The Northlander Page #2

Ahh! No!

I know what you're thinking.

You first.

This is the same as above.

It's how we got in.

We got in because you pulled us

to what could have

been our deaths.

Did we have another choice?

Let's keep moving.

Mari?

Mari?

The bride:
That's terrible!

You have been haunting me

with that since last night.

Crypt architect:
It's

based on a philosophy.

The walls of this place

will not protect all we knew.

Only the most important thing.

The bride:
Why do you

follow me with that thing?

I can't see both your eyes,

I want to see your eyes.

I want to see your eyes

like I saw them last night.

James.

Put it down.

Put it down quickly.

C'mon, put it down!

You're crazy and you're mad.

And god, I love you.

Grandmother:
It's not

something we can find.

Only something

we can know in ourselves.

Don't worry my child,

that's what I am here for.

Little girl:
I know

she loves me.

I know she's gone

but she won't be long.

She's my hero

is what I told my class.

She told me lots of people are

going to sleep these days

because of the ocean.

Crypt architect:
A crypt.

Made when the season of man

came to an end.

Grandmother:
No one lives

forever, my child.

That's why life is so marvelous.

And every day we live is a gift.

Little girl:
I love it

when she tells me stories

about the whole big

world that she sees.

Grandmother:
That little

light deep in your heart,

is your soul.

Use it to make the

world a better place.

The bride:
You're

crazy and you're mad.

And god, I love you.

And god, I love you.

I love you so much.

Crypt architect:
All things

must come to a close.

Little girl:
I just

want her to come home.

Grandmother:
With love,

the future is yours to make.

Crypt architect:
This is

an ode to the era we knew.

To live to see the

great day that dawns.

Little girl:
No! No! No! No!

Grandmother:
No.

Don't make this hard for me.

Little girl:
She

can't go to sleep.

The bride:
Let me see him. No!

James, you've got to listen

to me, James, listen.

I'm here now, alright?

I'm going to give you my blood

and you're going

to be fine, okay?

Stop!

The bride:
Because I'm

not going to let you go.

You hear me?

I will never let go.

I'm not going to let you go.

I love you

grandmother:
It's just a

long walk you're going on.

Anywhere in the world

will be your home.

It's just a long walk

you're going on.

This is the answer.

Mari.

What's wrong with you?

They tried.

They knew their time was up.

Love.

That is to be human.

To give and be vulnerable.

This is no different.

This is, cygnus!

We have no future on

this wasted planet!

No, you need to understand...

I saw the humans at the

end of their days.

If they can feel something,

why can't I?

It looks like you can.

I want to say something

but I don't know the words.

Show me.

Shh.

I thought you could

see everything

without looking.

You still think I

can see everything?

Come in.

Why are you here?

I have a question

about some kids.

What kids?

- Us.

- No.

Please, I...

I can't.

I insist.

You've been spending way

too many days alone.

In fact, me being

here pestering you

is good for your health.

You are not good for my health.

You know, a game

can remind us how

to play in life.

- A game?

- Yeah.

Okay, I...

I call this one

want,

do,

remember.

I'll start.

I remember...

It goes in that order.

I remember...

The last time you

were so focused.

You would sleep-walk

in the night

and always end up

outside of my hut.

I wasn't thinking clearly.

Of course you weren't.

You were asleep.

Okay, my turn.

I remember...

When you

were so caught up in your mind

that you forgot to

put the fire out

and you just about

burnt your hut down

and we had to save you.

I was meditating.

You were naked!

Doesn't change the fact.

You're next.

Now I'm done remembering.

The next is, uh,

want.

I...

I always wanted to

create a tablet that

tells the seasons.

Hm.

I've always wanted

to spend more time in the water.

Swimming deeply

where the world accepts me for

all I am.

I accept you.

Since we were little.

They used to bother you.

You saw what others didn't.

I saw once that

those two could have

made quite a pair.

So did he.

One more thing.

I didn't see this coming.

And I can't see any further.

But I remember

telling cygnus under a spell

that somewhere dark,

where there is light

that has an answer

I think it had something

to do with all of us.

You know cygnus

lived a lonely life

in the shadow too.

I know you miss them, Elias.

Whatever is happening now

is more than any of us expected.

Listen.

We don't have a choice now.

There was a time when we

weren't surrounded by death.

If cygnus finds a way

then we are along the trail.

Cygnus:
I see us.

This is who we are.

The people of land and water.

And that's it.

There's nothing more.

All we can do is move

across this place

all we can do is move

and survive.

Mari:
Is that what

you were looking for?

Cygnus:
Yes.

Mari.

You have to be careful

and protect yourself.

They won't stop

until someone's dead

and I do not want it to be you.

Cygnus.

I'll teach you how to

get your bearings here

so at least you can get back.

So if I'm captured...

cygnus, stop.

We don't know what's

going to happen

but as long as one of us

can make it back alive...

cygnus!

I was set up to kill you.

I had no choice.

I protected your life.

Mari:
I know that.

You are not who

I thought you were.

How would you know?

Because you brought me back.

From what?

From dying.

They took me in because

I knew how to kill

and then they made

a deal with me.

It wasn't my intent to join

or belong or anything!

I went with them to

learn their secrets.

Where they hunt, where they

hide, and then I would vanish.

They set me up!

I hunt too.

I'm just like you!

Yes!

Yes!

I am a killer!

I kill!

I hunt! I skin!

But when my life was on the

line, I didn't think of myself.

Everything I said to you

was the truth, mari.

Cygnus, I see you!

You are not who I

thought you were.

Just the old scars, please.

Okay.

Hmm.

I believe

if I don't know the answer

then my hands do.

Good luck with your

archiving, shappa.

This...

This is where...

This is where they should

have been at the bluff.

This is the river here...

Ugh!

Where are you, cygnus?

Cygnus:
They are right.

I am their hunter.

And I have a promise to keep.

Where does cygnus fit?

The river

is over here.

Unh!

Where did I go wrong?

Right there.

Right there.

The snakes.

Cygnus.

The end.

It comes with him.

- Shappa!

- Cygnus!

What did you find?

I found what they left behind.

You should think me

a scholar after all.

You're a hunter and

a damned good one.

I'm just glad you're back.

We'll see for how long.

Come on!

Are you still the hunter?

Whatever I am,

after what I saw,

I see time differently now.

When you was gone,

I thought you had come

back in my dream.

You was not killing no more.

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