See

Do you feel much pain?

Just some aching.

It's time.

Nothing.

- Nothing! - Father. Father.

- I can't see. - It's o... It's okay. Stay calm.

- Oloman, it didn't work. (PANTING) - Father, please.

We'll try it again. The procedure, do it again. Try it again.

I'm sorry. There's nothing more to be done.

You're wrong! There must be.

- Oloman. - Father.

You have to keep reading. All of the medical books, everything.

The answers will be there.

Father, I have read all the books.

And what they tell me is that your corneas have been damaged beyond repair.

You're not looking hard enough!

I will not be blind.

Do you hear me?

I will not be blind!

- (TORTURER SHOUTS) - (WHIP CRACKS)

- (WHIP CRACKS) - (SCREAMS)

- (WHIP CRACKS) - (SCREAMS)

What?

What?

Don't get any ideas.

- (PEOPLE GRUNTING, SHOUTING) - (SWORDS CLANGING)

Lieutenant Commander Wren.

Yes, Lieutenant.

- Open the gate! - (METAL SQUEAKING)

Yes, sir!

And so…

The great Trivantian, Toliver, wounded but not dead…

Pulled himself to his tired feet and mounted his horse.

- Although thunder and rain… - (BOARD WHOOSHING)

…dampened his senses,

he guided his tired men through the tall grass of the Bloody Plains…

…to the Ganite stronghold.

Under his command, 20 Trivantian soldiers…

- (SWORD SCRAPES) - …held the Ganite hordes at bay…

- (BATTLE CRIES) - …all through the night

and into the next morning until the battalions arrived to turn the tide.

Where are you taking me?

You'll see.

I've never been so high up before.

Yeah?

When I was younger, I used to climb all these towers.

They were the only places I felt safe being sighted.

Guess I loved going where I knew no one else could come.

And that's how I found this place.

I've taken care of it ever since.

People used to celebrate their sight.

We make art to be heard or felt or smelled.

Everything in their world was meant to be seen.

- People too. - What?

We were meant to be seen too.

Hmm.

This one was my favorite.

I used to make up stories about the girl in the pictures.

I named her Gwendolyn.

Her name is Alice.

You can read.

The book is called Alice in Wonderland.

"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank

and of having nothing to do."

"Once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading,

but it had no pictures or conversations in it."

No! (SOBS)

"'And what is the use of a book, ' thought Alice",

-'without pictures or conversations?'" -(SCREAMS)

Stop.

Big brother, you are holding up well.

Your marks are nothing compared to the scars you left on my back.

- (SIGHS) - What have you done with Haniwa?

Haniwa?

You fear for your daughter. (CHUCKLES)

Mmm.

Fear is worse than the pain, isn't it?

It was like that for me as a boy.

The pain you inflicted on me was...

Wasn't nearly as great as the fear of knowing it was coming,

- that you were coming. - (BREATHING RAGGEDLY)

And I promise you,

Haniwa will know that same fear every night, as I did.

Edo, please just let her go.

You were my brother.

I'm still your brother. I'm s... I'm sorry.

I should've protected you. But I was forced...

You don't know what sorry is. Not yet.

But you will.

'Cause I will keep you here…

And whip you every night for every night you whipped me.

And years from now,

when I finally decide to kill you,

you will weep with gratitude.

Keep him conscious.

- Edo. - I want him to feel every lash.

No. Edo, just... just let her go.

Edo. Edo!

Edo!

Edo, no! Let her go!

Edo! (SCREAMS)

Tak.

We'll stop just long enough to piss and fill our canteens.

Yes, sir.

I wanna wash up.

I don't want you near my men.

They're hungry and tired,

and they're not fond of witches under the best of circumstances.

Come on.

How many witches have you talked to before?

None before you.

If I'm the first, how do you know we're something to be feared?

People like you destroyed the old world with your machines and your poisons.

Your kind were responsible for the deaths of millions.

And you for the death of thousands.

You wiped the Alkenny…

My tribe, off the face of the earth.

They knew the price for harboring witches. It was the law of the kingdom.

You killed children. Babies.

I wasn't there.

And what would you have done if you were?

I'm the witch.

Who's murdered more people? You or me?

My queen,

I present to you the greatest minds of Pennsa, your council of state.

My council of what?

Your council of state, my queen.

Uh, to advise you, to execute your commands.

We are here to assemble not a council of state, but a council of war.

Majesty, protocol requires that a council of war be assembled

following an official declaration of war.

He is going to school me in protocol.

War was declared on us.

Captain Gosset, I worry that you don't grasp the stakes here.

Rest assured, I do, Majesty.

And everything I say here is with all due respect

and in accordance with your wishes.

If we are to withstand the might of the Trivantian army,

we must shore up our defenses across the kingdom.

- Captain Gosset... Defenses?

We have been charged by God to defeat the Trivantians.

We must prepare to attack, not defend.

Sibeth... - Who?

Forgive me, Your Majesty.

Princess Maghra, if you have something to say, then say it.

Paya has been weakened by the loss of Kanzua

and the chaos in the wake of your presumed death.

We just consecrated a new capital.

Perhaps we should spend some time tending to our kingdom,

organizing and fortifying our armies

while, of course, remaining vigilant to the threat from Trivantes.

Everyone… out.

Out!

- (WHISPERING) - (FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING)

Sibeth...

Did you hear what just happened?

What?

A room full of people quietly questioning my authority,

wondering if, in fact, they're even bound by it anymore.

A captain who argues with me.

Politicians entertaining treasonous thoughts,

all of which end with our heads removed from our bodies

and our royal bloodline wiped out for all time.

And in that room full of betrayal,

my own sister contradicts me.

War is suicide.

How many people are you willing to sacrifice for your lie?

Those who die will die gloriously…

For Paya…

For the new world that will be built by our children.

Who will also die along with the rest of us

when the Trivantians burn Paya to the ground.

You cannot believe we can actually defeat them.

What was I spared for if not for this?

God put a sighted child in my belly,

a child who'll be named for our father,

in order to make this kingdom the vessel through which sight returns to the world.

It is my destiny.

God help us. You actually believe what you're saying.

We will conquer Trivantes,

absorb their armies

and become the one true kingdom on this land.

Sibeth.

Sibeth.

There must be another way.

You yourself stood by…

When Tamacti Jun drew his blade, with your blessing, to kill me.

And God did not let it happen.