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SIR BLANDAMOUR (listening interestedy) "Ay, your father is a hard man and a selfish. I cannot think what he will be like without that trumpery vase. But, the elf is right, Princess. Your father will die, by your hand or old age, and then your land will be headless. Will you turn your back on that? There is nothing that you can do right now to help your mother, but the wheels of time run but one way, and that will be unkind to your father. Now, with the elf..." (he nods at Illek) "or no, we must retrace our steps, for I have a dragon to beard in his den once more. Mayhap it will please you to arrive, alive and free, in the den where he held you. If I know him, and I think that I do, it will be a bitter blow to his pride. Dragons do not readily give up their treasures, be they vases or shieldmaidens."
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