"Year 1747." "By the will of big politic powers parts of Croatia are under power of" "Venetian Republic, while Bosnia and Herzegovina is in Turkish Empire" "Restless border divides west and east, Christian Europe and Islam." "Schism of Christians to catholic majority and orthodox minority boosts tensions." "Lord, oh Lord, if this was your deed, its was evil deed." "It is evil that you divided us to false faiths and true faiths" "If this was Your punishment for human beasty nature, its a cruel punishment of Yours" "Much bigger than all human sins from birth to death" "Do you accede to God by your common sense and free will?" "Yes." "With Gods help, abbot" "Do you waive all worldly and profane, according to Gods command?" "Yes, abbot." "Destiny disjoined me for Petar Revach," "Accused that he gave me to foreign faith." "Forgive them, oh Lord, they did not realize the truth did not know what is a fear in child's heart" "Oh Lord, will I recognize my own brother after 12 years?" "12 years before" "At the Year of the Lord 1735, my mother took us to Christmas mass at demolished church of St. Archangel" "THE HORSEMAN" "waiting the blessed hope And advent of Glory of the Great God and Savior of ours, Jesus Christ who gave himself for us in order to redeem us from all sins and cleared his way following the good deed." "That speak and spread in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord" "Thank to God" " Thank to God." "Praised be Jesus and Mary!" "Merry Christmas and Jesus birth!" " Merry Christmas!" "Merry Christmas" " Merry Christmas" "We give as we have and we have a few." "When it's form hearth even few is a lot." "And will be more blessed that if it was form a rich" "We live as we can And praise to God for it." "Merry Christmas and Jesus birth!" " Merry Christmas!" "At Midnight gave birth to him, and lay him down to a straw." "And star appeared the birth announced" "The three kings rushed and the child in manger found" "Gold gave him, bowed to the light of the world" "Mother was hiding our poverty with a smile." "Merry Christmas" "If is not, will be!" "His children should eat meat at Christmas" "Father!" "Father!" "He will steal a sheep from Nechven, Venetian fortress, but will return it, when the situation becomes better." "If they are protecting us from Turks, let them protect us from hunger." "The captain of Nechven, venetian servant, did not think like that." "He was punishing his own people worst than the Turks did" "In a barrel in from of the house our father bleeded and got frozen" "The captain of Nechven burnt our house as an example to others" "Ivan, mother!" "Mother!" "You are not a Turk to steal a sheep." "A Christian should not steal from a Christian." "Mother!" "Mother!" "My brother Petar Revach saved me." "But in that glowing, hells bath our mother was burned." "Survivors, without family and home me and my brother were alone in this world." "Only God was with us." "A friar took us to a mountain to the blind Martin, to heel our wounds." "We were afraid of him, but he catch the fancy on us." "Painful!" "What is a man but a voice." "When the wounds are gone a way will be waiting for you" "Keep a soul, not to loose a head." "A water connects and divides." "When you cross the river, the brother you will loose!" "The stick is telling you: this is your way!" "A month later we crossed a river and road up into the world." "On the trade fair in Dragovich the life divided us." "Give to a poor, God will pay you." "Will not, you thief, give me back my salary!" "That's better" "Among the people the Venetian captain was selecting recruits and was taking them to Nechven fortress to train them to be horsemen" "Take, my friend." "More daring and younger - more better." "The captain forgot the murder of my parents." "You like it?" "You will get this one when you join the service of Nechven captain." "Will your master feed him?" "He will make it through" "I knew your father, Nikola." "We were shepherd together as boys, me on this side, and him on that side." "We loved and understand each other so much.." "He can stay in monastery." "will be a shepherd, and later we'll see." "My brother, Petar Revach took the horsemen service, and I pass over, as they say, to another side." "From our catholic faith to orthodox faith." "But what does it mean to change a side?" "Is it possible to take any side but the one that you are already in?" "Ivan!" " Petar!" "You did not take the door I told you!" "Petar Revach!" "And you give your brother to Eastern faith!" "There was no third was for two of us..." " Out brother Nikodem is taken a pledge of angel image, to easily win all mights and attacks of chief and commander of darkness of this world." "Until now you were Ivan, shepherd of monastery sheep flock, from now on you are Nikodem, our brother." "You will take care for the flock we take care." "Petar Revach." " Ivan." "A God did not allowed us to realize the developments that will change the life of my brother." "A Turk named Mujaga Lulich agha of Grahovo, was gather a sheep flock, to propose a hand of" "Leyla, the daughter of the bay of Duvno." "He was stealing sheep, killing and looting at both sides of the border." "Take this, you infidel!" "Damn semen." "From hell you came in hell you will end up." "Maybe I was not so clear, or you did not understand me totally, Sir." "Agha of Grahovo," "Mujaga Lulich is our first neighbor after the Turkish border." "That thief is stealing." "Looting everywhere." "Mujaga Lulich is gathering a new sheep flock." "The hundredths and hundredth of sheep." "And that is just a beginning." " All that will end up in Duvno at Jafer-bey Kopchich's hand." " If he manage to take the hand of Leyla, his daughter, the Jafer-bey will start helping him with army." "This part of the Turkish border will become stronger." "Who will stop him then?" " Jafer-bey will never give daughter to this kind of idiot as Mujaga is." "Jafer will give to the one who give the best offer." "And what you will get?" "You are clever, but you are risking life." "His excellence, the governor is bespeaking, to think a lot about a new circumstances." "Mujaga's gifts are not allowed to get to Duvno." "You don't know where you came." "An even less you are aware with whom you are having job." "Better trade, you man from Dubrovnik." "Get him!" "Get him, Revach!" "I will fuck your mums, bloody infidels!" "He sent you to me?" " Because you deserved death" "You tied an affiance with a Turk." "You, Petar." "You can not with your own brother, what about with a person of another faith." "The truth is: you spared Mujaga's life cause he promised you a bag of goldfinch, to go across the Velebit mountain to Austria, and buy yourself a land?" " You know very well that it is a lie!" "I don't know and I'm not interested." " He sent you to me to kill me as a traitor!" "Shit, my friend." "Only God knows what I am doing now, sparing you life." "Go away!" "If I die pray to our and their God." "It's only one God, he will hear you." "I hope it is one." "Only God can save us, but will not." "We did not deserve is." "Go away!" "Go ahead!" "Say first!" "Why did you spare my life?" "Anyway, I don't believe to you anything" "Anything, until you prove it with a saber that you hate that swine from Nechven fortress." "Now, immediately!" "It's up to you, agha, to test me." "Death is a door, at the all world will enter." "Death is a beverage, that will all of us drink." "Death is bitterness, everybody will taste it," "Grave is a house, into which every human being will enter" "Damn pagans!" "He prepared you a trap" "Go and check it!" "I don't like you, Revach." "Wherever you are, death is there." "If a fly hits this edge, it will cut its ass" "Thanks God, Welcome, Shahsivar." "Nice name you got." ""Shahsivar" it means a good rider, a horsemen." "Do you have a soul, you convert?" "You don't understand?" "Well, you will You have enough of time." "Bit by bit." "In front of you is a whole new world, for whom you did not know that it even exists." "We did this to yours." "And this yours did to us." "If he wants me to be his son-in-law I will be." "If he doesn't want - his will." "He need me on the border." "With me he is stronger." "Your pigs destroy our village to me, and my crew destroy to him two or five as much as we want." "However, I am giving him a sheep flock." "And I will rent you to him, to test you a bit." "You will watch a bit what Leyla is doing and how she behaves while all suitors are flying around her pantaloons" "Watch and than you will tell me." "Some other whom you don't know will tell me, if you are watching carefully" "Give us a little of food, you groom" "I ply if a food is ready!" "Thank you for your gifts, agha." "These days I am loaded with gifts from everywhere as my daughter is the only girl in this world" "Along with sheep I brought you a deserter, a horsemen of Nechven's captain" "He took our religion, says that he had some apparition and told him to change the religion" "That's what he says." "But I don't believe to him" "He is mine, and let him serve you." "I'm giving him along the sheep" "You can keep him if you have a need" "But you can do this with him." "What kind of name you gave him?" " Shasivar the convert." "What a hell will I do with him.." "I have enough of converts" "So, here I don't have with whom to play chess." "That kind of country is here" " I can not play chess, neither" "It would be better if you knew" "Because if you knew, you would not be so stupid to steal sheep to Venetians" "Those are my sheep, master" "Mine?" "Yours?" "Because of people like you" "I have to play chess with a guy from Istanbul sultans officer, Balaban Benjalan, knowledgeable man" "I move a figure and write it down, send a letter to Travnik to find a caravan, that goes to the capital." "In the same way Balaban is sending me his moves." "In opposite direction." "My Mujaga, that is the way it should be done Slow and clever." "Not as fast and foolish as you do" "Welcome, you convert" "You have seen on the yard a one similar to you" "Came here, took our religion, and stayed with us." "ate from the same kettle, Married here, got a children, until we discovered, that he is a spy." "So, here is a chance to test you, unexpectedly" "And if you don't wont, say, brother, "I don't wont"." "And you, Mujaga, do not take out the weapons without thinking and don't rob if you have not the strength to defend the stolen" "Look at the window, And you will see that you do not know even a man you brought me" "My, Mujaga, all that is known." "Even that this convert spared your life" "Keep your eyes opened and don't miss anything" "I will come back in a month" "Wait, gentleman I'm listening you and wonder" "Why should we care about Austria?" "We are for diplomacy:" "nice and soft." "For talks and arrangements." "Damn Croatians!" "Is this a lunch for a captain!" "?" "With what kind of savages we have to deal.." "Not even a flock of sheep he can not take and keep." "His horsemen are crossing to the enemies" "Get me wine!" "Quickly!" "Mr. Andreas Carssi is a man I had on mind." "From Dubrovnik, which is not unimportant, with diplomatic experience." "Young, healthy, non-corrupted." "7 years he was in Istanbul, knows Turkish, Arabic and Slavic language, diplomatic languages at the Ottoman court." "Excellently knows oriental mentality little less of Slavic mentality, but he has enough of time" "Soon, he will marry my nice." "As the first, you should go to Duvno, to meet Jafer-bey Kopchich." "Then to Travnik, to meet beylerbey Hejimug Ali Pasha." "Try to heel the damage this idiot made." "We need peace now." "And do not underestimate them." "They are wise and cunning" "You will take this to Jafer-bey" "They all will disappear, but Venice stays here Forever." "We are finished." "Second" "It got stuck" "What kind of devil you did there so there is such a huge chase for you?" "You should live the faith, just change is not enough" "I heard you don't pray nor know anything about our faith?" "And not even want to know Its not the way the faith is lived." "Don't hit me" "The convert, you are putting your head on a stump" "The price for what you saw in that room is your head" "And for this..." "For this you will be tortured" "How nice you smell?" "You, convert!" "Revach." "I'm going." " Wait." " Give me back this!" "I'm risking my head for you" " I just wanted to tell you, not to watch me." "Or you will loose your head!" "Help me to get on the horse" "Give me back this, you convert" "What are you waiting, help me." " Call your servant to help you" "When will you come again?" "Never" "I will come when this scarf starts to fly." "Happy bey, this is a gift of the one in whose name I'm coming" "His Lordship, Jakov Boldun, Governor of Dalmacia and Albania, by God's grace" "His Lordship asks bey, that on the long border dividing Bosnia from Dalmatia, tone down his men and force them to respect the peace agreed by Venetian Republic and Ottoman Empire." "Unrests are harmful for both." "Both of us should strictly punish the one who are violating the peace" "I slay, rob, hang, cut heads," "And impaling them if necessary." "In vain." "They say something like "they are fighting for honour and faith"" "In fact, they are fighting to steal." "And now, when the peace is proclaimed, without honour and faith - they can." "but without looting - they can not!" "They should be afraid of Allah." "I afraid of him as well." "More than anyone." "cause I am closer to him than anyone." "Mister, take a look through the window, what you see?" "They are looking towards here Waiting for something." "Its the same everyday in the noon Every year." "I think about God, Venetian." "Those beggars are great prayers they will spread my glory to all Empire's corner and ensure the eternal felicity in paradise" "And something else, my Mister, we respect the peace." "but we respect the God's law that to every deserter, especially if he converts to our religion, should be given protection." "Was he the one that was violating the peace or your people who violated the armistice, and stole the sheep and killed the man to Mujaga Lulich, dizdar of Grahovo?" "I see this man for the first time." "I ask just support for peace." "You have mine." "But support, without confirmation of Hakim-Pasha Bosnian baylerbay, means nothing" "Go to Travnik, Ali-Pasha is the highest authority in this part of the Empire I am his preacher" "Deputy?" " And counsellor." "And this modest gift, work of goldsmiths of Dubrovnik to happy girl, surrounded with so many proposers." "As we say: happily you wore it and even more happily take it off." "This idiot Mujaga again?" "Why he came so early." "You are going with him to Grahovo, I will stay here." "Even there I will keep my eye on you." "Come on, say, have you seen her face?" " Sparsely, just from a distance." "Have you had a talk with her?" " Yes, I had." "Just like this we are talking now?" " Almost like this." "She smells so nice." "What smells?" "Her voice smells, isn't it?" "No, Leyla." "She smells." "Well, its only she is allowed to you" "Is there some girls for you?" "For a coin or two." "No." "They stink." " Stink?" "Stink." "What kind of father is that Jafer-bey, that allows to his own daughter to talk in front of servants with guards?" "Jafer-bey is a wise father and a wise master." "Takes care about everything." "And takes care to daughter not to go far away." "But I am afraid that all this with Layla wont be like that." "And will not, as much as I know." "Well, what you know about Layla?" "Its going to be hard to a man to be happy with her." "He will be less happy than a dog." "But with that dog's happiness you wont be bothered." "You happy man..." "You are not going to Grahovo?" " No." "Is it my horse?" "Don't be afraid." "Lets go" " Wait." "Where are we going?" " To the safe place." "To mountains." "You are crazy, Revach." "I cant go just like that, should I go back to take some cloth?" "Where will you take me?" "To which side?" "Martin." "Revach." "Her name is Leyla." " Who is she?" "A women." "Take two coins." "One is for you, another for St. Archangel." "Tell them, I have not forgot him, while I was in in Lucifer's army." "And this take to my brother." "He should give this to the Captain of Nechven." "I'm not guilty, the evidence is inside." "Let the captain hide me somewhere, or pay me off so I will go to Austria, not to be the burden to Turks nor Venetians." " What is in the bag?" "Slowly!" "Love doesn't ask for hurry!" "Slowly!" "Quiet!" "You are the first man who is watching and touching my body." "I fascinate you" "I called you to me" "It wasn't you." "You did not call me." "It was me." "Is that you, Dizdar?" "Is that you, Mujaga Lulic?" "Good, my hero!" "And I was always wondering," "From where he will come." "From which bush will protrude your filthy arse." "Among my horseman, your brother, priest, was the greatest raff." "Who can believe to him?" "As he cut the heads of this Dizdar he would cut it to anyone, if he has some profit out of it." "He does not asks to much from you, captain" "To hide him in Nechven or to pay him of his salary" "Maybe this is a head of another man, similar to Dizdar?" "You can expect anything from Revach." "Our bills are paid." "Take this bag, I don't want to rotten with it." "It stinks." "Take it out." "Oh my Lord, save my brothers life." "Dont let him die young." "Now, when he wish to live like a man" "Petar, what your christian name means?" "A rock." "Revach is the one who brays." "Leyla!" "Petar!" "Petar!" "What they are doing now in Duvno?" "Do they searching for us?" "They are looking for you, and they will start the search for me." "They would drown me in a first creek." "Why you are looking me like that?" "Those who escape to Christians are drown in creek" "If anyone asks you about me you don't know nothing?" "You are going to Zadar." "Don't be afraid." "We can not live with mine." "not with yours." "But to a third country." "To Austria." "So why should we separate now?" " To cheat them." "They should not find that we are together." "You will take my religion." "In Zadar?" " And than you will ask them to let you go to Austria." "You will be waiting for me there." "Or I will be waiting for you." "Who comes first - waits." "Let us go to Austria immediately." " Ali-Pasha will ask your extradition." "You have to change the religion by your own free will." "Let's stay here." "Then, they will ask my head." "Do you know what my name means?" "Black night" "Dark" "But it was blessed night." "The night when Mohamed became the prophet" "When Allah sent him the first message." "The night when sins are forgiven." "In which night you made your sin?" "In the most beautiful one." "Water joined you Water disjoined you." "You go this way, and you go that." "If you make mistake again you will see your brother but will not find him" "So, that is the sea" "Oh, Lord, have mercy" "You will take my horse, I will take Mujaga's." "What are you doing here?" " The Lord Governor himself will answer you to your question." "The lady will have to wait to enter the city." "That's the rule." "First, we have to decontaminate you in a quarantine," "And than you will be examined to check if you have some illness" "We especially strictly obey this rule for those who are coming from Bosnia." "Why?" "Others are not dirty and sick?" "Don't be angry, lady." "Its obvious that you are healthy and impudent." "The rule is for scumbags" "Here is so stinky." " No remedy for that." "People are stinky." "Prayer book." "Am I asking impossible?" "It is a true what I herd." "That you escaped from Bosnia to Dalmatia, in order to crossover from Islam to our catholic religion." "It's a big decision." "A hard." "Are you sure about that big and hard decision?" "You had a miraculously annunciation?" "I can't tell you, Sir." "Let this stay my secret." "How come, didn't you think, that your decision will become matter of dispute between two states and two religions?" "That you and your deeds will be governed more by someone else than by yourself" "I don't understand what this person is asking me." " Wait, Andria." "don't confuse the child." "This case is a matter of conscience." "About freedom of religion." "According to our last peace agreement, everyone who wants to cross from one state to another , of course, if no crime was committed before that will get protection of the state in which a person wants to live." "As a love towards a God is not a crime , we owe protection to this lady." "Maybe this example shows how catholic faith is superior to other faiths." "I wanted to say, your Excellency, that our protection will be as strong as her decision , to take catholic religion stays strong." " Take care for lady to find accommodation at Hospice of St. Mary's Monastery as soon as next morning." "Here is so stinky." "Who it stinks so much here?" "His Excellency approved the conversation but not in private." "That the law." " Mother!" " What are you doing here, Leyla?" "The great harm you are doing to us." "My daughter, come back home with me." "I'm not asking you to give up your love towards Christian God, if that is the motive. mum is giving you a promise, that I will take care for a place and moments of your prayer." "Come back home, do not shame your family." "If you had just knew, that everything is temporarily." "Everything disappears." "Don't bow your head" "Look at your mother" "Father says, that its all my fault, cause I allowed to female whelp without brain and honour, to do whatever she wanted" "What else should I expect?" "What else of humiliation will I have to pass?" "Come back home." "Come back to me." " No!" "Leyla." "You don't want to go home?" "You don't want?" "Than we will treat you in other way, you, ingrate." "Than we will do this!" "This!" "Want more?" "!" "Go home!" "don't want?" "I beg you." "Don't wont?" "You are harder than a stone." "Mother!" "The captain of Nechven changed his opinion overnight." "Now he told you to come." "I don't believe to him." "I was suspicious, that he, bitch, will ease up" "Tell him that I'm coming" "Don't forget If you move the crucifix, and when its flashes on a snow, I will know what to do." "Don't be afraid for me, my brother" "Praised be Jesus!" "." " Praised be Jesus!" "Lets go, priest." "Let's welcome your brother together" "So, how's going at captain?" "Serving, not complaining." "On horses!" "Get him!" "I'm not blaming you, priest." "Situations are terrible." "Horrible." "If we miss to arrest your brother Revach and miss to extradite him, alive or dead better alive than dead, Bosnian beylerbey will stop trading with Venetian Republic and redirect it to Dubrovnik." "And his robber Begovich will give free hands." "Trade will be redirected to Dubrovnik?" "Well, Dubrovnik man, I am shocked." "You really think that, in from of you stands a knowledgeable priest from a European city?" "Lift his mantle, and beat his butt with 50 stripes." "You can talk with him only with stick" "That's enough, captain." "You stopped smashing pottery vessels and furniture, and that is laudable." "But if you continue to chatter around you will become a disturbance" "Help us, priest." "In the name of the Christian faith and brother love" " To betray him?" "Brotherhood is not against the faith." "It comes from faith." "Who is talking about betrayal?" "Your brother doesn't have alternative." "We will get him sooner or later" "Are you not afraid of God's judgement?" "He doesn't have where to go." "Wherever he comes, there sin is." "Betrayal is betrayal, Sir." "However eloquent you are you can not find another word for betrayal" "Petar doesn't have where to go." " You can not expect from me , to betray my brother for a state." "Who are we to judge?" " We are wasting our time with you, monastery mule" "Turks will rob and burn your monastery" "It wont be the first time." "And in the case of war we all are busted" "My man will, it's known, share the destiny of all" "You don't know much about us, Sir." "Learn, maybe you will figure out." "Stop, Petar." " I stopped." "You can not kill two my man just like that." "I can." " Too quickly." "You don't have reason for doubt, Petar." "Now I am Petar, you have just that to tell me?" "Killed two and now I'm too quick?" "Maybe they deserved that" "There is still a chance to welcome you nicely" "There was enough of chance and will be" "But not for two of us" "We finished our game" "Therefore, now we will slay each other" "Don't be crazy, Revach." "What are you waiting, captain?" "No forgiveness!" "Nor I got it any - Don't, Petar!" "Pull out!" "Pull out!" "Don't touch him!" "He persuaded him to catch you and deliver to Turks But its not his fault." "He is one of these who are coming here, but don't know where they came, don't touch him." " Why should I touch him?" "He did not any harm to me." "Take money and run, run!" "Run where?" " To Austria, across the Zrmanja river." "And what is across Zrmanja river?" "A state, just like here." "If Turks and Venetians got agreed so easily" "Vienna and Venice will make agreement even easier." "I asked you nicely not to come back" "God sent angel Gabriel into the place of Nazareth to a virgin, engaged with a man, named Joseph." "and he was from David's progeny." "A virgin had name Mary." "Angel came to her and said" "You will conceive and give birth to a son and name him Jesus," "And there will be no end to his Kingdom" "Mary ask him:" "How to give a birth to a son when I did not meet my husband?" "And Angel answers:" "Holy Spirit will come upon you and power of Almighty will shine you" "Therefore the child will be sacred" " Mary said:" "My Lord how can I have a child when no man touched me?" "And God answers him:" "Allah creates what ever wants." "She accepts and just says:" "Let it be And it be." "Where did you herd that?" "From sura in Koran" "It was written there?" " Of Course, it's written." "Her labour pain lead her to think if only she died before this." "In Koran its not written Jesus and Mary, but Issa and Merima." " O, Merima." "God is sending you joyful news Issa died, Merima's son." "And in your book was Jesus crucified?" "Of course, but, they did not killed him nor strangled him, it was just seemed" "Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus." "Sister Romana, why you are mentioning my name?" "We pray to God to give you a strength in only and true faith" "You infidel shit!" "Ali-Pasha says, not to send this human shit to him in Travnik, but to take him to Duvno and give him to Jafer" " Bay Kopchich." "There he was stinking, there he should be thrown on a dump" "I brought you another pillow" "With raised head you will sleep better." "You see, I'm not so sure are you" "Are you waht you say you are and if not why you are not" "You don't understand?" "Then I will aks you more simple question" "Are you asking a comfort in a new faith" "Or you want to show to all that you exist in this world." " I don't know." "I don't know the answer to this question." "And even if I had know, I would not give you the answer." "The Pasha of Bosnia sent some person named Ismail-effendi." "Knowladgeble man, they say." "Polite, very polite." "and very cruel." "Cunning." "He came to interrogate you and find what you really want?" "And it's not hard to guess that he is only interested if you firmly decided to change your faith" " Let them leave me alone!" "My God, what a crazy child you are." "You thing that above our will there is nothing else in this world?" "That everythig should be as we want?" "It's not the case." "And you know know that as well." "Sir Governor is a gentlemen." "He had to accept Ismail-effendi's demands." "And his escort is raging in the quarantine." "Why he accepted?" "If the Governor is such a gentleman why he did not asked me if I want to be interrogated?" "What to ask you?" "You have to." "Leyla, there are things in this world that are above us" "Only suiciders do not bend their heads in front of these things." "Selma is sending greeting to you." " Selma?" "Yes." "A relative of yours came here with Ismail-efendia." "Selma." "I want to see her." "You'll see her if you want." "Today at noon." "Yes, of course I want." "There allways can be found some good." "A short lesson will be useful?" "Mary was standing under the crucifix..." "Leyla, what is with you?" "I can listen you, Venetian." "I don't need this." "Or you affraid to look into my eyes?" "I am not a Venetian." "And what do you what, Sir?" " To the bey!" "Take me to your bey!" " No way." "The bey is sleeping." "Take, the bey is sending this." "Everything costs." "And say thanks to Venetian." "Thats the Bay's message." "I will wait Bey to wake up!" "We all know why we met here." "It's up to you, Leyla, to answer a single question." "So I ask you:" "Leyla, are you stil a moslem?" "Yes, I am." "But warmly want to abandon a faith of a dessert merchant, who trained a dove to fly down on his shoulder and peck millet grains from his ear." "People were watching that , and he claimed, that the dove is telling him a God's messages." "Leyla." " Selma." "What are you talking?" "Leyla?" " What I was learned." "We aks you, Lord, give to our sister, to, lerarned about sacred secrets, rebuild with baptismal water and become a member oy Your church.." "To Christ our Lord." "Do you deny the Satan?" " I deny." "And all his deeds?" " I deny." "And all his shine?" " I deny." "You you believe in God, Father Allmighty, creator of the Heaven and the Earth" " I believe." "Accept the sign of the crucifix on your forehead and your heart." "Hate moslem false faith." "Renounce evil infidel sect." "Respect God, Father Allmighty, and his only son, our Lord" "Jesus Christ" "I baptize you in the name of the father, and the son and the holly spirit." "Eeverything is clear." "Give us the girl." "In this circumstances no way." "The girl is a moslem, and the Ali-Pasha's letter is clear to you." "The girl was baptized in a full church of St. Chrysogonus." "I was not there." "Nor heard, nor seen, that the girl was baptized." "I do not recognize that baptism and Ali-Pasha will not rocognize it" "We said ti me that she is a moslem." "You cheated her on the interrogation." "Pasha writes clearly:" "I will use all my power, the power of the Ottoman Empire, to show, ones for all, to Venetians, where their plots should end." "Plots?" "He's right." "Is a plot my willingness, to make a new interrogation with a girl?" "Let it be in public." "In front of all." "I will order that all citizens of Bosnian Pasha who are in the city should be present." "And you freely ask her, in front of all, if she wants to stay a Christian, what she is now, or she will go with you to Duvno." "Whatever she decide, it's all the same for me." "The Catholic gets nothing even when all a city gets baptized, so one child means nothing." "I already dent a letter to Ali-Pasha." "He will find my envoy quickly." "I have enought of time." "Give Leyla or you will have a war." "Make your decision." "I and Pasha's envoy." "You have to feed me." "Feed my men and our horses." "And if you expel me back to Bosnia by force, without Leyla," "I will come back quickly." "Send this to Ali-Pasha, to Travnik." "Sorry, reverend" "No need to say sorry." "If it was not you it would be someone else." "Petar will have the destiny of reverend Serafim." "Reverend Serafim." "Reverend, take this money." " Why for?" "When I took my service I didn't know anything about here." "Then you were not suppose to accept the service." "How anyone can execute orders and not participate in with soul and reason?" "I'm going wo wash my hands." "Swear on this cross that you will keep the secret of Petra and Leyla." "They escaped together." "To live somewhere in Austria, anywhere." "Revach and Leyla?" "Revach and Leyla?" "Go to Travnik and beg Ali-Pasha to spare Petar's life." "Lie, cheat, bribe." "I don't have to teach you that." "I have not heard you swear." "I swear!" "Selma." "Our house is empty and lonely without you, Leyla." "I was dreaming you." " Mum, dad everyone are waiting, you to come back?" " Do parents worry?" "They are worried, Leyla." "But less now, cause the troubles are going to finish." "They forgot you everything, and are waiting you to come back." " They forgot me all?" "He got soft." "I can't go back, Selma." "And I dont want." " You don't want?" "But he came back to Duvno and is waiting for you." "Who came back?" " Your Petar." "Petar the who?" "Revach." "The one you escaped with." "Mujaga's infidel?" "I almost forgot him." "I have not escaped with him, Selma." "I came here alone by my own will." "Don't lie, Layla." "You two were seen." "Only I and mum know with whom you escaped" "We did not tell to anyone." "Well, somebody saw wrong, my sweet." "You made mistake." "Why are you lying to your Leyla, Selma?" "They persuaded you?" "Send greetings to Ismail-effendi." "Selma." "Will withstand?" " have to." "Here I come." "I wont miss it for noting in this world." "Oh, splendid" "Give me a hand." "Where to start, Bey?" " How you wish, my son." "Now you will pay for the one that is known and for the one that is unknown." "Stop!" "No, Jafer." "I beg you to Allah." "To stop?" "I have not even started, yet." "And why you are so concerned about his bollocks?" " No, because of Leyla." "How do you mean, because of Leyla?" "They two?" "Well really asks strong bollocks." "You bitch." "He seduced and grabbed my daughter." "She left Allah for this scumbag." "Give me a knife." "Let me see if I am capable to slay him." " If Layla returns, she will loose her man." "If not, do with him whatever you want." "I pray just for her happiness." " And who says that I love her so much?" "What if I am not able to bear so horrable shame?" "Damn this fucking life, when I'm not capable even to slay a man." "Read!" "It's not good, my bey" " Let me see" "Knight to C-1." "I lost the queen." "Chain him, unitil Ismail-effendi comes back." "With Layla or without." "Everybody are crazy about tulips." "And you, Christians, are giving them to us like a colorful glases to savages, and we developed sorts that you can't even dream about." "Are you joking with us?" "In our Empire this time will be remembered as time of tuplis." "Excuse me, Ali-Pasha." " Forget it." "I don't see some other way to calm down my nation." "People should be calmed with beating And you can not without performances and show." "If you had returned us that girl immediatelly the conflict would not even exist" "Happy Pasha, Layla is now a christian." "It can not be returned" " Rubbish." "Everything can be done." " we are offering a solution" "Let the girl be interrogated publicly again" "In front of your envoy, our citizens and in front of your merchants." "Write." "I order to Ismail-effendi to bring up the girl, but without force." "Thats what I can ease up." "Not more." "Not a bit more." "You will writte as Pasha said. but you will add that" "Pasha agrees new intergogation to be held." "Write." "I have another asking." "Does happy Pasha remember that convert Petar Revach," "I extradited, according to your order, to Jafer-bey in Duvno?" "I would like to buy him." " From intrigants, like you, Venetians, are, I expected such kind of offer." "Don't feel insulted, but, you like to trade with sombodies death." "So be it, let us trade." "That former convert, killer Petar Revaca, worth, approximatelly, five racial stallions." "No bargaining." "Thank you, happy Pasha!" "Hey you." "You are walking and sleeping, talking and sleeping" "Smajo, Fadil!" "I can, I can." "A poor diplomat you are, Venetian servant." "You will write one letter as Venetian proposed." "Let him take it." "Give him another one for Jafer-bey." "In that one you will say him not to touch Revach until Ismail-efendi comes back" "Let the little ones think they are making politics, This way is easier." "And by our fast courier send secret letter to Governor, that I'm accepting his proposal." "In return for that infidel girl I'm asking the ship, they confiscated to us." "That's it." "Old thief." "That ship they stole to us five years ago, renamed it overpaint it." "And now consider to be their." "For the peace we have to keep silent." "But the ship is nice, big." "If I return it to Venice the Dodge would know how to reward it." "Niether I believe to that little Turkish girl." "I made mistake allowing so quick baptism." "How many people know about her romance with the deserter?" "More and more." "Tomasso, I'am dreaming Venice." "This ship is a nice opportunity to return there and become a Dodge's counsellor, let's say." "I will need a secretary." "Do you have anything against to meet in the Dodge's palace?" "No?" "All registrars have similar handwriting." "You will add raw or two to Ali Pasha's letter, in which you will say that Revac is already executed." "Dead." "You will take the letter into monastery and show it to the Turkish girl." "Maybe she change her mind and return home." "We wont loose anything and the Turks will think they got something." "Don't say nothing to Dubrovnik man." "He is too soft." "Open!" "I have a letter for Jafer-bey from Ali-Pasha!" "A letter you say?" "He made a deal with Ali-Pasha." "He bribed him, the Dubrovnik man thinks that with a grasp of gold he can buy an assurance that he is helping to everyone." "Take the letter, but don't allow him to enter." "The letter." "Take me to bay." "Ali-Pasha ordered to take Petar Revac." "I will ask." "The letter." "I heard, Dubrovnik man!" "Thank you!" "Wait!" "The traitor you can see." "But you can not take him, before Ismail-effendi retuns." "He is alive." "Take horses as quick as possible!" "I see that the news affected you" "Let the dear God be merciful to the soul of the robber and killer." "Mister Andria will confirm truthfulness of the news when he comes back." "Crazy mother feeds you, to be her pet." "Maybe one day you will be my master." "That Dubrovnik man payed off your life." "However, I don't know if Jafer will accept that." "Do you believe in Allah?" "The Bog is one, they say." "But I think is not." "As many man, the same for gods." "What is a God but just an interpretation" "Now you choose." "Others are making choice for you." "It's not easy to me but nor to you." "He is alive and waiting for you." "Tomorrow you do as you agreed." "Say the truth." "There is no more truth." "No." "The truth is I gave him to your father as a bandit of the worst kind." "But it is truth, as well, that I bought his, life form Ali-Pasha." "Ali-Paša wrote to your father:" "If she escaped and took Christianity let the devil take her If she wants to come back let the Allah keep her." "You know what it means?" "Nun, was anyone here before me?" "Somebody told you that Revach is killed?" "That is a lie." "He is alive." "I saw him." "Petar Revach is alive." "A lost of lies was told here.." "But God understands and forgives." "Layla, believe me, Revach is alive." "Its going to be horribly if you do not believe me." "You are lying." "I understand you." "But you are lying Dubrovnik man." "Mister secretary was here." "Did you, Layla, daughter of the Duvno bey" "Jafer Kopchich, by your free will take christian faith and do you accept Jesus as your Lord?" "Dear Lady, do you want me to repeat the question?" "Allah is only God, and Mohamed is his prophet." "So you had a nice game with me." "What is a few little human destinies comparing to the great politics of yours." "They lied to her." "Oh, Lord, how they terribly lied to her." "Only to God is allowed to look at human hearts and reveil the truth of human intentions." "Do not mention the God, now, sister we both know very well who send her into death." "I'm not finished." "I'm going back to Bosnia now." "Don't go there, Andrija." "It's dangerous." "And I, I started to like her." " Me as well, sister." "Wish me luck." "Courier has come." "Layla is taken back to Duvno." "If you dont intercept them, both of you will loose your heads." "He could not escape to far away." "Take the men." "Tell them not to come back withouth his head." "And her..." "What did you tell them?" "Where didi you send them?" "Fuck off, you bitch!" "Oh, Leyla." "You think it's easy for me?" "Is it time, Yusuf." " No!" "Don't be affraid." "Your father will judge you, not me." "Revach!" "I'll fuck your infidel mum..." "Where are you?" "!" "Come!" "Give me that!" "Don't be affraid, efendi!" "Selma." "Selma." "Where are you, convert?" "Come out, to see you, you coward" "Layla!" "Layla!" "You scumbag!" "50 years after, by the will of the great powers" "Venetian Republic ceased to exist." "150 years after, Ottoman Empire collapsed, and Turkey forever lost Bosnia and Herzegovina ." "Dusty document about a daughter of bosnian bey who took catholic faith by her free willl was found forgoten on a shelf in the city archive of Croatian Zadar." "Translation:" "Pavle Moèilac"