
IT WAS A MEANINGFUL TIME FOR ME.
THANK YOU, TRULY.
THAT IS ALL I WANTED TO SAY. I ONLY ASKED TO MEET SO I COULD SAY GOODBYE.
YOUR HIGHNESS...
WE MIGHT SPEAK OUTSIDE AGAIN, BUT WE WON'T BE DOING THIS IN THE STUDY ANYMORE.
STARTING TOMORROW, DON'T COME HERE.
BECAUSE YOU ARE FORBIDDEN FROM ENTERING NOW.
As a favor from the Captain, who says he is sorry, the woman asks for a dagger. She says the King will send him elsewhere and that she wants to say goodbye. She questions the dragon's blessing given to Henburg, the extinction of her bloodline, and her being barren. She thanks him for the conversations in the study and forbids him from coming anymore to avoid gossip.
