Get those boards laid down.

Come on, push! Put your backs into it!

I'm just about to go into the legislation meeting.

Can you repeat that?

We found their temples, the trawler man's renegades, just like you said we had to.

We're...

Asking your permission to go in.

If you give us time to get this done, we can give you the results you've been looking for.

Something you can take to the press.

How long?

We're... We're in the mud right now. Just trying to get free. We'll be there by dusk.

It's too late. You understand that, don't you? It's much too late. We're about to vote. Listen to me, you mulling dunce. Listen. You called us to this hunt. You paid for these troops of yours to march out here and serve in our care because you wanted us to

kill a god.

You entered into a pact that Gaj and I, we understand, as something sacred.

But you must have imagined something else, some kind of business arrangement, because

then you change the terms, and now you want to change them again, because all you know how to do is dance and squirm?

So if we're now renegotiating, we have a new offer for you.

For every minute you make us wait to pursue our quarry, we'll hunt down one of your soldiers instead.

Sister.

We'll take their skulls, and we'll take take their skin and we'll wear these things as trophies

to the glory of the beast that stalks in the long grass.

And then we'll ride into the city.

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