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  1. Jubal meditating in the circle. Even larger, pulling back into the “sky”, foreground now filled by the giant spiky mass of the Numidium.
  2.  
  3. Jubal looking up at the Numidium. The shattered remnants of home beyond it.
  4.  
  5. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  6. Hello.
  7.  
  8. NUMIDIUM
  9. (SPEECH BALLOON EMPTY)
  10.  
  11. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  12. I guess you know the deal. I kill you now.
  13.  
  14. NUMIDIUM
  15. (SPEECH BALLOON EMPTY)
  16.  
  17. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  18. No, really, I do. I’d tell you it was my plan all along, but you don’t believe in those, do you?
  19.  
  20. NUMIDIUM
  21. (SPEECH BALLOON EMPTY)
  22.  
  23. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  24. Plans, I mean. But you will. Would you mind, you know, doing this face to face?
  25.  
  26. NUMIDIUM
  27. (SPEECH BALLOON EMPTY)
  28.  
  29. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  30. Serial contrarian to the last. Just do it. For both our sakes. I promise no tricks.`
  31.  
  32. Jubal talks as the Numidium starts to shrink to a proper size.
  33.  
  34. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  35. Thank you. I mean that. The others got it all wrong.
  36.  
  37. NUMIDIUM
  38. (SPEECH BALLOON EMPTY)
  39.  
  40. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  41. Just get down here, already. That’s a good boy.
  42.  
  43. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  44. In those others I include the ones who made you. The Dwemer. ‘The Dwarves’. Whatever.
  45.  
  46. NUMIDIUM
  47. (SPEECH BALLOON EMPTY)
  48.  
  49. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  50. Look, you don’t have to respond to anything I say if you don’t want to, but I already know you know that. So listen for once. Can you do that?
  51.  
  52. NUMIDIUM
  53. (SPEECH BALLOON EMPTY)
  54.  
  55. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  56. I’ll take that as a yes. And I know that any kind of ‘yes’ makes you do what you do, and that only ends in disaster, so hear me out.
  57.  
  58. JUBAL-LUN-SUL (CONT’D)
  59. I’m going to start with some scripture from my people—
  60.  
  61. NUMIDIUM
  62. (SPEECH BALLOON EMPTY)
  63. Jubal and the Numidium face-to-face.
  64.  
  65. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  66. Whoa now, just listen. I promised no tricks. Can I just—
  67.  
  68. NUMIDIUM
  69. (SPEECH BALLOON EMPTY)
  70.  
  71. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  72. —okay, then.
  73.  
  74. JUBAL-LUN-SUL (CONT’D)
  75. After that, I’ll end with some words of your people.
  76.  
  77. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  78. “ACCORDING TO THE CODES OF MEPHALA, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE THEORIST AND THE TERRORIST. EVEN THE MOST CHERISHED DESIRE DISAPPEARS IN THEIR HANDS. THIS IS WHY MEPHALA HAS BLACK HANDS. BRING BOTH OF YOURS TO EVERY ARGUMENT—“
  79.  
  80. NUMIDIUM
  81. (SPEECH BALLOON EMPTY)
  82.  
  83. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  84. I know. Every other word makes you angry. Wrong word. Every assertion does. But just hear it out.
  85.  
  86. NUMIDIUM
  87. (SPEECH BALLOON EMPTY)
  88.  
  89. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  90. “THE ONE-HANDED KING FINDS NO REMEDY. WHEN YOU APPROACH GOD, HOWEVER, CUT BOTH OF THEM OFF. GOD HAS NO NEED OF THEORY AND HE IS ARMORED HEAD TO TOE IN TERROR.“
  91.  
  92. NUMIDIUM
  93. …
  94.  
  95. NUMIDIUM (CONT’D)
  96. (SPEECH BALLOON EMPTY)
  97.  
  98. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  99. It’s literary and portentous. I get that. But the alternative? The words of yours? Those are easy.
  100.  
  101. Jubal steps out of the circle.
  102.  
  103. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  104. “No.”
  105.  
  106. JUBAL-LUN-SUL (CONT’D)
  107. “No.”
  108.  
  109. JUBAL-LUN-SUL (CONT’D)
  110. “No.”
  111.  
  112. JUBAL-LUN-SUL (CONT’D)
  113. “No.”
  114.  
  115. JUBAL-LUN-SUL (CONT’D)
  116. “No.”
  117.  
  118. Jubal and the Numidium face-to-face.
  119.  
  120. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  121. I mean, really, you’re just being a brat.
  122.  
  123. NUMIDIUM
  124. (SPEECH BALLOON EMPTY)
  125.  
  126. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  127. Your philosophy is, for a lack of a better term, the Entitled Teenager. I know you wanted it to be something else. Something more pure, maybe, like Never Underestimate The Little Guy.
  128.  
  129. JUBAL-LUN-SUL (CONT’D)
  130. But that just sucks, too. It gets you nowhere. It got us to this. Everyone ran here to get away from you. To avoid you. Landfall, day one.
  131.  
  132. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  133. But at some point in time, we all have to grow up.
  134.  
  135. JUBAL-LUN-SUL (CONT’D)
  136. Help me with my scarves. No hands of my own and all.
  137.  
  138. NUMIDIUM
  139. (SPEECH BALLOON EMPTY)
  140.  
  141. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  142. Do it.
  143.  
  144. Numidium begins to unwrap the scarves, exposing Jubal’s face.
  145.  
  146. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  147. Let’s face it. You were made to say “fuck it”. That’s not an answer that lasts. But, hey look, a lot of us took it to heart.
  148.  
  149. JUBAL-LUN-SUL (CONT’D)
  150. Together, your people and mine, we joined forces, and said “fuck that shit” to the men that invaded our lands.
  151.  
  152. JUBAL-LUN-SUL (CONT’D)
  153. Afterwards? Yeah, we turned on each other, like people do. But we took you.
  154.  
  155. JUBAL-LUN-SUL (CONT’D)
  156. Because, hey, “fuck it, we won, we do what we want.”
  157.  
  158. Numidium and Jubal now truly face-to-face.
  159.  
  160. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  161. Then some other men invaded us. And they weren’t kidding around this time.
  162.  
  163. JUBAL-LUN-SUL (CONT’D)
  164. Guess what? The only way we got out of it was to give you to them.
  165.  
  166. JUBAL-LUN-SUL (CONT’D)
  167. Because, hey, “fuck it, they won, they get to do what they want.”
  168.  
  169. Jubal walking closer to the Numidium.
  170.  
  171. NUMIDIUM
  172. (SPEECH BALLOON EMPTY)
  173.  
  174. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  175. And the whole time? You were the escape route. You are ‘The Disappearance of the Dwarves’—
  176.  
  177. NUMIDIUM
  178. (SPEECH BALLOON EMPTY)
  179.  
  180. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  181. Wasn’t that hard to figure out. Mainly because other people did before me. But there was always this one unanswered question, tickling in the back brains.
  182.  
  183. Here it comes. Jubal halts, he needs an answer.
  184.  
  185. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  186. WHY DO YOU KEEP COMING BACK?
  187.  
  188. JUBAL-LUN-SUL (CONT’D)
  189. Red Mountain. Alinor. Reclaiming all the tone-shouts from Atmora that they took from YOU?
  190.  
  191. JUBAL-LUN-SUL (CONT’D)
  192. Stomping— to put it kindly— all of Hammerfell into the ocean to, I don’t know, remind its people of their history. And then you chased us here. What is the goddamn point?
  193.  
  194. JUBAL-LUN-SUL(CONT’D)
  195. I mean, really, and I’m really, really asking because no one ever has been, I think, brave enough: do you have some kind of unfinished business?
  196.  
  197. NUMIDIUM
  198. MAYBE.
  199.  
  200. Jubal and the Numidium face-to-face. Jubal is pointing at the Numidium with an arm that has no hand.
  201.  
  202. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  203. Don’t you dare do that! That’s the magic word and we promised no tricks!
  204.  
  205. Jubal and the Numidium stare each other down.
  206.  
  207. NUMIDIUM
  208. GREY AREA. GREY MAYBE.
  209.  
  210. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  211. I KNEW IT!
  212.  
  213. NUMIDIUM
  214. (SPEECH BALLOON EMPTY)
  215.  
  216. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  217. YOU JUST WANTED TO WIN!
  218.  
  219. NUMIDIUM
  220. (SPEECH BALLOON EMPTY)
  221.  
  222. NUMIDIUM
  223. YES.
  224.  
  225. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  226. …finally. Thank you. And I’m sorry.
  227.  
  228. The Numidium cocks its head. Jubal almost looks sorry for it.
  229.  
  230. NUMIDIUM
  231. ?
  232.  
  233. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  234. Don’t you get it? Your people tried to run, but couldn’t. My people have to run, and I needed to hear the way out.
  235.  
  236. JUBAL-LUN-SUL (CONT’D)
  237. We’re finally talking the same language.
  238.  
  239. Jubal cuts the Numidium’s head off with an empty speech balloon.
  240.  
  241. JUBAL-LUN-SUL
  242. (SPEECH BALLOON EMPTY)
  243.  
  244. Jubal lies exhausted on top of the decapitated body of the Numidium. It has no spikes now. It’s just a brass body with no head. Five different fingers point at the scene. Ghostly fingers. The Digitals.
  245.  
  246. TEXT UPPER LEFT
  247. The Wheel As IS. TEM designate: LASTFALL.
  248.  
  249. DIGITAL FINGER 1
  250. REGISTERED BY C0DA.
  251.  
  252. DIGITAL FINGER 2
  253. NO MORE WHEEL. NO MORE LULL.
  254.  
  255. DIGITAL FINGER 3
  256. UNION.
  257.  
  258. DIGITAL FINGER 4
  259. THEN WE SING.
  260.  
  261. DIGITAL FINGER 5
  262. YES. TONAL ARCHITECTURE SET TO THEME: LOVELETTER: WEDDING: AMARANTH.
  263.  
  264. Jubal is armored in the brass shell of the Numidium. His grey long hair is braided. He wears the crest-badge of his house. He has a hawk on one arm and a spear in the other. He is ready.
  265.  
  266. TEXT UPPER LEFT (FONT DIFF)
  267. Ald Sotha. Under-Manor of House Sul. The Wedding Day.
  268.  
  269. JUBAL-LUN-SUL (V.O.)
  270. “The fire is mine: let it consume thee,
  271.  
  272. And make a secret door at the altar of the Aurbis,
  273.  
  274. In the House of the Worm, Where we become safe,
  275.  
  276. And looked after.”
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