Serko Page #2

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We haven't done anything wrong,

We're just passing through.

Haven't come to bother the locals.

Hey, Serko?

We're good guys! We're not bad guys.

We don't want to kill or rob anyone!

Serko, get a hold of yourself

I forbid you to be scarod.

Fear is for little creatures

not for a great horse like you,

or a Cossack like me!

Move on!

Go right ahead!

Who are you?

A traveller.

What're you doing here?

I mean you no harm,

Nelther to you nor to anyone else!

Believe me, Iswear to you.

On all of the Saints If Hoty Russia!

Then why are you aiming

that gun at my hearI?

My horse, he's fallen.

Will you help me?

No snowflake,

ever falls where it shouldn't.

Looks like we came at just the right time!

You sure are nalve, you trust men too much.

How do you know,

we won't just drop you down into the void?

You know that we don't like

long-nosed creatures.

Get up, get up, Serko. Hear me?

Get up! Get up!

Get up! Serko.

Get up!

Serko.

Well done! Go ahead, get up! Well done!

I'll get you out of here.

You fell, sweetie pie.

Thank you, old Tunguz.

You've been helpfuI.

This is for you. It's made of silver.

It's a talisman.

It will keep eviI spirits a way.

Don't thank me, I was glad I could help.

How can I tell of the winds,

of the extreme cold making

our friends go totally numb?

By telling you that it's such a cold,

that you become impervious,

to the insidious death slowly

welling up inside you.

Inexorably.

But if on the next day, as if by magic,

life has overcome death,

you were born under a lucky star!

Prince Mangi,

You fiy away on your horse,

to the Milky Way,

Everyone admired you.

All except your fiancee,

who, on seeing you always together,

became jealous.

Why are you always on your horse

and never with me?

Can it be that you love

your horse more than me?

Who are you?

Semzhid. My name is Semzhid.

Stay still.

The bearI It's right there!

You're a great hunter!

You've been very brave,

Go back to sleep.

This too? I'll do it.

This is for you.

You're like my motherI,

Always worried I'll get ill!

Cossack, I see you're getting better.

I'm glad, You are at home here.

Is my daughter taking good care of you?

Yes, Thanks to her, I feeI alive again.

My thanks to you all.

You are a great and brave hunter.

You confronted and killed

the bear, all alone.

You've earned our respect, Cossack!

How can I thank you?

By being my guest for as long

as you wish, son!

Most honourable host, I'm on a mission.

I'm in a hurry, I must leave,

I must speak to the Tsar,

of the terrible fate tgat's befallen

the horses and men of my area.

Cossack, You can't leave just like that!

You will offend the whole tribe,

and what will my daughter say?

But I have to leave...

Cossack, I'll sing so that your horse takes

you wherever you want to go!

You horse is the most beautifuI of all,

I've never seen one so beautifuI before,

he is the colour of clouds.

He said it right...

Your horse is the gentiest,

He sheds tears,

when you're sad...

He is the gentlest no doubt...

He's so gracefuI,

that he flies over mountains,

and gallops away to the clouds,

and takes you where

no horseman has ever been,

His horse is the most beautifuI of all,

I've never seen one so beautifuI before,

in heaven or on earth,

in the stars or on the sun.

He said it right...

Sorry...

But my stomach would've torn

in half if I hadn't fed it.

eating a single hot meaI.

Let anyone who has never been hungry

take the food from his hands.

So I swallowed whatever I could find.

Grass, like my horse.

Rats sometimes!

And even my horse's dung once.

I'll find the Tsar.

Even if he's at the other end of the earth,

Or on the other side of the moon.

And what will you say to your Tsar?

I'll tell him that those men,

can't exterminate our fine littie horses.

If they disappear from our land,

we might disappear as well.

Without our Amursky horses,

We can't live there it's too cold.

The Cossacks must obey the Tsar.

I swore to the icons like my father,

but the Tsar must obey God,

and God created these horses,

the best horses ever!

The Tsar must hear me, I'II let him know.

I'll find the Tsar even,

if I must go through Hell.

Why are you always riding your horse

instead of being with me?

Why do you love your horse more than me?

One night, the betrothed avenged

herself by killing the horse,

stabbing it with a knife.

Mangi you spent your life

caressing your horse,

running your hans through hismane.

Soflly, slowly, languidiy...

over and over till the hairs

of the mane began to make music...

We'll need a lot of strength, Serko...

See that, that's Venus, or Jupiter,

I can't remember,

but I do know it's over there

over there is the Tsar, Sleep well.

Don't be frightened...

But I'm not afraid.

I am here to serve you...

Would you like anything before sleeping?

I just need some sleep.

A good night's sleep to be in shape

tomorrow morning, you understand?

Good night, Semzhid...

What are you up to?

Just give in, big bear!

Eat Serko, eat.

That's all we've got loft.

There you go, eat something.

Who are you?

Can you hear me?

Where are you from?

What have you done to end up like this?

Can you hear me?

We're nobody anymore, Nobody...

Only beasts to the slaughter!

Get away from us, we're bas luck!

I'm going to see the Tsar,

I'll tell him about you!

You can't treat men like this!

The Tasr will know about it! I swear!

We don't mean anything to him anymore,

nor to anyone else.

Not even to Him, up there!

I can't understand a word you're saying!

Who are you talking about?

You idiot! The Tsar!

And God above, who has forsaken us!

God still exists for me,

you bunch of miscreants.

Shut up! You mangy mutts.

Hey Cossack, are you the one

getting them excited?

Where did you get that uniform?

You a deserter?

Come over here a minute,

Let me see your papers.

I'm on a mission,

I've come from Amuria.

I am Cossack Dimitri Nidolayevich.

Yourgest son of Sotnik Nikolai Pechkov.

I'm under ColoneI Korsakoff,

the governor of Blagoveschensk.

I'm on my way to see th Tsar.

Your mission order!

By ImperiaI order, Officer.

Under order of secrecy!

Get the hell out of here,

Watch out if I ever see you aroud again!

Send a message to my fater that I'm alive,

and that all is well.

Hey, you, What are you doing?

That's my horse!

You've no right to take him.

Yeah, well keep your midget horse.

Is he an albino or what?

And you just let him get away wiht it.

Peince, my son is a simpleton.

He has no idea what he's doing!

I'm just glad he's still alive,

as you've told my he

was seen far from here.

Sotnik Nikolai Pechkov.

A Cossack who requests

an audience with the Tsar,

without asking his Govenor's permission,

is a traitor to his uniform!

Better be sincere than strong,

better be honest than brutaI,

better be fair thae contermptibie.

These were your principies.

Prince, that my sons swore

to uphold before you!

I know, I know, Your son made it to BaikaI.

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