" You came back to us!" " They're here!" " Give her up, son!" " How could you, Father?" "Let me go!" "Let me go!" "That was a rescue attempt?" "Are you leaving?" "I want to be the daughter my father would be proud of." "I'm staying in Basra." "You really have no idea who you are, do you?" "What you're capable of!" "Don't go." "Don't go." "You were talking again, in your sleep." "If you're going to talk, get back to your cabin." "I've just been a bit consumed with thoughts lately." "Yes, well, go consume elsewhere." "Today's a special day, you see" "Oh." "Mama." "Sinbad." "This is early for you." "I just had the worst dream." "You've been dreaming of those scorpions with Rina's head again, haven't you?" " It was something like that." " Anwar, come on." "You saved her life." "Maybe the way she told that story wasn't completely..." "I don't know." "Don't mind me." "I don't have bad dreams." "You don't have bad dreams?" "I've been doing some thinking about Basra." "We've left so much behind..." "Do you see what I see?" "An island." " Hardly a novelty." " A wreck." "Maybe more than one." "Anwar, do you see?" "Treasure." "This could be what we've been looking for." "Remind me again why a shipwreck is what we've been looking for." "Because wrecks have secrets on board." "Secrets are a good thing?" "I think it will do us all some good to have a bit of excitement." "Is it just me, or does anyone find this a little bit morbid?" "It's not a fresh shipwreck, then." "No sign of our fortune yet." "See?" "Far easier to scavenge off a fresh ship." "You really are incredibly compassionate, did you know that?" "Oi." "Compassion is overrated." "Hello?" "Anwar!" "They must have been protecting it." "They gave their lives guarding it." "It's beautiful." "Yes." "It is quite something." "Yes." "And I found it." "What would you store in a box like this?" "A box with no clear means of opening." "Whatever's inside here, it could change our lives." "Or certainly make us a great deal richer." "Notice the top." "Some kind of pattern." " Right, stand back." " No" "Look, if we could just" "I think there's probably a way to" "Listen to me!" "Right, yes." "It's some kind of puzzle." "It's not even dented." "It's magical." "It's annoying!" "We're going to need a bigger boat." "Why is it sinking?" "We're not leaving it." "I'm going to go back to the ship." "I'll tell Cook to sail it around the Cape until he hits deeper water, and we can carry it until we meet him." "That's going to be a long walk." "Well, we're not leaving this box behind." "Ready?" "One, two, three..." "I never liked puzzles." "An opportunity for clever to feel clever and the stupid to feel stupid." "I think if I order them in a certain sequence..." "Just follow the coast." "You want me to sail this boat around the coast alone?" "There'll be a cove where the water's deep enough." "Or at least you hope there is." "When you find that cove, wait for us there." "Sinbad..." "Are you sure you want to be doing this?" "You should see this box." " Whatever's inside it, I know" " Listen." "You're ignoring what's happened to you, what happened in Basra." "Taryn told me I had no idea what I was or what I was capable of." "Well, this is what I am." "I'm a simple thief." "And this is all I'm capable of." "I'm not ignoring anything." "Today, of all days, I will solve this." "Diagonal alignment?" "Still feeling confident?" "Mostly." "Also pondering the question, what am I doing with my life?" " Do you know what today is?" " Yep." "Today's the day that we open this box." " Whoa, wh" " It's opening." " Stand back, stand back." " What did you do?" "Oh." "Hello." "Maybe we still have time to get back to the boat." "No, Cook's sailed." "We have to walk over all that harsh terrain for nothing?" "Not for nothing." "Not for nothing at all." "For someone." "Who hit him on the head with a boulder rock?" "You all right?" "Do you... understand me?" "Water?" "Rina, get your flask." "Whoa." "That girl is thirsty." "Food, do we have any food?" "You need to" " Oh." "Um..." "My name is Anwar." "My name is Kuji." "I'm, uh, we're... sailors." "Good!" "I like sailors." "I'm a god." "Um... you're... a god?" "Mm... yes." "You don't look like a god." "How would you expect a god to look?" "White hair, big beard?" "Gods can take any shape and beards can be horribly scratchy." "I decided I'd prefer to be pretty." "Come on." "Let's make some distance before the night draws in." "Um..." "Mmm..." "You can have three questions." "I will answer them with pure truth." "Three questions about anything." "Can you prove it, that you're a god?" "Waste of a question." "No." " Let's not waste" " Then why should we believe you?" "Another waste of a question." "There's no reason why you should believe me." "Then why don't we just leave you here?" "He didn't mean that, that's not a question." "But he asked, so I need to answer." "Again, waste." "Rationally, you entirely should leave me." "Why have you chosen us?" "You're a god, you could have chosen anyone, why us?" "Now, that is a brilliant question." "But, sadly, you've had your three, and so I can't answer." "This food is good." " What is it?" " Ours." "You're not sleeping." "That's a statement, not a question." "A full moon." "A sky like this." "When you've been inside a box for 35 years, you breathe a sky like this." "Here." "Thanks." "You were in that box for 35 years?" " Why?" " Another excellent question, but a question all the same." "We used up our three." "Now can I ask a question?" "You're sad." "Why?" "You can tell I'm sad?" "It was my birthday today." "The others are so instinctive and brilliantly rush into any problem." "Me, I just think." "I'm always thinking." "Rina has told everyone that I saved her in Basra." "The truth is, I hesitated, and in that moment, she was taken." "So that means you're not brave?" "I..." "It's taken my birthday to realise that." "I'm useless, and I..." "I need to go home." "Anwar." "Anwar!" " Did you see anything?" " What?" "We had an intruder." "I thought this island was uninhabited." " How do we know we've had an intruder?" " They've stolen all our weapons." "Where is our god this morning?" " Can't she tell us who this was?" " She's washing." "She doesn't just self-clean, then?" "They stole all our weapons?" "No." "They haven't." "Arranged them rather neatly, haven't they?" "They stole them just to put them elsewhere?" "Maybe they weren't trying to steal them." "Maybe they were just trying to unnerve us." "Morning." "I'd be on a throne, gold everywhere, and everyone would be looking at me, smiling gratefully." "Well, there'd definitely be food involved, and women." "And fire." "Oh, no, wait, I need more time to think." "But food, fire, and women." "You're nothing if not predictable, Gunnar." " What about you, Sinbad?" " Crab fishing with Jamil." "We used to tie fish heads to the end of ropes and crab fish off the shoreline in Basra." "Then we'd kill them and take them home to my grandmother, who'd make us stew." "Then me, Jamil, and my mother would eat them with flatbread and sit in the low sun of the evening." "Sounds nice, Sinbad." "And you, Kuji?" "I've answered my three questions." "What?" "So we can ask you anything, and you can't answer?" "Anwar, where would you be?" "If you could be anywhere, what's your ideal?" "I'd be home, with my books, doing what needed to be done." " But you left home, Anwar." " So did you." "You wanted to go back." "Yes, but I didn't choose to leave, did I?" " I know." " Does anyone else hear drumming?" " It's not just me, then." " Smoke." "On the horizon." "Right." "Enough gameplay." "We find out what they want." "They were attacked." "There are no horses." "They weren't robbed." "Well, I think we've investigated the smoke, Sinbad." "This island..." "It makes no sense." " Who is your leader?" " There are no leaders here." "Which is why you have such a small and pitiful army." "We have nothing to offer you." "We want her." "You can't have her." "You want the god?" "Why do you want our god?" "She escaped us." "She is Kuji." "She stole, but she is our blood." "We want her back." "You have until sunrise tomorrow, or you will die!" "Well, let's put it to a vote." "All those in favour of leaving Kuji here." " Rina." " We don't need a vote." "We need an answer." "Kuji, can you tell us anything about these men?" "Look, they could have killed us in our sleep when they crept into our camp." "They could have killed us when he came to us yesterday." "They could have taken her at any time." "But they didn't." "So, let's confront them." "There are cleverer things to do than what your enemy wants, Anwar." "Let her go." "Set her free." " Let her run away." " She'll die." " Well, I'd rather her than me!" " Arguing is not going to solve this." "I have a suggestion." "One we used to use when we were outnumbered on my last boat." "We called it "the Bear Trap."" "To slay Fafnir the dragon, Regin advised Sigurd to dig a pit... to cover it... and wait for Fafnir the dragon to walk over it on his way to the water." "And then to hit him with everything he had." "He did." "And he drank the dragon's blood, and he understood the language of birds." "Is this another one of your sensible stories, then?" "To trap a bear, first you have to get it to where you want it to be." "So we lay bait." "We tie her up and we wait for them to come and get her, and then we attack with surprise and brutality." "And it requires her to be bait?" "Sinbad, no." "She's not going to be bait." "It's our best option, Anwar." "Is it?" "I still think we should tie her up and leave her." "Ssh." "I thought we were setting a bear trap." "I'm afraid of what the bear will do to you before we trap it." "No, we're getting you out of here." "This is a mistake." "I know." "Do you even know where we're going?" "Yes, along the coast until we reach Cook." "Away from them, away from everything." "That's a thorough plan." "Yes." "I hear the drums too." "Sinbad..." "Sinbad!" "She's gone." "They've gone." "But why would he leave with her?" "Is he wrong to go?" "Love." " The things we do for love." " Lust." "He barely knows the girl." " He knew her enough." " So what do we do now?" "We'd be walking to our certain death." "But it's Anwar!" "He dies with or without us." "Last night, you wanted to tie her up and leave her." "Her!" "Her, not him!" "We had a plan." "He ruined it." "I know battle, I know war." "He's lost." "So what, we do nothing?" "We just let him die?" "I am not going to lose anyone else." "I can't." "I've tried not caring, Gunnar, really, but I do care." "We are going after Anwar." "I don't have it in me to do otherwise." "No." "Neither do I." "You know..." "Whether you're a god or not, it makes no difference to me, right?" " I don't want you to think" " You still don't believe I'm a god?" "No, I just..." "I'm a doctor." "I'm a scientist." "We like proof." "That must be a sad way to live your life." "The drums are getting closer, and you don't have faith in me, let alone yourself, do you?" "I have faith in the things that matter." "And what matters, Anwar?" "The people you're with, the people you love?" "The life you lead." "That matters." "What life have you led?" "What life are you leading?" "I was leading one of failure." "That's all I know." "So I'm doing something about it." "No, you're not." " We're surrounded." " What?" "I hope I was worth it." "I thought Cook would be..." " I thought maybe he..." " You knew you were writing a death note." "Well, I definitely suspected, yes." "It was just quicker than I expected." "At least we won't die alone." "Sinbad?" "You thought they'd let you go?" "Yes, I did." "You came." "There's a lot of them." "So, what's the plan?" "How do we get out of this?" "Anwar..." "An army of this size?" "There is no plan." "We're too exposed out here." "We have to get out of full height." "Well, can't you do something?" "Make a spell or a shield?" "You've had your three questions." "You answer that girl now or I'm going to gut you like a pig." "I can do nothing." "I'm not a fighting god." "I'm sorry." "Rina?" "Rina!" "Rina, Rina." "Listen, it's going to be all right." "Look at me, look at me." "Rina, look at me." "Look at me." "You're going to be okay." "You're going to be okay, you just have to hold on." "Look at me, Rina, just hold on, okay?" " Sinbad..." " I know." "Just hold on for me, yeah?" "Hold on, Rina." "Rina?" "Rina!" "It's all my fault." "We all chose to be here." "Kuji, please, there must be something you can do." "I'm not a healing god either." "How do you feel, Anwar?" " They're coming for us!" " It is as it is." "Gunnar!" "Sinbad!" "Sinbad." "Now you are defeated." "Surrender the god or die." "Now you're scared." "Give me a weapon and run for the sea." "Swim with me." "The Providence is close." "You won't be in the water long." "Go!" "I can't." "I can't leave you." "Then you win, Anwar." "What?" "That's all I needed to hear." "But... how did you..." "Told you I was a god." "You could do it?" "You are a fighting god." " That's not exactly" " Then why didn't you do it when my friends were alive?" "Why didn't you save them?" "I'm going to save them." "That's the second lesson." "Second lesson?" "Today, you would have left Sinbad, left the Providence." "You know it in your heart." "Yes." "Yes, I would." "Life exists in lines." "Occasionally, for the good of all, we gods interrupt those lines." "Sinbad needs you." "He needs you more than anyone." "And a god was needed to convince you to stay." "Sinbad... needs me?" "There is a journey he needs to go on." "A journey harder than any he's faced." " And you will be essential for him." " Essential?" "Essential." "What's the journey?" "I didn't defeat the soldiers." "I created the soldiers to teach you that you are brave and you belong." "You belong in a way that's pure, that's magnificent." "When you went missing, they tracked you down." "Now, for proof of that belonging, your friends can live again." "But only if I leave." "It's an easy choice, really, isn't it?" "One last thing before I go." "Before you go?" "I haven't made a decision yet." "Yes, you have." "In another life, you and me." "It would have been nice." "You're a god." "I made it all." "I controlled it all." "The only thing I wasn't in control of was my feelings." "Teenage body, teenage urges." "Look after Sinbad." "Tell him nothing." "Be ready to be strong for him." "I know you won't let him down." "You won't remember me, will you?" "You'll forget me." "Where is the war?" "There was a war." "I remember a war." "I won the war, Gunnar." " I won it for all of us." " Did you now?" "Where's the girl?" "Where's Kuji?" "She had to go." "What happened to the troops?" "I scared them off." "Turns out I'm stronger than you think." "Stronger than I think." "Your little goddess friend must have told you more." "I thought you weren't supposed to tell him anything." "I haven't." "Now we are trapped." "We are trapped!" "You are the one." "The assassin who will kill me." "I have."