Ep 216 Script

ree and farrah entering ree’s childhood bedroom. it’s sterile with nothing on the walls.

F: they’ve…taken everything. all the portraits you painted over, your antique weapons collection, those weird snowglobes your great aunt sent you every winter solstice -

R: guess they don’t mess around when your disgraced daughter drops everything and runs away with her secret lover, huh? I’m more surprised they didn’t just burn the whole room down in anger or something.

F: (opens her mouth to speak)

R: - don’t. i know you’re gonna say we still have time to leave. I’m done running, Farrah. I may not like them, or agree with literally anything they do, but if I’m back here then  I want to at least be civil with them. this country isn’t that big, we’d always run into each other sooner or later. Especially if my brothers have anything to do with it.

F: you know your mother, she’s going to try to get you back by any means necessary - even if that means pretending to accept what we did. I just -

R: i know how she works. I’m not going to let her weasel her way back in, don’t worry. I have no interest in (waves hand around) any of this. you know I never have.

F:...why did you tell Wik we’re still together?

R:...sorry. I shouldn’t have. I -

F: you wanted to show your mother the choices you made weren’t the wrong ones. I get it.

R: sorry. even now I…just don’t want to seem like a stupid child to her. Like everything I did - everything we did - was just on some hormone-driven whim. like we didnt agonise over it for years, knowing what we’d be giving up -

F: I’m ok with it, you know. …pretending. if it’s just to show her up, I’m ok with it.

R:...you’d do that? it would just be until we move on to the Capitol, but -

F: I can do it. if it’s just for a bit, and it’ll help you get back at your mother, then I can do it.

R:...thanks, Farrah. I owe you.

F: you do. …do you think your little stunt will help those idiotic boys out at all?

R: *snorts* there’s not much that some forced-proximity can’t solve.

(both look at the single bed in the room)

R: (cough) r-right, well, let’s see if my old clothes still fit, shall we? Hopefully they haven’t thrown those out, at least. this dinner is gonna be rough, i can already tell.

F: we’ll get through it, though.

R: of course we will. we always do.

K and s walking down hallway as bell rings.

S: how ridiculous do i look in this, be honest

K: (blushing) you look like a noble

S: trussed up in all this - i would hope only nobles wear this much jewelry -

K: (trussed-)

ree and farrah round the corner

R: looking good boys. scra, you look like a  noble

S: ive been told

R: let’s get some food and try to dodge the backhanded jibes from my family, shall we?

S: Ree, what exactly is going on here? did you…do something to make them angry?

R: ha - that’s literally the most basic way you could put it.

K: you ran away. to…Kooup? to look for the Crow King?

R: that sure was the outcome of everything.

S: what do you -

Wik: Young Miss, esteemed guests (ignores farrah) please be seated for dinner. your family awaits you.

(walk in to see rees parents and brothers standing by their chairs, all glaring at her)

R: (whispers) shit.

goes to take her places next to brother1, everyone else tentatively sits. Ky discretely shows scra where to sit (next to rees dad) scra gulps. everyone sits when her dad sits.

Reedad: Welcome to Vermillion Keep. I apologize for not welcoming you sooner, the Lady and I were detained. You have met my sons - Phillo, Uri and Adol. and i am told you have been travelling with our daughter, Reenara. So tell me, what brings a Crow such as yourself all the way out here, with such an…eclectic escort?

s: We - uh, I - have some business with the Council. We were just passing through when your sons rescued us from an ambush.

RD looks at brothers, eyebrow raised

Rb1: that band of thieves we’ve been playing with. Hunted them right into a clearing where they had these poor folks disarmed and at their mercy. We had them off running once again, when our dear, long-lost sister here showed up.

rb2: with an entourage. (raises eyebrow at farrah who glares back)

reemother: I’ll admit, we did not expect you to have the gall to step in our lands ever again, Reenara. (ree stiffens)

R: …i had not expected to either, mother.

Rb1: we were certainly surprised when we saw her. her…(eyes lock on farrah) and her companion.

(ree clenches fork)

RM: when Wik told us of your arrival, we had hoped you had grown out of that rebellious streak and returned to resume your duties…but I can see that was too much to hope for.

R$: that rebellious streak is my wife, and I’d appreciate it if you’d stop referring to her as if she werent currently sitting at this table.

S+K: (WIFE?????)