- Nekron: Next time, you present me with one of your little sluts, mother dear. I'll squash you like a bug.
- Teegra: Nekron, you're a great power in the world. You have all that any man ever wants or needed... and yet you despair. For there is one thing you lack... one gift that only you can bestow between our people. Peace. This is the gift that heals the heart of the giver. Nekron, I extend my hand in friendship. I offer peace between our people. Will you not take my hand? Will you not call me friend?
- [Nekron began to cackling evilly]
- Nekron: Woman, I spit on peace. I spit on you.
- Taro: We have come, Lord Nekron. To negotiate between our two peoples, and the return to Fire Keep of my sister, Teegra, whom your warriors basely kidnapped. My father, King Jarol has empowered me to offer a peace between our kingdoms. In exchange for his continued sovereignty and my sister's freedom.
- Nekron: It seems to me that my envoys made a similar offer not long since... and that it was spurned by your illustrious sire.
- Taro: You know full well, Nekron, that offer was made before your minions kidnapped my sister.
- Nekron: I fear, good prince, I cannot offer peace to a people who have refused to proclaim me their rightful overlord. As to your sister. Well, I must admit that until this moment the idea of mating with her filled me with loathing. Perhaps I should reconsider. Your sister, after all, is not wholly unattractive. As lesser beasts go.
- Roleil: Welcome to my hearth, I am Roleil and these woods are my home. Oh, you've had a trying journey. Please let me give you some food and drink. First you shall rest then we will talk. Poor, poor darling. Did great Otwa frighten you? You mustn't be afraid, he's as gentle as a child.
- Teegra: I saw him twist a chain apart with his bare hands.
- Roleil: Oh, yes, he is strong, my sweet. But he means well, my darling. He brought you to me, did he not?
- Roleil: [now a skeleton after her hut has been burnt down] Why do the living disturb the sleep of the dead?
- Larn: I followed a trail. I seek a girl, Teegra.
- Roleil: A girl... yes, she did this to me. She and Nekron. Cursed Nekron!
- Larn: Where can I find her?
- Roleil: Why should I answer?
- Larn: For revenge against Nekron!
- Roleil: Nekron? Agatar! They take her to Agatar, and from there to the icy King's Realm. Avenge me. Avenge Roleil!
- [her skeleton falls apart]
- Roleil: [dissolves a strand of Teegra's hair into her cauldron] Nekron? Nekron? The girl is wanted by Nekron? The bitch! Get it-get it out of my house!
- [pounds it angrily and turns to until she is calmed]
- Roleil: Perhaps I can turn this to my advantage.
- [to Otwa]
- Roleil: Otwa, my son, go and bring the subhumans, Nekron's dogs. Tell them we have the girl that he wants. Tell them he can have her for a price.
- Tutor: All matter in our world is from the natural bases, which are earth, air, fire and water; the four elements from which all things are created.
- Teegra: How can you talk about elements when the war draws nearer to us ever hour?
- Tutor: Princess Teegra, we all have our duty. Your father's duty is to be king and lead. Your brother's duty is to soldier. Your duty is to learn.
- Teegra: You mean my duty is to stay shut up while all the men do the fighting and share all the glory. Well we think that stinks. Don't we, Shaitan?
- Juliana: You have done well, my son. The North Village has fallen. We have won.
- Nekron: I want to thank you, Mother.
- Juliana: The Great Plain is all that stands between ourselves and Fire Keep.
- Nekron: That is a long distance.
- Juliana: A distance we may not have to travel. I am sending our envoys to Jarol with our new demands.
- Nekron: He will not submit.
- Juliana: Perhaps.
- [hands the scroll to her envoys]
- Juliana: You will present our demands to King Jarol at Fire Keep, and give our royal regards to his lovely daughter.
- [Envoy began to smile evilly and she gives an evil smile]
- Envoy: If you peacefully surrender, my Lord Nekron will cease the destruction of...
- Jarol: This is your message of peace? A demand for our total and unconditional surrender?
- Envoy: We call it an offer of alliance, Your Majesty.
- Taro: I call it blackmail.
- Envoy: My Lord Nekron's offer...
- Taro: To hell with Nekron and his offer. We are free men, not slaves.
- Envoy: King Jarol, be reasonable.
- Jarol: My son, Taro, speaks more with his heart than with his head. But he speaks for all of us.
- Taro: There can be no alliance. We will fight you to the death.
- Envoy: Perhaps, you will soon change your mind.
- Jarol: Enough. I want you to go to Nekron, to his mother, Juliana. We must negotiate.
- Taro: With the enemy?
- Jarol: No man is wholly evil. Surely there is some way to appeal to Nekron.
- Taro: You expect his mercy? Father, do you know what he will do if I enter his land under a flag of truce?
- Jarol: We have no choice! We must take that risk. You must take that risk, my son, for the sake of Fire Keep, for the sake of your sister. Go, ride swiftly.
- Roleil: Otwa, my son, go and bring the subhumans, Nekron's dogs. Tell them we have the girl he wants. Tell them he can have her for a price.