Krull Page #8

YNYR:

No. They are sad, solitary

creatures, rarely seen.

ERGO:

Once is enough, thank you.

COLWYN:

He saved our lives.

TORQUIL:

(glance toward fire)

But not our supper.

Ergo sees smoke rising from a pot on the fire.

ERGO:

(running to the pot)

Oh, my poor stew!

TORQUIL:

Oh, my poor stomach.

EXT. FOREST CLEARING - NEAR DAWN

The band is asleep, Torquil on guard. As the eastern horizon

grows light, Torquil wakes Ynyr and Colwyn.

EXT. FOREST, A FEW YARDS FROM CLEARING - DAWN

Colwyn sits against a tree, brow furrowed in concentration,

the golden glaive spinning in midair in front of him. Ynyr

and Torquil look on.

COLWYN:

I can't reach her.

YNYR:

What do you see?

COLWYN:

Darkness. Tunnels and corridors.

(pause)

Wait.

INT. CORRIDOR IN KRULL - INTERCUT

Lyssa moves down the windowless corridor with the white

leopard at her side.

COLWYN (OVER)

(faintly)

Lyssa ...

LYSSA (OVER)

Colwyn ...

COLWYN (OVER)

Where is the Fortress?

LYSSA (OVER)

I don't know. It's a maze of

tunnels. I can't see out.

COLWYN (OVER)

I will find you. I will be with you.

LYSSA (OVER)

I know it.

COLWYN (OVER)

(fading)

I love you, Lyssa, I love you ...

LYSSA (OVER)

Colwyn. Colwyn.

(in her own voice)

I love you, Colwyn.

RESUME - COLWYN ET. AL.

COLWYN:

She can't see out. She can't tell us

where the Fortress is.

YNYR:

Yes, they knew of your first

contact, so they drove her below.

COLWYN:

She was very faint. I was barely

able to reach her.

YNYR:

The deeper she goes, the harder it

is to contact her. Once she is below

the second level, you will not be

able to reach her at all.

COLWYN:

(leaps to his feet, shouts

angrily)

I will find her!

He hurls his glaive at a nearby tree: the weapon bores clean

through the trunk, then through two more before it imbeds

itself in a fourth. But anger gives way to despair; he

buries his face in his hands.

YNYR:

(hand on his shoulder)

We'll seek an Emerald Seer. They

have great powers of vision.

TORQUIL:

There's an Emerald Circle a few

leagues from here.

(moves to Colwyn)

We'll find her.

COLWYN:

(looks up)

Forgive me. It's childish to cry.

TORQUIL:

(thumbs the tears from

Colwyn's cheeks)

Those are not child's tear. A child

cries for himself, a man cries for

those he loves.

RESUME - LYSSA

She and the leopard are forced deeper in the Fortress, down

yet another flight of stairs.

EXT. HILL OVERLOOKING STONE LAKE - DAY

Colwyn and Torquil top the hill and look down at the lake,

the surface of which looks as if it had been instantly

frozen in the midst of a great storm.

TORQUIL:

We can save half a day by crossing

the Stone Lake.

YNYR:

(coming up)

Many have perished in that maze.

TORQUIL:

(grin)

No maze to me, my fried. It is where

we take refuge when they hunt us.

COLWYN:

Lead us across.

EXT. STONE LAKE - DAY

At the edge of the lake, an enormous wave is poised to

break, frozen in blue stone, even to the froth that caps it.

Torquil leads the band into the maze.

ERGO:

(walking beside Ynyr)

I wish you'd tell me why that

foolish boy decided to join up with

these thieves.

The little man suddenly lets out a yelp and jumps back: He

is staring into the jaws of a huge shark frozen in the wave

(as was all the marine life in the lake, including gulls

with one foot touching the water). He steers around the jaws

and catches up to Ynyr.

YNYR:

He didn't join them. They joined

him.

ERGO:

And who is he that they should join

him?

YNYR:

He is the King.

ERGO:

Well, at least I'm glad to see you

have a sense of humor. That's the

first smile I've seen on that gloomy

face of your's ...

(Ynyr is not smiling)

... isn't it? It isn't. Oh no. Oh

dear. Oh now I've gone and done it.

He scurries forward and tugs at Colwyn's jacket.

ERGO:

Your kingship ... your lord high

mightiness ... when I called you a

... a ... whatever I called you, I

didn't realize that you were ...

were ...

COLWYN:

I was hoping I might be your friend.

ERGO:

(staggered)

My friend.

COLWYN:

I have need of friends.

ERGO:

(flattered nearly senseless)

No more, my lord - my friend. With

Ergo the Magnificent by your side,

your enemies are dead men.

The little man pulls out a carving knife and, with a

flourish, tucks it in his belt - slicing through his outer

garment as he does so. Colwyn glances down and sees red

liquid oozing from the cut. Ergo follows his gaze.

ERGO:

(staggering)

Argh! I'm dying!

Colwyn notices seeds oozing out with the liquid and samples

it with his finger.

COLWYN:

Not yet, my friend. It's your tomato

that's dying.

ERGO:

What? Oh no! Better it was me. There

isn't another good tomato within a

hundred leagues.

He pulls out the stabbed tomato and kisses it tearfully.

ERGO:

Oh, my poor baby.

He looks up to see Ynyr smiling broadly.

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