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What's the matter, boss? You seem kind
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>> Do I? I thought I hit it better.
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Yeah, you're not looking so hot. You're
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not pushing yourself again, are you? We
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could give up on the whole long hell
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dream thing and bow out here.
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>> Lillian, how can you show such
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disrespect to her majesty?
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>> I mean, we just went to all the trouble
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to get another warding chain. Aren't you
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worried that using the arm too much will
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push it past its limits and break it
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again? Is winning so important that
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you'd risk your life like that? I feel
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like there's got to be some other way.
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>> She may have a point. Withdrawing from
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the tournament here to live in peace at
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Megara may preserve the warding chain.
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It could give your majesty many more
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years of sanity in the long run.
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you once said that a kingdom is its
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I believe you were right.
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>> Ah, yes. when Prince Diane called his
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council of chieftains.
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>> Allow me to expand on that idea.
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Hear me, all of you. I sometimes think
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of a kingdom as a ship.
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Its people are not passengers, but
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sailors. Each plays a role in the proper
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operation of the ship. It runs according
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to their efforts. Who then is the queen?
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Most would call her the ship's captain
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A queen must be more like a navigator.
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She reads the desires of the people and
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charts a course to take their kingdom
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where it must go. That is the proper
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role of a queen. As I see it,
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determining this course is not simple.
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To misread the fluctuating currents ends
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in disaster, and no one can say how long
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a ship may remain seaorthy. That is why
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it is also the queen's role to avoid the
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hazards of temptation in the populace. A
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kingdom where the people's dreams are
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twisted toward evil cannot stand for
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long. The star we must navigate by is
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the spirit inherited from our ancestors.
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Faith is like a guide along the course
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The people of Camus live by it. Someone
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must be the one to chart such a course.
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But none of that explains why you've got
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to kill yourself doing it. Right now, we
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have a golden opportunity. If I can
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fulfill the longheld dream of Camus at
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the cost of my life, I would be chish
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>> Your selflessness is admirable, but you
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are still young, your majesty. I would
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never blame you for putting your own
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>> When the people of Camus are fulfilled
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and happy, then I shall be happy as
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>> As befits a queen, but you are not only
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a queen, you are a human being. Do not
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hurry to your death while you still have
3:28
a right to happiness in life.
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>> On the day of my coronation, when I
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swore my oath to the people of Camus, I
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renounced that right. This right arm may
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consume me whole and soon, but I will
3:42
accept that fate gladly if the people
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know what I did for them as their queen.
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And a queen can't compromise a little. I
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don't think I'll ever quite get it.
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>> A queen's power comes with a duty to
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others, Lillian. Her majesty understands
3:58
the gravity of her actions better than
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anyone. It shapes her life.
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>> Sure. Yeah. It's just not how I think.
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You can at least let us help with
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whatever we can. No need to shoulder it
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all yourself. Lean on us a little more.
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I shall do so. Thank you.
