Noah Page #3

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Ham!

Ham!

What are you doing, Noah?

The wickedness is not just in them.

It's in all of us.

I saw it.

No.

Noah.

There's goodness in us.

Look at our boys.

Shem's loyalty. Japheth's kindness.

Ham's integrity.

Good men.

They'd be good fathers.

Shem is blinded by desire.

Ham is covetous.

And Japheth lives only to please.

I am no better.

And you?

Is there anything you would not do,

good or bad, for those three boys?

We would both choose to kill

in order to protect our children.

Yes.

We're no different.

We were weak and we were selfish

to think we could set ourselves apart.

We will work, complete the task,

and then we'll die.

The same as everyone else.

They are children!

They are our children, Noah!

Have you no mercy?

The time for mercy has passed.

Now our punishment begins.

Ham!

Ham!

Grandfather?

Grandfather?

Did you bring me something?

Did Noah plant the seed I gave him?

Yes.

And in all that forest

there were no berries?

Shem promised me berries.

I'm sorry.

I didn't know.

It's a pity.

Then why did you come here?

It's Noah.

He leaves our boys with no one.

Shem has Ila, but she's barren.

There'll be no other wives,

so no children.

Justice.

The Creator destroys this world

because we corrupted it.

So we ourselves must be destroyed.

No. I can't believe that's true.

Not when I look at my sons.

All they desire is love.

Isn't that all their hearts need

to be good?

Who is good? Who is wicked?

How am I supposed to know

what is right?

That choice is Noah's.

Not mine. Not yours.

It sounds like he has made it.

So then you will not help me?

I don't know if I even could.

But if I tried, it could cause pain

and possibly tragedy.

And in the end,

it would just come back to Noah again.

Is that what you wish?

I want my sons to have children.

I want them to be happy.

I can't bear to think of them dying alone.

Out of the way! Coming through!

Please!

Get away!

No. No, no...

It's all right. It's all right. I'm not...

I'm not going to hurt you.

I have food.

Here.

What do you want?

Nothing.

Are you alone?

Yes.

And you?

I can help you get away.

No.

Well, then, I'll stay a little while.

If that is all right?

My name is Na'el.

Shem!

Go and find them and bring them back.

Be careful.

Ham?

Don't be afraid, granddaughter.

Don't be afraid.

Grandfather?

Yes.

What are you doing down here?

I'm looking for berries. I have a craving.

Come and help me look for them.

My eyes aren't

as good as they used to be.

I have to find Ham.

There's time enough for that.

Come here.

Come.

Come here and help me.

They're here somewhere.

They're here somewhere, berries.

I know there are berries.

There's nothing here, Grandfather.

- Let me take you to Noah.

- No.

No need for that. You go now.

You go.

Wait. Wait.

Ten years you've been with my own.

With my own family.

Ten years. And you love them?

Shem? And Noah?

He saved my life.

Raised me.

Yes, he did.

Yes.

And you are now as his own daughter.

My own great-granddaughter.

Ten years in the shadow of my home,

and yet

I have never given you my blessing.

May I ?

Ham! Ila!

You can go now. Go to him.

You go. Go now.

Ila!

Ila!

Ila!

We have to get back...

We have to go.

We have to go. Come on. Now!

I am a man. Made in Your image.

Why will You not converse with me?

I give life.

I take life away. As You do!

And I am like You, am I not?

Speak to me.

Speak to me!

It has begun!

Death comes from the heavens!

This rain

is meant to wash us off

the face of this world.

But we are men.

We decide if we live or die.

We are men!

And men united are invincible!

Do you want to live?

Yeah!

We kill the giants!

We kill Noah!

We take the ark!

Yeah!

Noah!

Where's Ham?

Get it off me, no!

No,no,no!

We have to get away!

I won't leave you. I won't!

Ham!

Father, help! Help!

- Help her!

- Help me, please!

Please, help me, please!

Please... Someone please help me!

Help me!

No!

Ham! Ham!

Ham!

Ham!

Ham!

Ham!

Samyaza!

Samyaza! Samyaza!

- Noah!

- Where is Ham?

Ham is through! Quickly!

Run!

Ham.

Ham!

Faster!

Forward!

Protect your mother. Protect them all.

Part!

My Creator,

forgive me.

The Creator brings him home.

Ham?

Ham?

Shem. Shem, go inside.

Go inside.

They are upon us. Go inside!

Good-bye, son of Adam.

Son, where are you?

Ham!

Ham?

Ham?

It's all right.

- Shem!

- Father!

Japheth, where are you?

- Ila, I'm here!

- Father!

Mother, where's Father?

Please, Noah,

there must be something we can do.

We can drag ropes.

They cannot all be soldiers, Father.

They are just people. And there's room.

There is no room for them.

Soon everything we knew will be gone.

All that is left of Creation

will lie within these walls.

Outside,

just the waters of chaos again.

You are angry.

You judge me.

Let me tell you a story.

The first story my father told me,

and the first story that I told each of you.

In the beginning,

there was nothing.

Nothing but the silence

of an infinite darkness.

But the breath of The Creator

fluttered against

the face of the void, whispering,

"Let there be light. "

And light was.

And it was good.

The first day.

And then the formless light

began to take on substance and shape.

A second day.

And our world was born.

Our beautiful, fragile home.

And a great,

warming light nurtured its days.

And a lesser light ruled the nights.

And there was evening. And morning.

Another day.

And the waters of the world

gathered together,

and in their midst emerged dry land.

Another day passed.

And the ground put forth

the growing things.

A thick blanket of green

stretching across all Creation.

And the waters, too, teemed with life.

Great creatures of the deep

that are no more.

Vast multitudes of fish,

some of which may still

swim beneath these seas.

And soon

the sky was streaming with birds.

And there was evening.

And there was morning. A fifth day.

Now the whole world

was full of living beings.

Everything that creeps,

everything that crawls,

and every beast

that walks upon the ground.

And it was good. It was all good.

There was light and air and water

and soil, all clean and unspoiled.

There were plants and fish

and fowl and beast,

each after their own kind.

All part of the greater whole.

All in their place.

And all was in balance. It was paradise.

A jewel in The Creator's palm.

Then The Creator made Man.

And by his side, Woman.

Father and mother of us all.

He gave them a choice.

Follow the temptation of darkness

or hold on to the blessing of light.

But they ate from the forbidden fruit.

Their innocence was extinguished.

And so for the ten generations

since Adam, sin has walked within us.

Brother against brother.

Nation against nation.

Man against Creation.

We murdered each other.

We broke the world. We did this.

Man did this.

Everything that was beautiful,

everything that was good,

we shattered.

Now, it begins again.

Air, water, earth, plant,

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