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ACT I // CHAPTER 1

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Transcript:

Syvis: (exasperated) Children, please. Go play somewhere else.

Nuvian: Get back here!

Yaereene: Pick up the pace if you wanna catch me.

Syvis: (slams table) YAEREENE ODOVIA—

Yaereene: (distant) Sorry, mama!

Syvis: (sighs) I swear . . . Hastios, are you accompanying me to Winmist tomorrow?

Hastios: Yes, I am.

Syvis: Good. Your father is out of town at another ball and won’t be back until the day after next.

Hastios: What about Nuvian? And Yaereene?

Syvis: Nuvian is coming with, as well. He’s old enough to start grasping how our business influences everything. It’s your sister I’m worried about.

Hastios: (hesitant) Nobody is here to watch her . . .

Syvis: I know. If she just accepted this is her path to success, I wouldn’t be worried. She’s talking about going out and “saving” people. Are you kidding me? She’s eleven. She’ll be whoring herself out by that time. I don’t know what I’m going to do about her. At this rate she’ll bring this family’s name to the grave. We’ll be nothing. You heard what my grandfather did. Spouting off about corruption inside our allies, what an idiot. It’s a miracle we got our name back on the map after he died.

Hastios: Have you considered letting her do what she wants?

Syvis: Hastios, what?

Hastios: Give her a taste of freedom; let her think she has control. When you think the time is right, rip it out from underneath her.

Syvis: You always give me the brightest ideas, son.

Hastios: (jokingly) Maybe she’ll wander off tomorrow and we won’t have to deal with her again.

Syvis: (sighs) One can only hope.

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