[♪ musical swirl ♪]
[bang of door]
[sizzling]
[clanking]
[Peet sighs]
[panting]
[hissing]
[sniffing]
[sniff]
[sniffing]
[hisses]
[blood-curdling howl]
[Nia panting]
[growling in the distance]
Without that blasted wagon,
we’ll never reach the Blapp river crossing before daylight,
[Podo gulping]
What’s our plan?
To stay ahead of the fangs, lad,
But where are we going?
-Dugtown, -[Janner gulps]
We’re moving to Dugtown?
Just a stop along the way, child,
The way to where?
There’s a fella there can get us passage to the Ice Prairies,
The Ice Prairies?
What’s in the Ice Prairies besides bomnubbles
and snow blizzards?
Well, hope, for starters,
Because fangs slow down in the cold,
we’d be safer up north, right?
Aye, lad,
Now yer thinkin’ like a battle captain,
Can we light a lantern?
It’s spooky out here,
Not in the forest,
Fire draws all manner of uncouth creatures,
Blats,
Horned hounds,
Toothy cows,
At least we’d see them,,,
They’d see us first,
Aye,
Which is why we’ll need to lie low in a cave
or a moonberry thicket during daylight,
We’ll move at night,
Isn’t Anklejelly just a bit that way?
We could hide there,
It’s a ramble, but we could reach it afore deepnight,
I’d be thankful for anywhere with a locked door
between us and the fangs,
So be it, Break’s over,
[all panting]
[Podo groans]
[thump of Podo\'s leg]
[reptilian shriek]
[Leeli gasps]
[reptilian shriek]
[Podo groaning]
[reptilian shriek]
[Podo grunts]
[wham]
[Podo groaning]
[clank of sword]
-[Podo groaning] -[Fang hissing]
[a different Fang growls]
Run, Now!
[Tink gasps]
[Fang hisses]
[Fang growls]
[Podo groans while fighting]
[statue crackles]
[Janner gulps]
Janner, back up,
Slowly,
[Janner gasps]
[Fang hisses]
[Fang growls]
-[whack] -[Janner yells]
[Fang groans]
[Fang growls]
-[Nia groans] -[smash]
[Nia gasps]
[Fang hisses]
[Podo grunts]
Grandpa! [grunts]
Podo grunts]
Get inside!
I’m right behi--
-[Fangs groan] -[Podo grumbles]
[Fangs hiss]
There’s too many!
We have to help Grandpa!
[Fangs groaning] [Podo grunting]
-[Podo groans] -[Fangs hiss]
[Fangs tauntingly hiss]
[shriek from the forest]
[shrieking]
[Fangs groan]
[footsteps approaching]
[loud bark]
-[barking] -[Fangs groaning]
[Peet shrieking]
[wham]
[Nugget whimpering]
[Podo gasps]
[Podo grunts]
[Leelie] Nugget?
[Podo groans]
[giggles] NUGGET!!!
[barks]
[Nugget whining]
He’s alive!
[Nugget whines]
But how?
I gave him too many drops,
[Fangs groaning]
Capture the Igiby’s and get rid of the Bird Man!
Run now!
Fangs are headed this way,
Go!
I’m already taking care of it,
Igibys, inside!
Aren’t you coming?
Isn’t he coming?
Go on, girlie-feather,
You hide,
I’ll hold them at bay,
[Podo groans]
It’s his decision, lass,
Tink, light yer lantern,
[Nugget whining]
Take care of Mister Peet, all right Nugget?
[Nugget barks]
[Nugget growls]
[Podo groans]
[distant fighting sounds]
[Nia sighs]
[Nia gasps] Hmm,
I’d rather face the storm standing on deck
than burrowed in a hold,
Papa,
Aye, aye,
[door slams closed]
[Fang marching sounds]
[Fangs growl]
[Nugget growls softly]
Steady, boy, steady,
[splat]
[Peet groans]
[Nugget growls and barks]
Steady,
Now!
[Nugget howls]
[Fangs groan]
[Peet screams]
[bang] [fighting sounds]
[victorious howl from Nugget]
[Leeli gasps] That’s Nugget!
Aye, lass,
He’ll thin their ranks at least, before,,,
Before what?
Uh, before they know what hit ‘em,
[Nugget barking]
[Fangs groaning]
[sniffs the air] [groans]
O, they’re close,
Very close,
Oh, I can smell their putrid Iggy-sweat,
Remember, they’re mine!
[Slarb groans and hisses]
[Slarb hisses]
[evil laugh]
Open it!
-[Fangs groan] -[Peet shrieks]
[wham]
[fighting sounds]
[Nugget growls]
Push them back!
Cut them off!
[Nugget growls]
[Fangs groan]
[Peet shrieks]
[Fangs groan]
[Nugget growls and whimpers]
[wham]
Maybe they have a troll,
Nah, we’d smell it,
That’s a battering ram,
-[wham] -[Leeli gasps]
[wham]
It’s cracking!
Careful!
We don’t want to battle a blaze in here,
[wham]
Maybe we do,,,
Speak your mind, then, and quick!
[wham]
If we set that old staircase on fire,
it’ll bring every Horned Hound and Toothy Cow
in Glipwood Forest,
Aye, that it would,
[wham]
Bring me that shield,
[Tink groaning]
[wham]
Once we’re through that door, nothing else comes in,
Understand?
Arm yourselves,
[wham]
[Tink grunting]
[wham]
[Nia sighs]
Go on my signal, and stick to my hip like a barnacle,
Are you ready?
-[wham] -[Fangs grunting]
[Fang groans]
[fighting sounds]
I hope you gribbles love a rumpus, cuz I brung you one!
[Fang groans]
[fighting sounds]
Starboard-Aft, boy!
[Janner gasps]
There’s yer Helmer blood wakin’ up,
Three more steps,
[Fangs groan]
Seize them!
[fighting sounds]
You mizzable lizards!
You’re a slippy ol’ stumper,
But this time your brood is cornered,
We’ll soon see who’s cornered,
You’ve not seen my wrath when it’s stoked proper,
Head back, lad, and protect your family,
I’ll be but a minute,
[angry groan]
[fighting sounds]
[Slarb hisses]
[fighting sounds]
[Podo groans]
Humanssss,
Even the strong ones are weak,
And now, the jewels of Anniera will be mine,
[Podo grunts]
[shrieking in pain]
[slam]
[Podo groaning]
[faint battle sounds]
[pounding at the door]
[Podo] Lemme in!
Are you hurt?
[Podo groans] I’ll be fit fer a frolic soon as I,,,
catch my breath,
There must be a hundred Fangs,
Two hundred I’d wager,
Now come over’n give your ol’ Podo a swig o’ that brine,
-[Leelie gasps] -[Nia gasps]
Leeli, my pack, quickly,
[Podo groans]
Stay with us,
Please,,,
[Podo groaning]
Grandpa?
[Podo groans]
-[Janner gasps] -[Tink gasps]
-[Nia gasps] Papa?
[Podo groans] Sing the song for your Podo,
[Janner] Momma, what do we do?
[Nia stiffling cries]
♪ My love has gone across the sea ♪
♪ To find,,, ♪
[Tink cries]
[whistleharp music]
♪ A country far and fair ♪
♪ He sailed into the gilded west ♪
♪ And lo, my heart will never rest ♪
♪ Until my love returns to me ♪
♪ Or I set out to find him there,,, ♪
♪ Come home, come home, I sing to thee ♪
♪ My love, come home and rest thy head ♪
[battle sounds continue over music]
♪ I’ll watch for you ♪
There\'s just too many of them, boy,
♪ The winter long ♪
♪ And sing for you a summer song ♪
Courage, Artham,
♪ And if you can’t return to me ♪
Well, if this is the end, let’s make it good,
[Nugget barks]
[angry mooing]
[wham] [wham]
[low growl]
[low growling]
[intense growling]
[howling]
[Nugget howling]
-[mooing] -[howling]
Is it over?
I don’t know,
Is grandpa,,,?
Not yet,
But,,,soon,
-[low rumbling] -Whoa,
Ah!
-Whoa, Whoa, -Whoooaa!
[rumbling continues]
[Leeli gasps] Nugget!
[Peet grunts]
[Nugget squealing]
No more snakey-Fangs!
You’re alive!
And you,
All safe!
Not all of us,
What is that?
Water, from the First Well,
But-- Where did you--
What’s the First Well?
It’s uh,,,
The lifeblood of Aerwiar,
The first well in the world,
Lost for ages,
How did you--
Will it save him?
Give him more!
No!
I used too much on Nugget,
We don’t need a giant Podo walking around,
[under his breath] I certainly don’t,
[Podo groans]
[Podo groaning]
What I wouldn’t give for a pot of flabbit stew,
[Leeli gasps] Grandpa!
[Podo groans] Careful now,
Your old Podo’s been through a long night,
[Nia gasps]
The sun is up and we’re all still here,
Aye, but my sailor’s nose smells a storm clabberin’ up,
We’ve gotta make Dugtown afore the Fangs regroup,
Papa, that’s two days on foot,
The children need food, and rest,
Well, we can’t stay here,
And there’s nowhere else to go between,
Uh,,,there’s one place,
[low mumbling]
I’ll be keelhauled afore I give that fool even a ounce o’--
[Leeli] Grandpa?
Hmm?
You’re making me sad,
Please come in,
This ain’t a roof I’ll shelter under, so don’t even ask,
Then at least come in and eat a bowl of flabbit Stew,
I got no appetite fer his cookin’,
You said you wanted flabbit stew,
And I helped make it for you!
Hmph,
Well, I spose I could just eat the parts you helped with,
I helped with all of it,
Then I reckon I\'ll have to eat part of all of it,
[Podo chuckles]
But after that, I\'m coming back out here,
Mama?
Do you really have them?
The Jewels of Anniera?
Where are they?
The question isn’t, where are the Jewels of Anniera,
but what are they?
The Jewels have been sought by Gnag the Nameless
since the Great War reached the shores of the Shining Isle,
Why does he want them so much?
He believes that they hold a hidden power,
But why do you have the Jewels?
We’re not even from Anniera,
Not all of us,
Your grandpa is from Glipwood,
but I was born in the Green Hollows,
When I married your father, we made our home in Anniera,
That’s where you were born,
When war came and your father died,
we fled to Glipwood to protect the Jewels,
Then where are they?
I told you, lad,
That’s the wrong question,
Fine,
What are the Jewels of Anniera?
You are,
Wha--
We are?
What do you mean?
Your father was the High King of the Shining Isle,
I was the Queen,
You three are all that is left of that great kingdom,
The Jewels of Anniera,
So that means,,,
I’m the High King?
No, lad,
That’s not how it works in Anniera,
In Anniera, the kingship passes over the eldest son,
For as long as there have been rulers there,
the second-born wears the crown,
So, I’m the High King?
Me?!
I’m King?!
You are,
But the eldest is the Throne Warden,
The protector of the king,
It’s a great honor,
I’m supposed to spend my whole life
keeping him out of trouble?!
[deepest voice] Bring me more royal stew!!!
There were many days when Esben wished
he were the Throne Warden and not the High King,
Well, I bet his older brother--
Wait,
Throne Warden,,,
Artham P, Wingfeather, Throne Warden of Anniera,
Does that mean,,,
[Leeli gasps]
Peet is our uncle?
Yes, Lady Leeli,
Peet fought bravely at your father’s side
so the Jewels would never fall into Fang hands,
Without Peet’s,,, sacrifice,
Gnag would have captured our whole family,
[Podo groans]
Your father prepared gifts for you in the weeks before he died,
Janner, this is yours,
A priceless treasure,
One of the First Books,
It is said to give wisdom to the wise,
For you, High King Kalmar, your father’s sketchbook,
His drawings of our home,
He wanted you to love your land and people as he did,
And for you, Leeli,,,
This belonged to your great-grandmother Madia,
Queen of Anniera,
It’s been in the kingdom longer than we know,
Melodies made on that harp
are said to have the power to protect Anniera,
But it didn’t stop the fangs,
We had no songmaiden to play it,
Song-maiden,,,?
Yes,
You’re the Song Maiden of the Shining Isle,
Aye,
And let the Fangs beware,
You remind me of him,
But he was king,
I’m just a Throne Warden,
[Nia scoffs] Just?
It’s a sacred call,
And you are a Wingfeather,
Here, one last gift from your father,
[Janner reading] Dearest Janner,
you’ve royal blood in your veins,
no matter what your name or place in this world,
The Maker made you throne warden to your little brother,
and I wouldn’t wish anyone but you to keep him safe,
There are rumors of war,
Should Anniera fall, should I fall,
remember your homeland,
Ancient secrets lie beneath these stones and cities,
We mustn’t let them fall to evil,
One day when you’re alone, unsure, doubting yourself,
you’ll need these words,
Remember this: You are Annieran,
Your father is a king,
You are his son,
This is your land, and nothing can change that,
Nothing,
Know when you read this
that your father loves you like no other,
Your papa,
[raining]
[eerie music]
[music pounding low]
[music pounding louder and faster]