"My name is Petros Kazakos." "Karamanos was shot by me." "I had been watching him for days waiting for the right moment." "Until he finally realised I was after him and tried to get away." "I followed him closely and when he turned and faced me I shot him." "I emptied my gun on him till I saw him shaking on the ground and stop moving." "THE OUTLAWS" "Now that all's peaceful in me" "I'm thinking that Fate definitely exists and we're all little paper figures in its hands." "But in those days I couldn't think of anything else besides Karamanos." "The idea of killing him was swirling in my head and tormenting me." "Up to the moment that I shot him and saw him fall in the middle of the road." "And at the very same moment" "I felt that I, too, had once and for all finished dealing with the whole world." "So then I thought I should go back and turn myself in." "I'd go to the nearest constabulary station and tell them all about it." "I, however, turned around and started towards the mountain again." "You saw him?" "I did." "He's coming up here." "Then perhaps the constables will show up too." "Just when they'd started forgetting about us." "Don't you worry, they won't forget about us." "They're somewhere near sharpening their teeth." "He shot him three in a row and he didn't even make a sound." "You'll go that way." "Get yourself behind his back." "That mustachio man won't do us no good!" "Scram!" "Halt!" "Stand still!" "Was it you who fired a gun?" "Yes." "Who was the other one?" "Out with it, pig!" "Damn you, speak!" "The constables will be here again!" "Scum!" "We'll skip out on them again!" "With our hair turning white, just for your sake!" "You've been in a camp?" "Have you been in a camp?" "I have." "You're Thomas' son!" "Same face!" "Same cut!" "See how he's grown!" "We'd written you off at the time." "Your poor mother died devastated about you." "Her little Petros, right?" "Yes..." "Petros..." "After your father was killed in that sabotage at the bridge and we realised he had been betrayed, we scattered on the mountains." "We later heard that many people had been caught and had been sent to camps." " When did you come back?" " Few hours ago." "Been to your house?" "I have." "The house is burned down." "Not a wall was saved." "I found a few neighbours and heard all about it." "They told me that the traitors were Karamanos and his cousin." "Yes." "We bumped into the cousin later on and he paid with his skin." "But Karamanos escaped." "Then we went downhill." "From bad to worse." "The war ended..." "People went back to their homes... and I was left up here to be chased by constables... while friends do not even want to hear my name..." "You're Kosmas..." "I heard about you too." "You first said you'd gone up on the mountain for revenge." "Then you took to stealing and bullying." "You also killed a constable." "You've been declared an outlaw." " Isn't all that true?" " It is." "I had no home to go back to." "I settled for looting and plundering." "The wolf cut loose." "If your late father could see me now..." "He used to say "bread tastes better with honey than with vinegar"." "You didn't take after him in that aspect." "Who was the man you shot?" "Karamanos." "Karamanos?" "Impossible!" "We looked for him for years but he'd been swallowed by the earth." "He had left." "He came back." "He thought they'd forgotten him and came back." " Great!" "He must be content now that he's back and won't leave his hometown again." "Sounds unbelievable." "You?" "Shooting Karamanos?" "You see now?" "Oh yes, you do see!" "His father's spitting image." "Check the road." "We're starting North at dawn." "That's how I first met Kosmas." "I followed him and I almost cared about nothing any more." "I felt safe walking on his grave, steady footsteps and I was trying to remember all I'd heard about him." "All sorts of talk from here and there about his life, his toughness, his unbending obstinacy that made him cut himself off from other people, about his contempt towards all that is authority and the law." "I silently followed him and I already knew that I had blindly entrusted my luck to his hands." "He looked cumbersome but he was attentive and distrustful." "Nothing escaped him, he left nothing to luck." "He smelled the air like a hound and his ear made out certain noises that only he could hear." "I was scared of as well as amazed by him, as if I was a child again and he, the hero of some old legend." "We've been hiding here for months." "They've almost forgotten about us." "But tomorrow at dawn they'll be all over the cliffs coming up." "Dozens of them." " Can't we leave at once?" " No need to hurry." "We'll start at dawn too and take the Westward path through the mountains." "Where they get here, the nest will be empty." " You told Argyris we'd move towards the North." " I lied, I don't trust him." "The 5.000 reward on my head is very tempting." "Whoever turns me in also gets amnesty, you see now?" "I see." "Killing Karamanos was no good for you." "Now you're dead, too." "I know but I'm not sorry." "When I returned and heard he's alive I got furious." "None of my family members survived those times." "Everyone knows that Karamanos was the traitor." "But those who survived chose to turn a blind eye and avoid any extra trouble." "Humans can easily forget." "But I forgot nothing!" "3 years in the camp taught me that a life has no value if you don't choose how to live it yourself!" "I am now done for." "If I manage to escape them, that's fine." "If not..." "Great!" "You ruined your life only to squash a worm." "Big deal!" "Millions of them will survive and defile the earth, stupid!" "You think you've done something, eh?" "I did what I could." "To set the world right, better pour petroleum on it and burn it down!" "And jump in yourself!" "That's the only way to cleanse it." "I've had too much!" "I've messed up and now I can't square things, not even with God as my uncle." "I've killed, robbed..." "Now I only care about staying hidden." "Know or be known by no one." "Until they drag me out of my hole." "And then I hope they'll finish me off in no time." "Not knock me about too much." "You've lost heart." "That's right." "You're young but your mind's sharp." "If we're saved..." "If you're saved I mean, you may become a great person." "There's no back nor forth for me." "Once I realised that, I came to my rest." "What are our chances of getting away?" "None, if we stay in these areas." "Sooner or later they'll find us." "And if we leave?" "If we make it to the sea, we can hire a vessel and cross to the other side." "They make no questions over there." "You can start life anew as if freshly born." "Will we find a vessel?" "There are many doing this job but they want to be well paid." "It's heads or tails for their lives, too." "Got any money?" "It is Argyris." "Hear that?" "Car engines." "The wind carries the roar up here." "So?" "It's the constabulary lorries." "They came sooner than I expected." "They could be buses or trucks." "I know that roar well by now." "Shortly the hunting will start." "They're methodical." "First they'll get hold of all passes and wait for daybreak." "They'll move forward step by step even going through hare nests." "They found the killed man." "Looks like they were going the other way." "They heard the shots and stopped." " How many are they?" "I couldn't count them." "I almost bumped onto them while passing by the water." "They're all over the mountain!" "Not even a rabbit can pass through!" "Too late for us to leave now." "Like novices, we've been had." "It'll soon be dark!" "Let's hold on and escape through the gorge." "You're an idiot!" "They'll be watching it closely." "And with that moon not even a fox can hide." " Let's start right away!" "We may still find an open pass." " Why wait?" "They'll be here soon!" " In a hurry, are you?" " This cursed man's to blame!" "Couldn't you leave us in peace?" "We were fine here up to now." "He brought them here, let him deal with it!" " All right..." " Don't they know we're here too?" "Let him turn himself in and they'll go away." " Pig!" "You'd sell your own mother..." " Don't talk to me like that!" "All three of us will perish." "We haven't harmed him, have we?" "He's right!" "You don't have to pay for my crime." "But don't even think I might turn myself in." "I never thought of it." "I'll try to get away alone." "Then you can do as you like." " I have no intention..." " Shut up!" "I'll do the talking from now on!" "We're not moving from here, not for 5 metres." " Then what?" " I'll tell you what!" "Turn around and start downhill." "Turn yourself in or kill yourself, we don't care." "If you're lucky you may make it." "Move it!" "Move it!" "Stay here!" "Don't listen to him." "He fires up easy but soon gets over it." "Let him go while there's still time." "Before you both regret it!" "So?" "I was wrong to take you in!" "You'll never have any brains." "Come inside, both of you!" "Can you climb up there?" "We have no choice any more." "We'll climb up at dawn and they'll be searching under our feet." " We won't manage to stand up there!" " We'll manage." "We'll enjoy it up here!" " I got you two in trouble..." " Never mind." "We're used to it." "I don't regret killing him." "But I could have done it in a smarter way." "We wouldn't be cornered like this." "It was bad luck the constables were passing by." "Or we would've avoided them." "Why blame them?" "This man was asking for trouble!" "Indeed you were asking for it!" "I found them all lolling down there as if nothing was the matter." "Karamanos was strolling about free!" "And they all greeted him friendly!" "All smiley and sweet-talking and welcoming..." "Can't you tell?" "Two hours of chatting at the coffee shop and we're just fine..." "A man only needs that much to be content." "Oh, yes." "Life's good as it is." "Only caring about food and drink and snatching all you can, right?" "You're young, that's why you talk this way." "Why not ask around, see what simple folk want for themselves." "Some day you'll understand that one little orchard with running water, with melons and watermelons, which you will watch as they're nourished and growing, a few toddlers or some woman, too, here's all we need in life." "No more than that." "Speaking of water, I'm thirsty already." "We'll have a swell time up here!" "They're coming up..." " I hear nothing." " You're not used to it, yet." "I get their smell coming with the air." "Do we have water?" "We can do without water." "It is without brains that we can't live." "We haven't got any?" "They're approaching!" "One of them fired a gun by mistake." "Now they'll be seeing one of us behind every bush." "They may not get as far as here." "Possible, but I don't believe they won't." "They must be already coming up." "The sun..." "That's all we needed now." "Did your village have any orchards with melons and watermelons?" "It did." "Then why couldn't you just stay there?" "And why do you care?" "He had an itch in his ass." "He had a fight with his brother for half an acre of land and he killed him." "The idiot, he didn't know that when you're in a dungeon for life not all the acres of the world are of any use to you." " I didn't mean to kill him." "He attacked me first." " Go tell them that." "Instead of 40 years in jail you'll get 39." "I can't take any more of this." "I'm going to jump." "Stop acting like a child, you're a man." "You have a murder on your back." "I'll jump and turn myself in." "Come what may." "I can't take this for another minute..." "Close your eyes and try to space out." "My eyes are itchy." "And I need to stretch my legs." "Let me jump." "And I won't tell there are more people..." "Great!" "And you think they're too stupid to figure it out?" "I'm telling you I can't stand it." "I'll call them to come and take me down and come what may." "One syllable and I'll cut your throat." "Choose whatever suits you best." "My legs!" "I can hardly feel them!" "Don't think about it." "Think of something else." " Impossible..." "He never could think." "If he could he wouldn't be where he is now." "And... how are we doing?" "Are we any better off?" "It's not only the ability of thinking." "It's also the way you do it." "I've always been hardheaded." "Thinking of whatever I'd fancy." "Too big a mistake." "Remember Bouras?" "The one who owned gristmills and made big money?" "Why did you remember him now?" "He died." "Like all people do." "Money didn't help him." "But he also had a son." "A lowlife." "A useless dirtbag who when his father died dived into the old man's coffer and squandered it away." "I just thought that when we've finished here we could pay him a visit." "There might still be something left in a drawer and he won't deny old friends." " Then we'll steal?" " We'll borrow." "Only as much as we need for a boat." " What if he refuses?" " We'll beg him." "He may not fall for begging." "No way." "We'll corner him somehow." "I don't like such stuff." "You're an idiot." "For a vessel, we need money." "Or none of us will be saved." "Sooner or later they'll cut us off in some canyon and slaughter us like hogs." "You're free to choose." "We're not ripping off a saint, anyway." "Bouras is a scumbag." "Once I messaged him I was in need he answered me that people of my sort he couldn't care less about." " How goes it?" " Just fine." "We'll soon be over with this." "Just in time... before going the way of all flesh up here." "Are we going to Bouras?" "We are." "Don't move, Bouras, for your own good!" "I didn't know you'd got married." "It's really good to have a woman around the house." "And as I see, you were also lucky." "Don't be afraid." "Family is a great thing!" "I've told you before to leave me alone." "You're really asking for it." "Don't flare up, we came to ask for something as friends, mind you." "We need money." "You'll lend us all you can and in time we'll pay you back." "You knocked on the wrong door." "I don't have a dime." "Your efforts were in vain." "We don't ask for much." "Give us what you can and you won't see us again." "Or even hear about us again." "I don't have a dime." "Try elsewhere!" "You won't get far, anyway." "I reckon you didn't understand." "You give us the money and we'll go." "Or we'll take it ourselves and the mistake is all yours." "I said I don't have a dime." "Go or you'll lose your head." "Even patience has limits, Bouras!" "Give us the money and we'll leave." "Or we'll smash this place to smithereens." "You stay put!" "Get a rope!" "Get a rope!" "You get dressed!" "Don't be shy." "It's only us who'll see them." "No rope." "Don't get us into trouble, Bouras!" "Tell us where the money is!" "Light a fire!" "Quick!" "Give it, Bouras!" "Don't play with me 'cause you'll be sorry." "They got me cornered here and I have to leave." "If I stay I'm done for." "Without your money I can't go anywhere." "So I'm taking it even if I have to skin you bit by bit." "If you make me do this, the crime's on you!" "Fill this with oil." "Bring it." "Tell us where the money's hidden." "Why suffer for a few lousy dimes?" "Don't act crazy, Kosmas!" "The constables will pass by shortly." "They come every day and fill their car with water." " Where is it?" " Leave while you still can." "I swear I won't tell on you." "None of you will be spared!" "The constables are on their way!" "Don't move or I'll burn your face." "Where do you hide it?" "You won't get away!" "You still have some time to go." "Don't play with me, Bouras!" "Where is the money hidden?" "None of you will be spared!" "None of you!" "None of you will be saved!" "Hold it, Kosmas!" "He's telling the truth." " They're coming." " Who's they?" " He tried to escape through the window." " What happened?" " What are you asking?" " He's dead!" " What happens now?" "We'll hide him and try to run away." "We're lost if they find this one, too." "God himself won't save us from their hands." "They won't rest before getting us!" "Quiet!" "They're here!" "In here?" "In here." "Fancy them paying us a visit!" "We've dug enough." "Get him over here." "Give a hand." "Wait!" "Someone's coming this way!" "That was close." "They'd only put us in the same pit with Bouras." "Look through the other window." "Move it!" "They got in the car." " Don't touch her!" " What's your problem?" "You'll hurt this woman!" " She's not harmed you." " If she escapes, we're doomed." "She hasn't harmed you." "If I let her, she will." "It's either her life or ours." "We've become beasts." "Even worse than beasts." "What am I to do?" "We're hanging in the balance!" "Our lives are at stake!" "We can take her with us." "You're nuts!" "Dragging a woman with us on the moutnain!" "Let's take her with us!" "Till we get somewhere." "The woman followed us quietly as if all at once she didn't mind what had happened." "We walked non-stop, meticulously avoiding the areas where we might meet any people." "She followed silent without showing any fear or an intention to run away." "Argyris often gave her angry looks and I couldn't figure out what was going on in his stiff stubborn mind." "Kosmas walked before us silent, absorbed in his own thoughts." "I very well knew he had already regretted." "If Bouras had not tried to escape, we would have left that place peacefully." "But none of us could foresee what actually happened." "I didn't care about Bouras at all but his killing had roughen us all." "I was afraid that after this there was no stopping us." "I didn't know what the others were thinking and was worried about the woman." "I finally decided to talk to her." "He never meant to harm him." "It was an unguarded moment." "His regret is only a lie." "He killed on purpose, it gives him joy doing so." "Why haven't you killed?" "I've killed, too." "You're all alike, with your knives and rifles, you think the world's made for you!" "I didn't kill out of gusto!" "I had to do it and I did." "Those who hang Jesus could also find an excuse if they wanted." "We don't always do as we want." "There are things that determine our lives without asking us." "I know that myself." "Won't we walk by the water?" "You gone crazy?" "Why go this way?" "We still have a day's walk to do." "The constables will be all over the springs." "They're waiting for you, so go!" "See anything?" "When they discover Bouras' body they'll be furious." "They may leave later on and free some of the passages." "We're fine here." "They'll get tired at some point and go." "Whichever holds longer." "What if they don't go?" "I don't want to leave him alone with the woman." "He may let her go." "Don't you see she's got him tied to her skirt already?" "She can do as she likes with him." "And why do you care?" "You don't fancy thin gals." "You want them fat." " Isn't that so?" " Yes..." "Fat, white ones..." "And with a ponytail hanging low down!" "So this one's no good for you." "No, she's not." " He seems to be no good for you, either." " That yellow guy?" "Just a pack of bones, know-it-all and too nosy!" "One day I'll straighten him up good!" "Why didn't you do her in, too?" "If she runs, we're dead." "Also she's trouble to drag along with us." "We're done for, anyway." "I thought perhaps you fancied her." "But you fancy the fat ones..." "He said you'll go down to the river for water." " And the constables?" " They're gone, he says." "He sure knows." "Don't listen to him." "He's lying." "You're scared?" "Don't you see he's saying this on purpose?" "The springs are packed with constables." "You're sending him for water?" "Tell him not to go." "You said it yourself, whoever goes is a dead man." "Let them brawl." "When we've killed one another you can go back home." "I don't want to go back." "There's no one at home." "Wasn't the late man your husband?" "No." "And what the hell were you in his bed for?" "You're a fine one, too!" "Worse than us." " Argyris!" " Yes!" "You see this woman?" "You think she's any better than you?" "No." "We're all the same scum!" "Good or bad, depending on the occasion." "It's just that some are cleverer." "Doing their dirty work in secret and covering it up like cats." "Have you stolen?" "Killed?" "If you're slick enough..." "They take their hats off to you." "If you're a poor devil, there's no place in the sun for you." "Got that, scallywag?" "Well, how could you?" "Poor devil!" "Here's the gent who'll set the world right." "Pour petroleum on it and burn it down, still the filth remains." "We've been through that." "Each one sees as far as they can." " I don't see far enough, then?" " Only as far as it suits you." "Suits me!" "Haaaa!" "What suits me?" "You're the blind one and you can't see beyond your nose." "So it suits me!" "I'm lolling about up here with all the goodies of the world and I won't let go!" "Suits him, too, right?" "You haven't got the slightest idea!" "I'm telling you, the old wolf who's seen much!" "When you made your life choice you chose this one." "You thought of bullying and bravery as the easy way." "He's right about this." "No one denies it." "I was fooled." "But those even worse ones sleeping in their beds, nobody thinks of chasing them!" "That's what makes me restless." "There is no justice!" "Say if I'm at fault, let me pay then!" "But others at fault must also pay." "Not just me!" " So you were right to kill Karamanos?" " He was a traitor." "And who authorized you to judge and punish?" "No one." "Oh, great!" "So you killed the man because playing judge suited you." "You didn't dig God's way, either!" "See her?" "She doesn't dig straight ways either." "Bouras' bed suited her better!" "We're all great scum!" "But don't worry." "There are even worse ones." "We're angels compared to them." "Yeah, little angels with rosy cheeks!" "Console yourself!" "And you, have no concern." "Bouras died, find yourself another man." "The boys are available." "If I were their age I'd ask you to marry me." "Youngsters are all words and sentiments." "Choose one of them, all the same." "They're both good and bad." "Don't be scared." "It's nothing." "When you hear too much noise you may sleep in peace." "When they come for you, you won't hear a sound." "They're using dynamite for the bridge." "Reconstruction..." "You want to get yourself away from here?" "All of us, not just me." "Where things have come to, we'll all either live or die." "This girl, too." " If I want to go, I will." " Great!" "That's how I like women to be." "Proud!" "You're not going anywhere, though." "Only when we get to the boat, we'll let you go wherever you want." "You have an objection?" "Have it your way, don't ask us." "As long as we slip away from here." "Now you're talking clever." "We don't have many ways of rescue." "Patrols are all around the mountain." "So we'll go through the village." "We'll get to the main road and meet the bridge builders." "Tomorrow's Sunday." "Workers go to the town." "Only few guards will be left." "We'll go down at dawn and may God help us." "We're lost anyway." " If any eye sees us, we're doomed." " That's why I said "may God help us"." "About time He lends a hand, too." " And when we reach the bridge?" "We'll snatch their cash box." "Then if we follow the river we'll get down to the sea." "Who's to find us after that?" "In a few hours we'll be on the other side and firing gunshots in the air!" "You like it?" "It'll be fine!" "Just fine!" "There, we'll live like humans, too." "Become family men." "Forget all the stealing and looting." "You like this?" "I've hoed the fields since I was 8." "I've unlearned how to work." "But I'll learn again!" "I still have some guts!" "What about her?" "We're taking her with us until we slip out." " She'll only be perished with us." " Why do you care?" "When you're lying stretched out in the street tomorrow with some ten holes in your body... you won't think of others..." " She hasn't done anything, she's just like us!" "She has nowhere to go." "She's at a deadlock, too." "I can see you like her, too." "Take her." "She's yours till tomorrow morning." "From that moment on, if we make it...." "we'll talk again." " You think she fancies you, eh?" " Get out of my way!" "With me she's playing hard to get, eh?" "Ask her." " Was Bouras any better?" " Looks like she doesn't like you." "She likes the one who gets her first." "She wouldn't even say no to a..." "Easy now!" "He's right." "That's no way to talk about a lady." "He's a pig." "He doesn't know what he's saying." "Of course he does." "He's male and he just wants to do his thing." "Don't you want to go back?" "To your folks?" "Back where?" "I've got nowhere to go." "When we get to the sea, he'll let you go." "I don't care." "At times I wish I'd never been born." "I've never lived a happy moment up to today." "Only agonies, insults and sorrows." "Is such a life worth living?" "Wish a thousand times we never had it." "I've been through a lot, too, but I haven't lost courage." "All I could see before me was my coming back day and I was patient." "And when I came back I found everything was in ruins." "And those responsible for all this will be breathing down our neck in the days to come." "That's why I killed Karamanos." "If I could I'd reach out for even more of them." "I don't care what others do." "I wish they'd leave me alone and never even look at me." "Not one of them!" "I never harmed anyone." "So they might as well let me be." "We're all alike now." "Nobody wants us." "We have no home." "All we can do is move forward and see where we can get." "I want to talk to him." "Bouras had money." "They were hanging round his neck in a pouch." "Was it a lot?" "Lots of." "He had it changed into pounds and carried it with him." "He dreaded he'd be robbed of it." "He doesn't need it now." "He can't spend it." "Shut up, idiot!" "What happens now?" "We're going back at Bouras'." "I'm not going." " Are you?" " Yes but I won't touch the dead man." "In this heat, he's probably started to smell, too." "I'm not going!" "One of his eyes was left open!" "With his money we can be certain about the boat." "We're almost saved." "I'm not going!" "Dealing with the dead... you never know what's coming to you." " Are you scared?" " Yes, I am." "If he was alive I wouldn't mind killing him again." "But now, I wouldn't touch him." "I'm not going, either." "We killed that man for nothing." " There's no saving us now." " You killed him!" "I never even touched him!" "Amounts to the same thing." "God overlooks details." "His big hand will come upon the just and the unjust... and cleanse His earth from our filth." "I didn't do a thing." "I didn't mean to kill my brother, either." "He started it!" "I didn't do a thing!" " We're going down tomorrow?" " Yes, at dawn." "None of us will be saved." "You don't seem to be sorry for that." "Our time has come." "What's to be sorry for?" "You still had some life to live, if you wanted to." "We're now paying for all we've done." "In wisdom hath He made them all..." "Don't mourn don't mourn over the eagle that flies when it rains there's also the little the little bird that has no wings at all..." "Hurry!" "To the river!" "It all seemed quite simple now and without realising it, we found ourselves far from populated areas." "Of course, no thought was made about going back." "At first, Kosmas thought of a few ways of finding money but suddenly he abandoned all that and marched on ahead non-stop as if to put an end to this story as fast as possible." "We followed him like sheep follow the ram in their flock." "We're there!" "When we finally reached the sea none of us cared about anything anymore." "A spring of fresh water was there and Kosmas believed that some fishing boat would come near to fill its barrels up and we'd snatch it." "I told him to avoid further trouble, we had enough of it already, he replied that I should mind my business with women's skirts and let him do his." " Let him be, he knows what he must do." " He doesn't know how to control himself." "If he could he'd burn up the whole world." " Didn't you ask him to take me along?" " I didn't have to ask." "He knew already." "I don't like the idea of leaving here." "But now we have no choice." "I should have thought twice before shooting that man." "Perhaps you really had to, but what's your gain now?" "Well... not a thing." "At times I feel I have to do something, too." "Fight, work, help in any way I can." "Then, I'm also bored of my life itself." "I feel as if I'm 100 years old." "Who's there?" "Hold it!" "No more!" "No more of that!" "Are you mad?" "The one who ran will bring the constables here." "No more killing!" "By now you know it won't get us anywhere." "Halt!" "Halt!" "Stop at once!" "Stand still!" "Don't move!" "Stand still!" "Don't move!" "Now you're on your own!" "None of us will survive." "What did this one do to you?" "You were scared he might have recognized you?" "What did he do..." "The world's a jungle, you better understand." "If you don't get them first, they'll get you." "Come here." " The other man ran." " Yeah, I saw." "Where are you off to?" "Where to?" "I figured you out, rogues!" "You recognized me, did you?" "Yes, it is me, Kosmas!" "That outlaw who's worth 5.000!" "You can't earn that much, not with a two years' work!" "Thought you could get me and make a fortune, eh?" "Five thousand for this head!" "That's too expensive!" "Too much for a cut-off head!" "They'll exhibit it in the village squares so that others wise up." "Ravens!" "I'm going back on the mountain." "The man who ran will notify them and they'll be all over the place in an hour." "Alone I'll manage to lose them." "You'll turn yourself in." "There's no other way." "Said it yourself, you can't fight the whole world." "Let's wait a bit more, a boat may come along." "Poor chance..." "It would have come already." "Go to the nearest station." "Karamanos was a traitor, even children know that." "No one's going to blame you." "If you hadn't killed him, someone else would." "Go back and make a new life for yourself." "I'm going nowhere!" "We set out on this together and we'll be saved together if we can." "Run and save your head." "If they find you with me, you're dead." " Look behind you!" "Hide yourself!" "And the guns!" "Now you all stay put!" "And don't try to run away, any of you, you're dead!" "Sit on the ground, all of you!" " Doesn't look like it's approaching." " It will." "They'll come out for water." "It's our last hope." "If it goes, we're done for." "Play something!" "Play, he said!" "If they listen, they'll come out and we'll attack them." "Louder!" "Keep it up!" "Louder!" "Shut up, everyone!" "We're not in luck." "Go, both of you!" "Walk along the shore and you'll get to the nearest constabulary station." "Do the rest yourselves." "You're young." "Get yourselves a new life." "Don't waste it for nothing." "What about you?" "I'm fed up." "I'm staying here to settle my debts with them." "You gone mad?" "Either we leave together or no one does." "I'm tired of all this talking." "On your way!" "Waste no time!" "Lower the rifle." "On your way, I said." "Don't play with me." "You've never achieved anything with rifles." "Lower it and let's talk senslibly." "I won't talk with anyone!" "I'll do as I like." "Nobody stops me." "Leave while there's still time." " What about him?" " He stays with me, he's doomed too." "Now go!" "They're coming from there!" "I saw them climbing the hill!" "Go!" "Okay..." "Come near." "Soon we'll be over it." "What'll happen?" "What do you think 'll happen?" "We've reached the end." "Soon you'll have no worries." "Neither about the constables... nor the croft your brother tried to rob you of." "Not even about women with fat ponytails." " Why can't we leave, too?" "Leave how?" "And go where?" "We can go back, look for a new opportunity!" "Too late." "What was to be done, is done." "Come on!" "Here we are!" "It's me!" "Kosmas!" "Scared, are you?" "You are scared, poor devil." "And rightly so." "Just don't let them know and revel in it." "Be strong now." "Till we meet again." "We're right here!" "What are you waiting for?" "We're right here!" "Hey, Kosmas!" "The others will also perish beacuse of you!" "Put your gun down and get up!" "We won't harm you!" "And you, the others!" "You hear?" "He's taking you down with him!" "He's hopeless, whatever he does!" "Who told you I wanted hope?" "Whoever's a wise teacher, there, let him stand up!" "Get up now!" "We won't harm you!" "As you can see you cannot get away now!" "Surrender, Kosmas!" "You'll all end up in our hands, anyway!" "One by one!" "What are you doing, idiot?" "Come back!" "Don't listen to them!" "Come back!" "I won't surrender!" "Come in here and get me out!" "I'm in here!" "What are you waiting for?" "He stayed back there so that we'd have time to get away." "He could have fled if he wanted to but I think he already knew that his circle was already closed." "Perhaps he wanted me to know that, the way things turned out, I had no choice left." "He chose his end himself and I am now turning myself in to you." "I've told you everything and the more I speak the more I realise that I don't regret a thing, out of all that happened." "English subs by never4ever for KG (April 2015)"