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BOOK 1
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ONYEANI URUM (BSC ENGLISH)
TABLE OF CONTENT
PROLOGUE
PAGE 3-4
DEDICATION
PAGE 5
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
PAGE 5
DRAMATIS PERSONA
PAGE 6-7
1
ACT 1
SCENE 1 PAGE
8-12
SCENE 2 PAGE
13-40
ACT 2
SCENE I PAGE
41-86
SCENE 2 PAGE
87-92
SCENE 3 PAGE
93-103
SCENE 4 PAGE
104
SCENE 5 PAGE
105-117
SCENE 6 PAGE
118- 124
SCENE 7 PAGE
125- 137
ACT 3
2
SCENE 1 PAGE
138-139
ACT 4
SCENE 1 PAGE
140-152
SCENE 2 PAGE
153-156
SCENE 3 PAGE
157
ACTS 5
SCENE 1 PAGE
158-160
SCENE 2 PAGE
161-191
ACTS 6
SCENE 1 PAGE
192- 225
ACTS 7
SCENE 1 PAGE
226-247
ACTS 8
SCENE 1 PAGE
248 – 268
ACTS 9
3
SCENE 1 PAGE
269-276
ACTS 10
SCENE 1 PAGE
277- 291
ACTS 11
SCENE 1 PAGE
292-301
SCENE 2 PAGE
302-304
SCENE 3 PAGE
305-314
ACTS 12
SCENE 1 PAGE
315-339
EPILOGUE PAGE
340-341
PROLOGUE
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Centuries until the entrance of light that banished it to free
men
From its strong holds and whims of personnel like Hashny
the daughter of Luneah.
As a story of conquest light showed its mastering fingers
subduing darkness and everything
It represents.
In this story, you will view the sovereignty of light over the
darkness of this world, and
No matter how strong darkness seems light will always
prevail.
In it you will see the same battle raging between good and
evil that grows across the globe today.
This very dramatic play comes with a revelation that puts a
question across, should men be free to make their own
Choice of belief or is it right for them to be enslaved to the
whims of evil, under
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The bondage of ruthless forces of darkness and to dark
belief?
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGEMNT
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
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Azariah, Nath, Jero, Puah, Mathias, Onan Zenatha =The
elders of the sect.
Ashthea= First queen and wife of king Derbe.
Hashny =Second queen and wife of king Derbe.
Derbe=king of Tyre
Hasha = Ashthea’s chief maid, but working for Hashny.
Tyree= The Patriarch of tyre
Luneah= The chief god of tyre.
Zonxi, Beliah, Zelzar and Belzar= the gods of the four kings,
subsequently the gods of tyre.
Ceramis= The Leader of the sisters’ cult.
Bukah=The god of tyree’s clan..
Emar= tyree’s only heir.
Buzu=tyree’s commander.
Messenger= messenger of the four kings.
King Maga, Afac, Stroyk, Slovok= the four kings.
Zokan and Akin= members of tyree’s clan.
Emprax, Zora, Sienna and Zophni=members of tyree’s
elders in council
Commander 1, 2,,3 & 4= Military Commanders of the four
kings.
The voice= heenu
Bentan= Hashny’s secret lover.
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Senior and Ay= The witches.
Buba, Anathol, Pithron, = Remnant of the survivors of the
Sorek leaders from the blasts later eliminated by Hashny.
Citizen 1, 2 & 3= Citizens of tyre who listened to Ashthea
speak of heenu.
Donai= Ashthea’s Royal cook.
Lukrenea= Ashthea’s cousin.
Woman 1, 2 &3 The Three Queens and friends of Ashthea.
ACT 1
SCENE 1
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Scene opens at Kidro River in Igaza.
They take her further into the river where she kneels as
they surround her, ready to immerse her into the water.
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For centuries there had been only little known of this
belief, because the brotherhood lived a life of seclusion.
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This is as a result of unification of four kingdoms with a
clan to form a sovereign nation call tyre.
Sorek as old as tyre, rooted in its evil cults, has gained 98%
influential control of the hearts and soul of the world.
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Queen Hashny the second wife to king Derbe of Tyre is the
most recognized and dreaded evil personality in the whole
of Tyre, in all the cults and in the entire world as the
daughter of Luneah, and second in command to Ceramis.
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These kings had been waging war with each other over
ancestral claims of this land for centuries and none has
ever succeeded to defeat the others.
Five years later while on the hill of Val toward the evening,
tyree is sacrificing to his god (Bukah).
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handsome man in his early 30’s dressed in white robe, who
introduces himself as Luneah, the god of gods.
SCENE 2
Luneah
Tyree, Tyree.
Tyree
(Terribly afraid}
Luneah
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I watched over you and protected you when you rode your
first horse
Tyree
What…?
Luneah
Tyree
god of gods?
Luneah
15
Tyree
Luneah
Giver of life.
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Tyree
Luneah
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Nevertheless, I have come to reveal myself to the world for
who really I am,
Tyree
Use me?
I don’t understand.
Luneah
Are you aware that every demi god was once a human until
they ascended to the realm of the gods?
Human weakness.
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They believe in themselves and in their calling.
Tyree
Luneah
Luneah
Arise tyree.
Luneah
King Afac, King Stroyk, King Maga and King Slovok, whose
lands border on its four corners with orphir trapped in the
middle of their strives.
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Tyree
Luneah
They are the most dreaded of all the kings of the earth.
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the diamonds and the crude oil are all mine.
I made the fishes in the water and I made the cows in the
field.
Tyree
Luneah
Tyree
But I don’t.
Luneah
You will.
Tyree
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Those kings... the fame of their cruelty spreads across the
earth.
Luneah
Tyree
What?!
Luneah
Tyree
(Panicking)
Luneah
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If you do, then you will crush them and all their might with
just a handful of your men.
Tyree
Luneah
I will make you a terror that strikes fear into the minds and
I will turn these handful men with you into the most
dreaded legion the world has ever known.
greater than any king that ever walked the earth, greater
than those four kings.
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And I will give you the entire wealth that lies beneath this
land and in its seas.
I will put the four kings and their nations into your hand
and you shall unite them as one kingdom, with you as the
king.
Tyree
(Laughs)
Hahahahah!!!
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They are only three hundred thousand of us including
women and children.
Luneah
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The fire shall fill every hearts with love and fear for
Luneah.
And I will make you great in all the earth, so that as your
greatness spreads
Look!!
Tyree
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What must I do to possess these my lord?
Luneah
Both you and your people shall worship me, your one and
only sovereign master and god, Luneah himself.
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Your condition shall be, they must accept your own
religion and abandon theirs.
Slay them by the sword and burn down their cities, so that
others will hear and tremble before you. You will establish
Tyree
Another? Another?!
There is no other.
For who else could, but bear such power and glory seen in
the mirror of tomorrow, if not this Tyree in person and not
only in name?
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Luneah
Tyree
A sacrifice?
(chuckles)
Is that all?
Luneah
Tyree
Tell me,
Who will but see this kind of future and not be moved to
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I could offer a sacrifice of a hundred bulls, just to become
the person I saw in that vision.
Luneah
I own all the bulls in the entire world and I can give any
number of it to anybody I choose.
I need only one thing that is worth more to me than all the
gold and diamonds in the world.
Tyree
What is it then?
Luneah
Tyree
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What?!!
My only son?
Luneah
Tyree
(Laughing)
(Continues laughing)
Luneah
It will cost you the most precious thing in this life for you
to have the entire world in your palms.
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Behold! A great future lies in front of you.
The four kings will soon come. What are you going to do?
Tyree
Luneah
(Interrupts)
Even if it cost him the very precious life of his son, his only
son.
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(Calls him king, just to arouse his interest}
Tyree
If the noble are thus yoked before they ever become kings,
Then they must have first sold out their hearts and peace.
They are but kings in yokes and kings with no heart to love.
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If a father could look into the eyes of his son in the night
and tell
him how much he loves him, only to cut his throat in the
Merciless! Barbaric!!
Luneah
They undo every weak spot in them so that it will not deter
them from climbing unto greatness.
This is the price you must pay to achieve your own destiny.
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Tyree can always be a father to many sons.
Tyree
Luneah
38
After this sacrifice, the next things to follow will be
instructions and ordinances.
Tyree
Luneah
Do it, and the blood of your son shall be the seal of our
everlasting covenant.
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(Tyree didn’t take note of the last words of Luneah. He is
still overwhelmed with
Tyree
I want it my lord!!
Luneah
Tyree
Ask me for any other thing and I will gladly sacrifice it.
Luneah
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But if Tyree offered his blood for this course, who then
would inherit this great future?
“If another does bear this name among men or among the
gods,
Only Tyree in person and not in name only can bear such
power and glory.
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Tyree
Luneah
Just?
She will give you another son, and afterwards she will be
the first priestess of Sorek religion.
Tyree
I can’t do it!
42
SCENE FADES
ACTS 2
SCENE 1
BUZU
Messenger
43
BUZU
Messenger
I seek for the great Tyree, who is indeed the tallest among
his people.
And we are aware of how well you have thrived in this land
without paying
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We took time to know as well the names of his council
members and warriors Emprax, sienna, you buzu...
(Enters Tyree)
Tyree
Messenger
Tyree
Messenger
No.
45
I am commanded thus to read it in the hearing of your
people.
Tyree
MESSENGER
For they bid me to write and read their words in your own
Pontiac tongue.
Thus the four kings have written with one pen on one
scroll and with one voice, saying,
Is he wise or stupid?
Whatever god he prays to, let him pray harder because the
lions are awake.
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A big ram to replace a simple pigeon!
Oh! Indeed a mortal has just blessed and enriched the belly
of the gods.
Those are the words of would be, new masters after today.
Or you can decide to wait here while they visit you with
death.
The Clan
Zokan
49
Akin
Zokan
We may have hid our true identity from other clans and
may have lost or forgotten it.
Cowards that can not protect their father’s name, nor the
legends they
Live behind.
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Akin
(Laughs scornfully)
Listening to you all I could hear are the fairies from the
fairy and folk tales they told us of the legendaries of their
own fathers taken better part of your mind. It has even
given you a castle in the air mindset.
When at the end you will be killed, and the same family
you fought to protect still goes into the slavery?
All men may not be brave, however all men are not
cowards.
the warrior that lives to tell the story of the fallen ones is
better than the warrior that lies beneath his feet and lay
forever silent and inactive in the bosom of death.
Zokan
53
There is no atom of nobility in you, yet your father and his
father were all noble patriarchs, brave men that took the
lions by the jaws.
Akin
Zokan
He was right.
Akin
54
Is it not better to live to see a day of freedom than to lay
hopeless,
Dose the dead live to see the present and future of those
they live behind?
Can they rise from the grave were in we left them to fight
for us?
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However we decide, out of two one will happen today, if
we surrender we will be their slaves, naked and devoured,
yet live in hope which by the god will not fail us. But if we
refused, we will
Hence we will only bleed to enrich the more this very land.
Zokan
You fool!
Akin
56
The honours of my fathers and their names so honourable
won’t bring me an hair of salvation in this predicament,
Zokan.
Zokan
You.....
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in the hearing of the people that the four kings are
marching with their armies in countless numbers from the
north, south, east and west to attack them.
Emprax
Countless armies?
Buzu
Run to where?
We must do something!
Tyree
Emprax
Buzu
Zora
Tyree
59
What I mean is that there is nothing any of you can do
about this situation.
Buzu
Tyree
Buzu
May our ancestors forbid! The staff of the head of the clan
can not be broken.
Tyree
60
Should I preserve my heart and watch an entire generation
being wiped off?
Emprax
Tyree
That is my dilemma.
Emprax
Zora
For the love for Tyree and for the clan, you can volunteer
Emprax
61
Zora, we are trying to find solution to our present
predicament, and you are joking about it?
Zora
You have five boys; Tyree has only one, far younger than
your five grownups.
But you have five. If you lose one you will still have four.
Emprax
Sienna
Emprax, Emprax.
62
Unease lies the head that wears the crown.
Emprax
Zora
Emar
(Speaks up)
63
Just as the deity said it would happen, the four kings are
here.
Tyree
Emar...
Emar
Tyree
Emar
64
Father, they could enslave my sister and send her to
prostitution to enrich themselves.
Tyree
Emar
Tyree
Emar
65
I do father.
Tyree
What?
Emar
66
I have accepted it.
Zora
He revealed it to you?
Emar
Yes
Tyree
Emar
The coming of the kings simply proved his words are true.
Look at their faces, my father. The tears and the agony they
are going through.
67
Is it the agonizing fear of death piercing their hearts and
bones like fiery dagger?
Or the fact they may not see this world again, if we don’t do
this?
Let my death unite them all under one throne, under you,
father.
The lips of posterity shall ever sing of it, and the gods shall
crown me a deity among their numbers.
Tyree
Emar
The very mortal that can neither mould life nor has power
to give it; yet, why would they be begged to spare lives?
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It is the gods that have the power to give it and to take it
away, not men!
I will be the sacrifice, the bleeding ram that will save you!
Let my blood give you the great future promised you and
your children.
However, I do this for love, keep the same love among you
and remember this day as the day of Lupridoth.
70
This means, the day of the greatest sacrifice and the day we
found our nation.
Tyree
(Sobbing)
My son! O my son!!
Emar
Tyree
I should be the one to die, while you live and take care of
your sister.
Emar
71
Have you forgotten our faith, father?
If I die this way, the gods will be pleased with my soul and
welcome me in paradise.
Tyree
Emar
Come, father.
72
Val and do what we must so that the great god can be
faithful to his promises.
Tyree
(Sobs)
Emar
Buzu
Tyree, the armies have been sighted from the top of the
mountains!
73
Whatever has to be done should be done now.
Tyree
Emar
There is a better hope for the dead than for the living.
Tyree
Emar
74
(They hug)
Tyree
Buzu, you will command the men, while my son and I head
for the hill;
Buzu
Tyree
Buzu
So be it.
For your words today I feel like I can prevail upon any
mountain and devour any beast.
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And for your courage, I will forever worship your name
engrave boldly on the plates of my heart.
Emar
Buzu
So be it.
(Salutes Emar)
The clan
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Buzu
(Buzu exits with all the men of the clan. Three of the elders,
led by Zophni, approach Tyree with three young men)
Zophni
Tyree
Zophni
Tyree, Tyree.
77
Zora, Sienna and I cannot watch you bear this burden of
grief alone.
We will sorrow and bear the loss with you and enjoy its
glory with you.
Tyree
78
Surely, I cannot accept that, great and noble elders of my
council.
Why?
This deed requires only the blood of one and not four.
Zophni
Tyree
But, what fault of mine is the cause for you to love me thus,
as to put me into everlasting debt?
Zora
80
The same it demands of you to the people.
Sienna
81
Tyree
These boys are going to die; they won’t come back to you
again.
Zophni
Of course, we know.
Tyree
Please let me talk you out of this, the instruction says only
Emar my son, is the sacrifice.
Your sons are not, so let that suffice and take them back
home.
Zora
Boy 1
Sir, we will rather die with our best friend than anywhere
else.
Emar
Boy 2
Emar, you will not die alone and leave us in this forsaken
world.
Boy 3
83
Hence, if the four of us will not live together in this world,
then we will die together and live together
For the same love, we, the friends of the only beloved son
will die with him.
Do not mourn for us, o great Tyree, for in death we will live
together in eternity.
84
Today, we will make a perfect history of genuine love
between friends.
Tyree
Boy 2
Emar
85
(The boys holds hands walking together ahead to the hill,
as Tyree stands, watching them amazed at such courage.)
Zophni
Tyree
Zora
86
Zophni
Tyree
87
Your descendants shall be custodians of this religion and
the heads of its branches.
(Then together they climb the hill and the sacrifice takes
place.}
SCENE FADES
SCENE 2
The sight inspires and flames up his men to fight till death
and they chant accordingly.)
88
Men
Yeeee!!!
Tyree
Remember Eron!!
Men
Eron!!
Tyree
Remember Emar!
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Men
Emar!!
Tyree
They
They are strong and powerful; even the earth shakes at the
sight of their
We won’t deny that our feet are shaking and our joints are
losing their place for fear.
90
But they are also humans!
Men
Yes!!
Tyree
91
Our confidence is in the blood of the sacrifice!
Unite this land and the four nations into one kingdom.
Men
Tyree
This entire region shall become Tyre, and you are the
Tyreans!
Are yours!!
92
Your names engrave in every book, of the kingdom of tyre!!
Luneah is Bukah!
Men
Ye!! Ye!!!
Tyree
Now attack!
Buzu
93
Men
Yeeee!!!
(The few men of Tyre rush into the battlefield to face and
defeat
SCENE FADES
SCENE 3
(On the other side of the kings. The kings positioned on top
of a hill sitting on their horses’ back. While their armies are
positioned innumerable at the foot of the hill)
King Stroyk
King Afac
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King Maga
King Slovok
King Maga
Commanders!
Commanders
Your majesties.
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King Slovok
Are we understood?
Commander 1
Yes sire
King Stroyk
96
King Afac
Look, they are but a pity sight, too small for many of us.
King Maga
Commanders
At once sires.
King Afac
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King Stroyk
Bed?
King Afac
Yes, I left this lovely deer lying on the bed waiting for me.
There are yet sweet parts of her sexy and sumptuous body
I haven’t enjoyed. I left them untouched last night.
King Maga
When you have enslaved them you will have more than
enough deer for your sexual fantasies.
98
King Afac
King Maga
What is happening?
(Enters commander 2}
King Maga
Commander 2
99
Sire, the enemy’s allies has joined them to fight us and they
are too many, and so fierce.
King Maga
Fierce?
What allies?
King Afac
King Slovok
100
It is just the
Maga king
Commander 2
But…. But sires there were allies with them fighting with
swords in both hands, too many to be counted.
King Afac
101
I think this fellow is drunk.
King Slovok
Commander 2
Sire, the men marched out sober than the wakening of the
day.
But….
I don’t get it; I don’t know why we are not seeing those
allies from here.
Sire if you get down there you will see them, fighting
bravely.
102
King Maga
Say it!
Commander 2
King Maga
Commander 2
King Maga
What?!!
Commander 2
I am stupid.
103
King Maga
Good,
Now get down there and crush them, unleash the whole
force on them!
Commander 2
Yes sire
(Commander exits}
King Maga
Allies indeed.
King Afac
King Maga
104
Though, he is a good commander.
King Slovok
SCENE 4
Tyree
Take that!
(Slain an enemy}
Enemy
Ahhhhh!
(Slain}
105
Tyree
(Slays another}
Enemy
SCENE 5
King Afac
King Stroyk
King Afac
More men?
All of them are down there o king, have you forgotten maga
ordered for the whole army to be unleashed?
106
King Stroyk
What?!
King Slovok
How possible….uh!
107
(Enters Commanders 3 and 4}
Commanders
Sires!
King Maga
King Afac
King Maga
Commander3
King Afac
King Stroyk
108
The commanders fallen?
Commander 4
They look weak and few, but they are far stronger and
abler in the battle field.
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My eyes have never seen such a mystery before.
Commander 4
So we advise that you leave this place right now and flee to
your allies.
King Afac
Allies?
King Stroyk
Commander 3
King Stroyk
110
Out of eight million men?
King Maga
Commander 3
Sire,
If you doubt you can go down and see things for yourself.
King Maga
Go down where?
Commander 4
111
It was he that’s so acclaimed and proven to have
singlehandedly taken down legions on different occasions,
in his time.
Legend says he was taken by the gods and sits beside them
as the god of war.
King Slovok
Commander 4
Not only they worship him sire, but they are descendants
of this awesome and powerful deity.
King Afac
112
Eron, Bukah?
King Stroyk
King Afac
King Maga
King Afac
114
What could be worst than this doom staring at us now?
King Slovok
Commander 4
King Maga
Another god?
115
Commander 4
King Maga
Commander 4
King Maga
116
And that is what makes his history outstanding.
King Afac
King Stroyk
They can……
King Afac
If the gods you talk of has any chance of helping us, now
would have been the right time, and the event would have
been otherwise.
117
But no, they sit in luxuries, amusing themselves gaming
and playing chase with our follies and ignorance and at the
end, the
King Maga
King Afac
118
Why wouldn’t they be? They write their own scripts and
we are simply playing the role they give us, and from the
above they determine the outcome of our actions.
They will always win! And the senior amongst them will
always take the praise!!
King Stroyk
What do we do now?
(Silence}
SCENE FADES
SCENE 6
119
Tyree
Buzu!
Buzu
Sir!
Tyree
Buzu
120
Tyree
Buzu
(Buzu exits)
Tyree
(Aside)
121
Who would have believed this venture with Luneah could
be possible.
(Flashback)
Tyree
Luneah
122
(The reality of this knowledge dawns on tyree)
They are the most dreaded of all the kings of the earth.
I made the fishes in the water and I made the cows in the
field.
Luneah
I will make you a terror that strikes fear into the minds and
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I will turn this handful of men with you into the most
dreaded legion the world has ever known.
greater than any king that ever walked the earth, greater
than those four kings.
And I will give you the entire wealth that lies beneath this
land and in its seas.
I will put the four kings and their nations into your hand
and you shall unite them as one kingdom, with you as the
king.
Emar! It is done!!
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I didn’t cut you once only to cut you again a thousand
times.
Look down from the seat of the gods above and behold the
strength of your blood as it ignites the blood of eron in
every one of the infants you so much loved and died for.
For your blood that was shed and for the love I loved you
my throne shall be named, Emar, because you will always
live in my heart.
For Emar!!
Men
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For men!!!
SCENE FADES
SCENE 7
King Afac
What do we do?
King Slovok
(Laments)
Why? Why?
King Afac
King Slovok, you can see that the sky bear no answer to
that
Question, not that they bear any grudge against us, but
because the
King Stroyk
King Slovok
127
I wonder why I listened to you fools to embark on this
fruitless battle!
King Stroyk
So….so….
King Slovok
128
Take possession of orphir?
King Maga
To live.
King Afac
(Sigh)
Good kings what you said is not true about Maga and I.
129
If we stay here and cast blames we won’t live to amend.
Commander 3
Sires!
Sires!!
King Maga
What commander?!
Commander3
Flee!
Flee sires!!
Flee!!!
Commander 4
There is no safe place for you here anymore.
The lines are finally broken.
And the enemies are almost at the top and surrounding the
hill.
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We will see how long we can hold them at the top so you
can
Flee to a distance.
(Suddenly a fiery light blaze across the sky)
King Maga
What was that?!
King Slovok
It flashed like a blazing shooting star!
Where from it came or went, I don’t know.
Suddenly it appeared and suddenly it vanished.
King Maga
That’s strange. It’s a bad omen….
King Stroyk
What was it then?!
Why did such omen appear on such day as this, uh,
commander?
Commander
Your majesty I do not know, but are you going to stand
here and wonder about a mystery that appeared in the sky,
shouldn’t you be saving your own lives?
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Let the mystery alone and save your own lives first, only
then you can wonder about the omen.
Flee my lords, flee!
(Mounting on top of their horses)
King Slovok
Look! Smoke, king Stroyk is that not…..?
King Stroyk
That is my kingdom burning!
My children, my wives.
Look, king Slovok, your kingdom is also on fire.
King Slovok
O Noooo!!
What is this?
How can only few armed men be so disastrous?
Look! King Maga, your land is in flames as well.
King Maga
I can hear my children burning, crying to me for help.
My kingdom, my vast glory! all destroyed.
There is nowhere to flee to.
132
King Afac
Then let us flee to my kingdom while we still have the
chance.
King Maga
Are you sure they don’t have allies fighting with them?
How many of them are fighting?
How and when did they get into our kingdoms?
If they can get to our lands, afac’s kingdom is not safe for
us.
They will as well get there.
King Slovok
What do you suggest?
Commander 3
You do not have the time sires.
Flee to wherever you can.
The men are abandoning the ranks and surrendering to the
enemies.
We will allow our men here to surrender once we are sure
you are safely out of sight.
133
King Stroyk
I flee!
(They flee}
Zokan
Buzu
Kingdoms and we shall forge them into one crown for one
head.
(Zokan exit}
Akin
134
(Looking bloody Calling from a point}
Buzu!
Buzu
How come?!
Akin
Some said they saw fire fell from the sky to set them
ablaze!
Buzu
135
Surely the kings are not fleeing to their lands!!
Luneah be praised!
(The commander4 and the few men with him engage with
tyree’s men in a fierce fight so that the kings can flee to a
distance)
Commander3
Flee my kings!
Don’t …..!
O Noooo!! King Afac and king Slovok have fallen, slain and
beheaded.
Commander 4
Withdrew!
137
(Commanders draw closer to Buzu}
Commander 3
(So the war end as tyree’s men cheers and escorts the
commanders and their men down to
Tyree becomes the king of the four united nations with his
clan and named it the
138
Kingdom of tyre, as was agreed they become the Sorekites,
worshippers of Luneah.
SCENE FADES
ACTS 3
SCENE 1
Tyree
139
Behold!
See with your eyes and testify that I say the truth and
Luneah
Look, the boy bears the same tribal mark I gave my Emar.
See it
When the people see it, in awe and wonder they bow on
their knees praising Luneah}
Behold!
The Clan
140
Hail Emar!
Hail Emar!!
SCENE FADES
ACTS 4
SCENE 1
AZARIA
(The eldest}
141
To enter into covenant with
our god heenu and to belong to the
brotherhood of the sect?
This is going to be a
declaration of war between light
and darkness.
Ashthea
142
me burns a hunger, a hunger for a
great light.
143
beyond the shores of the land of
Luneah.
AZARIAH
ASHTHEA
144
same east star that set over a
stable identifying where the truth
was born.
145
So I accept to become a sect
and a worshipper of eloheenu.
AZARIA
So be it.
The king of all gods, and the ruler of the kingdoms of men.
ASHTHEA
146
I felt…. This strong surge of energy going through every
fiber of my being.
In all that, I saw myself lifted high above the earth to the
sky of brilliance light and rainbows.
And a figure stood before me, from whom all glory and the
glorious light emanate.
Azariah
Ashthea
Love you”
147
Azariah
A child?
Ashthea
Azariah
Ashthea
NATH
148
He revealed himself to you so that you will have proof of
his reality.
And you are hence a true sect where our god inhabits.
JERO
PUAH
149
We are mandated by the divine and holy one to embark on
a quest for the conversion of tyre into a land of the illumine
light that frees men from bondage of darkness.
MATHIAS
150
The kingdom of their gods, with all the might of the cults of
Sorek and the very dark power that grips it in darkness
shall tumble down their weight on you.
You shall face such great troubles coming from the forces
that hold that land captive.
But after the storms then shall come the victory, for light
must conquer darkness.
151
In their hearts is the burning hunger for the truth that
comes from the teachings of the sect.
Heenu have seen those hearts and has vowed to save them.
That is why you must not keep silent; speak the gospel of
heenu.
ONAN
Your victory over them has already been declared and you
are made certain to succeed.
For each step they take will only announce your victory
and glory, and proved you untouchable and indestructible.
ZENATHA
152
AZARIA
Our god heenu will protect and fight for you, himself.
Even though a sword shall pierce your heart at the end but
you shall ascend to him.
Though they call you barren, a child from your womb shall
solidify the hand of sect upon the world.
153
Freedom shall be born into the world, and the free gift and
blessings of heenu shall spread
SCENE FADES
SCENE 2
AZARIAH
154
Queen Ashthea by the favor of our god we commission you
a minister of our god to go make a way for the entrance of
the light of our god into the land of tyre.
155
May his power go with you and may he go with you in
person………
All
His eternal light is beyond the mind and the heart can
comprehend.
156
Great is our god!
His light is the eternal light of freedom, peace, joy and love!
His light is the truth that brings eternal life into our eternal
soul and spirit.
VOICE
Go back to tyre!
157
Do not fear I will be with you.
I will deal with all those evil powers of Sorek and bring
them on their knees.
SCENE FADES
SCENE 3
158
Terrible thunder blasts invades a set of Sorekites in their
sacred grounds. 15 most powerful leaders of this set were
killed by the blasts while the rest scatters as they run for
their lives. The next thing that follows was the destruction
of everything in that ground by the blasts. Certain tombs
are wrecked apart by the blasts, souls imprisoned are
freed.
The forces that stand watching over the cell are struck
dead by the blasts.
SCENE FADES
ACTS 5
SCENE 1
159
In the course of the same incidences.
Hashny
Nooooooooo!!!
No, no!
160
Hashny
What?!
What happened?
(Sobs)
Bentan bent….an
(Sobbing)
Struck too.
161
Oh! Lune…ah!
Whooo….?
(Tears and weeping could not let her finish her statement)
Bentan My love.
Bentaaaan!
SCENE FADES
SCENE 2
FLASHBACK
162
Hashny in a garden with Bentan. A Sorek and a commander
of the army of tyre.
Bentan
Hashny
Bentan
You are his wife and what we are doing is sin before law
and the gods.
Hashny
163
The gods?
164
A flame of natural need burns in my body and soul and he
shots me out to burn to ashes.
Oh, but the gods sent you to my rescue, and I fell deep in
love with you.
Bentan
Me, what am I?
Hashny
165
Bentan
Hashny......
Hashny
Shihhhh.
Bentan
Hashny
166
And who cares about that? Presly is my son, he has no
issue with us. As a matter of fact he has given us his
blessings.
Bentan
Hashny
Bentan
Ever seen.
167
As you said, which I know, he has this indifference attitude
toward you.
You can’t deny that he once loved you. Once there is that
love it will always be there, no matter what Love is eternal.
He is aware.
Hashny
168
He is aware of nothing.
Bentan
Hashny
Not even emnon and his regular gossips can stop us.
He uses his gossips for a favor from the king, but I can
handle him.
King’s back.
169
Am I not Hashny?
Bentan
Hashny
But I am Luneah.
(Hugging)
Bentan
170
Hashny
Bentan
Hashny
Bentan, Bentan!!
(Sobbing)
(Sobbing)
171
(Sobbing continues as she buries her face inside the pillow
weeping .suddenly sobbing ceased she starts lifting
gradually veiled with her long hairs)
Hashny
What is happening?
Free by who?
172
(Moves herself backward to figure out the implication of
the event}
What is this?
Blooooood!!
My, my
(Sobbing)
Own, Blooooood!
Ahhhhh!!
173
(Crying in pains)
(Pain increases)
Ahhhhh!
174
What?
Someone..!
Helppp meee.
Guaaardds!!!
If I stay here whoever that has done this will come and
{Someone knocks}
175
Indeed they have seen my predicaments and sent me help.
Hashny
Help me.
(Very weak)
Help me.
(The person’s shadow fades off. Once the person exits she
starts regaining strength. Sits up, looking at herself and can
not believe what is happening to her}.
176
Shall I go to the world below without a fight, without
seeing the face of my butcher?
(Looks up to speak}
For l, the daughter of Luneah will never and does not bow
to any man,
Someone passed.
177
Uh…! Someone passed again.
Who is it?
Hashny
Silent! Away!!
178
You are only but lost souls while I am the daughter of
Luneah.
I am the evil!
179
I am the only wolf that walks under the dazzling shade of
the moon in the most silent and dreaded forest of
darkness.
If you be a god oh, you went too far to take what is most
precious to me.
And when I do, where in this universe will you hide from
me?
I will……
Drink your blood and smoke your soul with your skull!!
180
Who is it that will not fear the night when it comes?
Think not that Hashny will fear you that has no face to
show.
Death and I were born of the same mother and I its senior.
181
(Silence)
Voice
Hashny
182
(Pause for a while. Stands up with the moral to speak)
The gods that hide behind the unseen to fight are called the
coward gods.
Why? Why struck me? What conflict do you seek with me?
(Silence)
Voice
183
Hashny
(Silence)
(Silence)
(The pains returns again more painful than ever. She falls
to the ground agonizing, groaning, wriggling and sobbing)
184
Voice
Your co wife.
Hashny
Ashshshshshs...theaaa?
Voice
Hashny
She is my captive!
Voice
No more.
She is now free, free from your evil web and chains.
185
Hence, she bears my seal of covenant which makes her,
untouchable.
Hashny
186
Voice
In the morning, in the noon and in the night, over and over
until you learn two things: 1. that no mortal has such right
to break the spirit of others to enslave them.
Hashny
Your power?!!
187
He alone is supreme!
Voice
Hashny
Hiding?
188
When Luneah plays, be ready to dance the music of the
gods.
(No response)
Voice
So be it
Hashny
Voice
I am who I am.
The all in all, through all, with all and for all.
What kind of god that hides to fight and runs when the
fight starts?
Ashtheaaa! Ashteaaaa!!
You are the reason for this; I will make life miserable for
you in this land.
190
I will….
Guard
Your majesty!
Hashny
Guard
Hashny
Now?
My voice has been high all night, and it is now you just
heard it?
Guard
191
Since the first cock crow my queen.
Hashny
The gods sent you to help me, but you simply walked away.
Guard
Arrrrrrgh!! Arrrrrrgh!!!
(He dies)
Hashny
You didn’t come when I needed help; you only came after I
have helped myself.
Ashthea, Ashthea!!
192
Your cock just crow, but expect my owl to hoot.
SCENE FADES
ACTS 6
SCENE 1
193
Enters Hashny in a black gown that has a scalp with which
she covers her head. Following her behind are five huge
strong looking weird and armed inhuman creatures}
Buba
Hashny
Peace?
194
Even the peace we buried our ancestors with within their
the air crying “Let not a soul rest, eat or drink until peace is
For its peace is stolen from your hearts and from the
resting place
Of your ancestors.
Buba
You have come to talk about the attack yesterday, and the
voice that you encountered.
Haven’t you?
195
Hashny
How come I saw her cell flown open and her soul
liberated.
196
If you had not failed I would not have been feeling this
way.
Buba
Hashny
Buba
Don’t take too much pride in the fact you are the daughter
of Luneah to insult and address this authority any how.
197
However, you should respect the fact that each of us
represents heads of families of our ancestors who
voluntarily gave their sons as sacrifice that laid the
foundation for all the cults, of which you go about flouting
yourself as the daughter of Luneah.
The great price they paid with king Tyree is the privilege
you enjoy insulting us.
Hashny
198
Now tell me why you failed me else, I promise that I will
shut down this coven and turn it into a square for fox and
jackals.
Buba
Hashny
Buba
Hashny
199
Buba
Hashny
You know it too well that no seed of tyre can worship any
other god except Luneah.
Buba
Hashny
Buba
200
Hashny
Not even the smallest ant can ever dig sand hole out of
Luneah’s prison for he never let his prisoners taste the ray
light of freedom!
Buba
Hashny
Buba
201
Hashny
Some fools, mostly dirty old fools that worships a dead god.
Buba
Hashny
202
That’s what they want people to believe that he ascended
exectra and exectra.
Buba
Hashny
203
Hashny
Buba
Hashny
(chuckles)
204
To establish such an insult in the domain of Luneah?
Buba
Hashny
Buba
205
Hashny
Buba
Not that I will not, but I can’t I...I do not have the power to
do it.
Hashny
Buba
Their god….
Hashny
What god!!
206
So which of the gods that am not familiar and that do not
fear and do my wish?
Buba
Hashny
I seek to kill that so called god that defies the Luneah, the
father of all gods.
Buba
207
Hashny
Buba
Hashny
His voice?
208
Whose voice are you talking about?
Buba
Hashny
209
Luneah commands we stand against this assault!
Buba
(Aside)
(Cuts off from Aside)We all know the source of it, but how
do you fight it?
Hashny
You have served Luneah all your life as you said, yet you
are talking rubbish.
210
I won’t report you to either ceramis or Luneah, but I hope
you behave like the eron you are.
Buba
(Soliloquy)
Why can’t she handle her by herself she is within her grasp,
in the palace?
Hashny
211
to destroy the sacrifice that have made tyre and Sorek
great for hundreds of years.
Anathol
(Seeing a vision}
Pithron
A male child
Hashny
Buba
Hashny
212
I can cut off your tongue for the rubbish you voiced out.
Buba
I haven’t, but the truth remains that our spell over her is
been broken,
Hashny
Buba
213
that some gods are more of warriors and more powerful
than others.
Hashny
(Released him}
Pithron
Hashny
Pithron
Your majesty!
Anathol
214
The queen of tyre should not threaten
Hashny
Anathol
215
But you must realize and respect the fact that we too are
equally the powers and forces of the night and right now
you are in our domain.
Hashny
Really?
And I hold the power of the very land on which you stand
and I can squash you in my hand.
Hashny
(Turns to Buba}
Buba
216
How?! How am I going to do that?
She is hidden away from all eyes and no matter how deep I
look I can’t find her.
She is gone!
Hashny
Have you lost as well along with your powers all your
wisdom and senses?
Pithron
This god is stronger than metal, hotter than fire and brings
death.
217
He is totally all around her, leaving no trace for a space to
get closer to touch her.
Hashny
All you have to do is to snap your finger and life will just be
snatched of a soul.
218
You are all leaders of Sorek, aren’t you?
Buba.
219
Power that clothes her like fire.
Hashny
That is no excuse.
You are becoming too weak and too easy to give up!
You are just afraid; fear has taken over your senses and
replaces those luneah’s stuff that was in you with female
weaknesses.
For that cause you now complain like children afraid of the
dark and making excuses like failures.
We are whom we say we are, and the world knows it, all
the powers in the
221
None has ever survived the wrath of our god and master
Luneah,
Anathol
Hashny
Buba
Hashny
222
Buba
Hashny
Buba
Hashny
Pithron
Hashny
223
We have taken gods, alters, shrines, covens and temples
captive.
Buba
Hashny
Buba
Hashny
224
I too I am very sorry. Accept my sympathy.
Buba
Hashny
Buba
Hashny
If he can?
What an insult?
A blaspheme!
225
Listen to me you old fool; you will try again and again until
she’s dead.
Buba
Hashny
A general that lives through the battle while his men lies
dead in the field of slaughter lives only in shame.
The best thing for him is to use his sword to find his
entrails.
226
That wrath you speak of is no match to the anger of
Luneah if it visits you, and you know that.
Buba
Hashny
Buba
227
I see no glory in this death, in the battle you know you can
never win.
The voice that warned you was clear and that was her god
and I heard everything he told you.
Hashny
SCENE FADES
ACTS 7
SCENE 1
228
At the bank of the sea of suvenus, the sea raging with
waves and blasts.
Ay
(Soliloquy)
229
I have never seen a thing like before in my life.
Senior
Ay, ay.
Ay!!
Ay
Senior, I …. I …
Senior
What is this?
230
If we don’t get back to our bodies before dawn we will be
trapped for ever and you know that.
Ay
Senior
What of it?
Ay
Senior
I know.
231
You know I was there I saw it all.
Ay
What?!
Senior
Ay
Senior
That tyre could soon fall into the hands of the unknown,
232
Ay
What?
What is it?
Senior
The prophessssy
Ay
Senior
Yes, but did you notice that our great mother of the night,
Ceramis did not take her seat during the meeting?
Ay
233
Yes, yes and I wondered why?
Senior
Ay
To the prophecy?
Senior
(Sobbing)
Ay
234
I don’t get it. I don’t get it.
Ahhhhh!!!
235
(Bit her tongue with her sharp teeth and cursed herself in
pains)
Senior
Ay
236
Oh, my ignorance and foolishness misleads me.
Senior
Fool!
Anyway, the worst of it all is that she couldn’t take her seat
again.
Ay
But…
Senior
237
We must embark now on our mission to provide blood for
the next meeting.
Soon the objects will start waking up and we will miss the
supply.
Ay
Senior…..
Senior
Did you know that at the next meeting, all the would be
appointed spiritual heads of sorek shall meet with the
sisters to discuss the prophecy tiatia read?
Ay
Senior
Ay
Aw! Senior
Senior
Ay
239
Senior
All the sisters saw her action as an insult to our cult and
authority.
Ay
Senior
240
Never!
Ay
Senior
It was almost like she was human, but no; she was a spirit
being, make no mistake about that.
241
Until she decided to change mode of operation by
possessing humans instead to function through them.
Ay
Senior
Ay
But… why?
Senior
242
Young fool!
For it could ruin the faith of our junior members and even
ruin the faith of our cult.
Come on I dare not say more, but if you must and you are
allowed to attend the meeting you will hear it all.
Ay
You know I can never step foot into that meeting if I value
my life very well.
Senior
Ooooh!
(Tense)
Ay
Senior
(A cock crows}
244
Listen, listen, the cock crows that would be the second time
it has crowed.
The fourth time will mean the next one hour people will
start waking up.
Ay
I got the miners too drunk two hours ago with sleeping
portion,
And they are not going to wake up till the clock click seven
in the morning.
Senior
It is a lie witch!
(Excited}
245
Ay
Yes I did
Senior
Ay
At least wise and smart as you can now say, so what did
Miranda say?
Senior
She saw a huge fire, as tall as the height of man 6 to7ft tall
descended on the great throne of ceramis. The fire was
terrible, consuming and unapproachable.
246
The fire reduced the power and authority of ceramis to
ashes.
Ay
No more?
Senior
Senior
Ay
Senior
247
The glory of ceramis turned to ashes.
Ay
Fire?
Ay
Is it?
Senior
248
Ay
Senior
You and I, we are humans serving the gods and those that
communes and eats with the gods.
Ay
Senior
Shihhhh!
249
No one discusses her deeds.
Ay
By owl
Senior
I, By bat then.
SCENE FADES
ACTS 8
250
SCENE 1
Hasha
I am sorry your majesty.
251
Hashny
Sorry?
For what are you sorry my little dove?
(Hasha with her face downward and ashame to lift it, afraid
and trembling, and would not answer)
The great sister Hasha, princess of all the maids of Sorek.
(Mocking her}
You are shaking and trembling.
I do not have any intention of harming you.
Have you done me any wrong to fear my wrath?
So, what are you sorry for?
Hasha
For… for letting you down, my queen.
Hashny
Ooooh! That, that.
Did I forget it? Of course I don’t forget failures, and I give
failures the due place they deserve, in the burning fire of
Hades!
Hasha
(Prostrates on the floor)
252
Great queen of the night, please have mercy.
I promise that it won’t happen again.
Hashny
Indeed sorry you are.
Hasha
Please give me another chance.
Hashny
What?!
Another chance?!
Haaa!!
For what?
To fail me again?
You know I don’t give second chance.
I expect you to make perfect use of the first chance,
That’s why I gave you all you required to succeed.
However, you still failed.
Hasha
Please your majesty, forgive me.
(Tears flowing}
253
I have served you as a worthy, credible and faithful agent
in her court.
I have never let you down not once.
Hashny
Yes you are a worthy agent.
Worthier than others in her court, faithful and
recommendable.
Yet that doesn’t exempt you from the penalty for failing
me.
What actually happened?
Hasha
I don’t understand….
I can’t explain what happened, at igaza.
Hashny
Oh, not to worry, I will do that for you.
What happened is that you are a great disgrace to your
rank.
Though very wise and intelligent agent, but very stupid
And useless to me at igaza.
I sent you to igaza on a mission and you went drinking
sleeping portion.
254
What a wonderful person you are.
And now are you going to tell me that it was all a mystery
to you.
Yet you said, you don’t understand? Indeed you don’t!
Who gains understanding by sleeping when others are
wide awake?
Hasha
(Trembling}
Yourrrrrr majesty…
Hashny
Silent!!
Silent before I cut off your tongue, you fool.
And feed you to my crocodiles here.
(At this point the crocodiles in the pool start wrestling
among themselves)
Say one more and you would kiss your breathe good bye.
(Hasha remain silent immediately shivering with fear}
Hashny
I have heard rumors from her loyal maids about certain
stupid
255
Folktale stories of encounter they had while there.
Do you have any idea of such thing?
Of course you don’t, why would you?
I suddenly forgot, you don’t know because you were as
sleep all through the encounter.
Hasha
Forgive me….
Hashny
Shihhhh!
I have heard enough of your sorry, would your repeating
sorry make me forgive you or do anything about the
situation at hand?
I heard she has sworn allegiance and confess faith to
heenu,
The god of those wretched and dusty sects.
How true is it?
Have you discovered anything new about her, lately?
Hasha
Yes your majesty.
Ever since we returned, the words of the sects and their
teachings has not
Cease from her mouth.
She gathers everyone around to tell them about the love,
kindness and
256
Grace of the god heenu.
She talks about him with such great passion as if she had
known him long before now
Everybody listens with such amazement, of the queen of
tyre propagating
Such blasphemous message.
An outright rebellion against the great Luneah.
Hashny
None refute her?
Hasha
Who can refute the queen of tyre?
Hashny
And the king is saying nothing while this evil beast of a
Woman wants to bring curse upon this land.
Hasha
I am sorry to say this.
The king and some of the senators find no fault in it.
Hashny
257
How do you mean?
Hasha
I was with her when she was summoned by the king,
because the priest agnezar informed the king of her
blasphemes, and its consequences.
Hashny
Agnezar is already aware?
How come I am just hearing of it?
Hasha
Everyone has been afraid to face you.
Hashny
Why?
Hasha
Because of the incidence at lord Buba’s shrine.
Hashny
That is what happens to those who disappoint our god
Luneah.
So, you said she was summoned.
Hasha
Yes my lord queen.
258
She was summoned before the king and those present
were senator malchus….
Hashny
Ahhhhh!
The old schemer …. He will simply turn every circumstance
and other’s adventure to his own end.
Was senator plublus there?
Hasha
Yes my queen
Hashny
Where you see the schemer there you will see the slayer.
The king’s two rabbits, worthy of the knife and roasting
fire.
Hasha
They were present,
Listened with keen interest…..
Hashny
Yes, yes they always do that.
259
When they listen their minds walk thro and fro.
So, what happened?
Did they rebuke or condemned her according to the laws of
Sorek?
Hasha
Sire, rebuke?
You often say she is a manipulating witch, of a truth you
are right.
They rather gave her a pat on the shoulder to keep
blaspheming the gods.
Indeed, she bewitched them.
Howbeit, in her craftiness, she didn’t utter a word against
the gods and neither did she praise them.
A very dangerous craft.
Yet in her words, she praised her new found god, the king
did not rebuke her, instead he protects and approves her.
She is indeed a witch. No wonder I slept off like that in
igaza.
Hashny
What?
I understand the two senators because I know how their
minds works.
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They could approve only because the king does, but behind
their approval there is a scheme.
But as for the king, the tyree incarnate?
I don’t understand why he will do that knowing the
consequences. He cannot be bewitched.
The throne Emar makes him immune to such things.
If not I would have had my ways through such into his
mind.
Hashny
The gods will strike every one of them down one after the
other.
Hasha
Since the king protects her there is nothing we can do to
stop her preaching.
Except we remove the king by our means then we can stop
her.
Hashny
Are you deaf? Didn’t you hear what I said?
No one can touch the king by such means, he is the tyree.
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The blood covenant protects him from the powers of the
cults.
He represents the patriarch of the nation, cults and religion
of tyre.
There is nothing we can do to harm or remove him.
He knows it and of course he takes advantage of it to
humble me.
Hasha
He can’t abandon Luneah.
Hashny
Yes, if he does, my son will lose the throne.
The kingdom will be given to another family.
I will not live to see that day come.
Hence, best stay away from the king.
The focus is that woman.
Hasha
But she is protected by the king.
For the past days we returned she is been desecrating the
sacred
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Courts with her messages.
Hashny
Don’t worry about her.
I have so many packages waiting for her to untie.
I will make her suffer until she begs for death.
She would wish she never go against the gods.
Where is she now?
Hasha
Hashny
The sect?
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She gave you the responsibility to decide who she meets
and who she shouldn’t, because she trusts your judgment.
Hasha
Hashny
Hasha
264
Hashny
(Aside talk}
(sits)
Hasha
I am sorry sire
(Shedding tears}
Hashny
265
And tell me what happened next you are going to be in
Hades
Come on talk!!
Hasha
Hashny
Agent of what?
Hasha
Transformation sire.
Conquer.
Hashny
266
Conquer who?
Hasha
Hashny
(Laughs scornfully}
Dreamers.
An invasion.
Could…?
267
Born far more powerful than any prophesy, anyway, the
matter awaits me to be discussed with the sisters in the
next meeting.
Let them come with their quest, for Hashny will not
Hasha, quest shall meet quest and in the end we shall have
the conquest.
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What else did they commission her for?
Hasha
I……
Hashny
You what?
And that was the point you took the sleeping portion, isn’t
it?
Hasha
Hashny
Hasha
269
I can’t explain what happened to me sire.
Your majesty
Hashny
I wish someone had heard what the voice said, apart from
what the sects present were declaring.
Hasha
Voice?
Hashny
270
Moreover, they reported there were an earthquake and a
brilliant light which couldn’t behold.
Hasha
Hashny
Here, take.
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Put this somewhere in her room; make sure she doesn’t
see it.
When her spirit is been subdued you will see it from your
mirror
Hasha
Hashny
(Hasha exits}
SCENE FADES
ACTS 9
SCENE 1
272
At a square where Ashthea is surrounded by crowds
listening to her with keen interest.
Ashthea
He is the giver of life and the creator of the heavens and the
earth.
Crowd
Indistinct chatting
273
She is evil and wicked.
Hashny
Do you want the wrath of the gods upon yourself and upon
your children?!
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Go back to your homes!!
Cover your heads in shame with dust and cry, pray to the
gods to
Ashthea
For how long do you think you can hold them in darkness?
Hashny
Darkness?
Ashthea
Heenu is the light and the light became man to give men
the light of freedom.
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And he has decided to send the very light to the people of
this land.
Hashny
(Laughs)
So what other light are you going to give them? His light is
superior!
Excess light will not be good for their soul, the light of
Luneah suffice.
They don’t need your old gray dusty men and barren light.
Ashthea
276
The land of tyre, even while it was orphir belonged to him.
Hashny
Ashthea
Hashny
277
You dare challenge the gods to a fight?
I will rain hell on you, until you realize how foolish you
have been.
Ashthea
278
Overflowing mercies of heenu.
Take my hand for it is the hand of heenu, and you shall live.
Hashny
What an insolent….
And you are still here, like chaff waiting for the fire from
the wrath of the gods?!
(Lifts her hand, fire starts falling from the sky devouring
everything at the square. the people starts running for
their lives)
Ashthea
Noooo!!
279
Hashny
Noooo?
Noooo?
Hashny
(Hashny exits)
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(Hasha walks up to Ashthea smiling mischievously behind
her)
Ashthea
What kind of god would kill his subjects just to instill fear
and gain their respect and obedience?
Hasha
She is the evil itself! My lord queen, she is the evil itself
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(Feigning to fear)
You should have taken her hand when she offered it….she
offers it only once.
282
(Soliloquy) lo, my words must have sunk fear deep into her
soul to weak her faith in her so god and then I shall strike.
Let her just speak the fear with her mouth and the deed
shall be done, here and now.
Ashthea
Hasha
Wounded
I need a physician.
Hasha
Help you?!
Aren’t you not better dying than living with half fried
body?
Call on the god heenu to save you from the injuries Luneah
inflicted on you…that is .if he can.
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Make the noise again and I will send you to that by myself.
(Hasha exits)
(SCENE FADES}
ACTS 10
SCENE 1
Hasha
285
You know her, don’t you?
Assassin
I sure do my lady.
The tall good hearted queen among queens.
Hasha
You were recommended to be very good at this.
Remove that good heart and then you will have
Your full payment.
Assassin
What of the guards?
Hasha
As was agreed, they are arranged away from her.
You will encounter no obstacle.
Assassin
Just get my full payment waiting for me.
Hasha
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It is waiting for you.
(Assassin enters into the crowd as Ashthea is addressing
them.
He makes move to stab her. Her guards stand far off)
Hasha
Ashthea, I said there will always be tomorrow.
Now I send you an arrow of death to shake off your stay
here on earth.
Severally, you escaped my charms and powers; let me see
how you will escape this death.
O ye gods, this day I bring you the greatest sacrifice.
The sacrifice of the head of your enemy and along with any
who has followed her.
This day I will make a shaken that will make the world that
the gods reside in tyre.
(Hasha Exits)
Ashthea
(Stops in the middle of her address and shouts}
What shall it profit you to loose your soul?!
What shall it profit you to loose your soul?!!
(Sobs, placing her hand on her chest with pains in her
heart)
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(Everyone is shot still and astonish, wondering at her
words and weeping. Particularly her expression capture
the attention of the assassin}
Assassin
What is she saying?
What is wrong with her? And why is she crying?
Citizen 1
(Indistinct conversation}
What did she say?
What is wrong with her?
Why is she crying?
Citizen 2
She says …. I don’t really know.
But she weeps like a baby with passion…for us.
Citizen 3
She said, “What shall it profit you to loose you soul”
(Assassins stand with these citizens}
Assassin
What does she mean by that?
Who is she referring to?
Citizen 3
288
I don’t have any idea sir
(Assassin continues on his mission}
Ashthea
Why?!
Why?!!
Would you rather perish in the fires of hell than go to
heaven and spend eternity with heenu?
Assassin
(Speaks to himself}
Heaven and fires of hell?
What is this lady rattling?
Ashthea
I am not rattling!
I am simply telling your soul the truth.
Desist from the evil which you intend doing.
(Assassin stops immediately at that point to gaze upon
Ashthea whose face is not even toward his position}
Assassin
Desist from the evil which you intend to do….
How did she even know I said she is rattling?
Ashthea
Nothing is hidden from the mighty heenu.
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He knows every thought of men,
Everything about us is laid open before him.
(Turns toward assassin they have eye contact}
Don’t you know, that he that kills by the sword shall die by
The sword?
Assassin
(Overwhelm with fear)
By the gods! I have been discovered.
(Struck with awe and astound with the feeling he is been
discovered.
He turns to run)
Ashthea
The best decision for you now is not run away from
This opportunity to embrace the light of freedom.
This is the moment to surrender to heenu.
Come to him as you are, with your sins and filthiness.
He will not cast you away.
He loves you the way you are.
He loves you so much, that is why he came and died for
you.
He died that you may live.
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Assassin
(Overwhelm with conviction, Comes kneeling before
Ashthea}
My dear queen the evil bird of the night comes kneeling at
the feet of light.
Mine is greater sin, for I was hired to cause sorrow to the
joy of the good
People.
And to shed the blood that is most pure in the world.
I don’t know if your god heenu will ever forgive my sins.
Do I have that chance with him?
Ashthea
My dear friend heenu is most merciful.
There is no sin no matter how deep heenu cannot forgive.
Accept and confess to him and he will forgive and
remember your sins no more.
Assassin
(Sobbing}
I am an assassin.
I have killed too many to be counted.
My sins are incredible my queen.
I was hired to eliminate you, by a lady; I don’t even know
her name.
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(Indistinct conversation at hearing that. Everyone
expecting the queen to arrest him}
Ashthea
“He that comes to me I will not cast out.
Even if your sins were as scarlet I will wash it away”
Those are the very words of heenu.
And he also commands us to love till the light of the sun
and moon cease to
Shine.
I forgive you, my brother.
(Indistinct conversation}
Citizen 1
She forgave him?
Citizen 2
That is impossible. No human could ever forgive that,
Not even the king.
Citizen 3
That is the life of the sect.
It is an amazing life.
So amazing, isn’t it?
Citizen 2
292
This is madness.
Then all others that have killed should
Then be forgiven, is that it?
This is unacceptable.
Citizen 1
This is the power of love.
This is what love is.
I have never seen anybody shown love as she does.
If this is what the sect is all about I accept it.
Citizen 3
Me too.
Citizen 2
Of course you dare not.
I am sure woman; your husband will not be happy hearing
you say that.
Have you forgotten, the daughter of Luneah threatened
with wrath?
Citizen 1
Who is still afraid of her?
293
Open up your heart mister and see the light.
I will go and kneel once the man gets up.
Assassin
You are indeed pure in heart.
I accept your god.
Ashthea
Then we will pray together sir.
Assassin
With all my heart
(Just as they were praying an arrow from nowhere shot the
assassin at the back)
The crowd is thrown into disarray, running helter and
scatter. No one knows from where the arrow came}
Ashthea
Noooo!
Someone get me the physicians!!
Assassin
(Fall into the arms of Ashthea, struggling to say a word in
pains}
294
Great queen…
Ashthea
Speak not my brother.
What is your name?
Assassin
Lukrato, my queen.
The best….and ….highest paid assassin.
Ashthea
That was your past, but you are now a new person.
A new seed, a new breed.
Someone please heeeelp!
Assassin
(Some courageous citizens enters to help}
No, no sire, I don’t need help to get to where I am going.
Citizen 2
What are you saying sir?
You need urgent help, where are the physicians.
Citizen 1
They went to the homes of those casualties that couldn’t
make it to the square, to treat them.
295
Assassin
I need to head on to where I am going.
Don’t try to stop me.
Citizen 2
You are, badly wounded and loosing so much blood.
Where will you go with this fatal wound?
Citizen 2
Wonderful world of glory?
Citizen 3
What is he saying?
Tell us, where are you going?
Assassin
296
Oh, oh, I see myself walking into a great dazzling light
which rays with colors more beautiful than rainbows,
piercing through my being.
Leading to a land on a hill very far way.
A Land of life and light, glittering beyond the word
precious treasures.
I hear trumpets coming from golden hills calling me to
come home to him.
And sounds of joyous multitudes from this city of light and
rays,
Calling me by my native name to join them.
Ashthea
That is the land of heenu.
Citizen 2
Land of heenu?
So, it is true about this god heenu, that he is real?
Ashthea
So real my friend.
I have seen him, once.
297
Citizen 2
Great queen, do they speak our tongue in the land of
heenu?
Ashthea
Heenu is universal.
Assassin
The sound…of their joy drowns the noise of the world and
the beating of my heart. I can hardly hear my heart beat.
There, do you see?
Citizens
See what?
What do you see?
Assassin
A golden king rides on chariots of white glittering horses to
collect my soul to the city.
From here I ride with him.
Citizen 2
A golden king….
Citizen 3
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That must be heenu the god of the sect.
Her message is true about him after all.
Citizen 2
Then it is true
Ashthea
(The assassin’s hand drops as he gives up the ghost}
Then head on my brother to the land of wonderful lights,
peace and joy until we shall meet again,
In the golden land of heenu.
(She closes his eyes. Then enters her guards}
Guards
Sire, are you alright?
Ashthea
As you can see.
Citizen 2
(Kneels with others}
Most worthy and kind hearted queen.
We pray thee give us the honor to be followers of this way.
Let us follow behind your back to learn all about this god.
299
Ashthea
Then gather the remains of this most blessed soul and
follow me.
(The citizens carries the body to follow her while the
guards watch in amazement and then follow along}
SCENE FADES
ACTS 11
SCENE 1
Hasha
It is been three years of several attempts.
Twice have I failed this year but for this third time, I will
not fail,
Lest I kiss my breath goodbye.
The charm in her room is definitely useless as chaff.
But I will put this substance into her food.
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She must die and the cook shall be blamed for it.
Here she leaves.
(She sneaks into the kitchen and adds the substance to the
meal and then sneaks away}
Hasha
(Standing from a distance, watching the cook carrying off
the meal}
Luneah be praised!
At last I am saved from Hashny’s wrath,
For this will be my last chance.
If I fail, may the gods forbid!
But If I fail I will be singing good bye song to my
generation.
It would be my head cooking in the boiling pot of the
daughter of Luneah.
However, I am certain against all odds, that the substance
will tear in pieces her intestines.
Today is my last chance.
(Hasha exit}
(Cook serves Ashthea the meal who is already set to eat}
Ashthea
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(Taste the food}
Mmmm! this is the best meat soup you have ever prepared
Donai.
Donai
(Standing before her}
Thank you your majesty.
I am blessed that you are pleased with it.
Ashthea
(Taste it again}
Wow!
What special ingredients did you add to it?
I think the king should taste this.
Donai
Nothing special your majesty.
It is just the usual ingredients.
Ashthea
(Surprise at what she said}
The same?
Well, it can’t be because it is not the same taste.
Ashthea
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(Discovers someone peeping through the curtains}
And who is that spying me eating this delicious meal?
(Donai discovers the person}
Donai
It’s Hasha, your majesty.
Ashthea
And why is she peeping?
Donai
I don’t know sire
Ashthea
(Hasha doesn’t know she is been discovered}
Why is the princess of all maids peeping?
(Dumbfound. she comes out comported}
Hasha
Your majesty
(Bows)
Ashthea
Why were you peeping at my delicious meat soup?
Hasha
No I wasn’t sire.
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Ashthea
No you weren’t, but you were…
(Hasha is dumfounded)
Sit down and join me.
Hasha
(Flare up in response}
Noooo!! Thank, thank you your majesty.
Yiiiiii, am full I just had my dinner.
I had overeaten sire.
Ashthea
Overeaten what, Hasha?
The maids do not eat before the royalties.
So what are ….?
Hasha
I am looking for quian.
Ashthea
304
Quian?
Who is quian?
Hasha
Queen Hashny’s cat.
Ashthea
Hashny’s cat?
In my quarter?
Why would my chief maid be looking for her cat?
And why would her cat be here?
Hasha
She said she saw it enter here.
And she asked me to get it for her.
Ashthea
She saw it from her mirror entering here or what?
How could her cat find its way to my chamber distance
away from hers?
Hasha! I asked you a question.
Hasha
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Quian, quian.
Quian, quian.
Come out boy, where are you?
(Searching}
(Ashthea and Donai looks at each other, shock at Hasha’s
strange behavior)
Your majesty, are you feeling alright?
Are you experiencing any disorder in your tummy?
Ashthea
Am I what?
Hasha
Quian, quian.
The Palace physician asked if you are alright or if you are
having
Any stomach upset?
Ashthea
Am I supposed to?
Anyway, when did he ask you?
Hasha
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Moments ago.
Ashthea
Hasha, the physician traveled to marlan yesterday.
So which physician, are you referring to?
Hasha
You are not supposed to be talking sire.
You are supposed to be dead, or the least, very sick.
Donai
Hasha!
What are you saying?
Are you alright?
Hasha
(Comes to her senses, scratching her head}
No… no I am not alright.
I didn’t know what I was saying.
Dust has found its way into my brain.
I have been through much stress lately.
Please my noble queen, permit me to retire.
I need rest.
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Ashthea
I understand, Hasha.
It’s alright you can go.
(Hasha turns to leave}
Hasha…
(She turns to hear what she wants to say}
Ashthea
308
Really?
Indeed these few days I have experienced lots of foul play.
I want to put her on leave while another temporally takes
her place.
Let me see if our rooster would cry softly on another roof.
(Donai wonders what Ashthea could mean by that}
(Ashthea goes back to the food}
Mmmm, wonderful taste.
Hasha
(Behind the doors. Boiling, confused and going crazy}
Wonderful?
This is really wonderful.
Why shouldn’t it?
Her god arrested the assassin and here the black deadly
Substance is wonderful to her taste.
That is wonderful, isn’t it?
Isn’t it Hasha?
Hasha you are doomed.
I hope you know that.
(Restless}
She didn’t die.
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Yes she didn’t die I know that, but what am I going to do?
If she doesn’t die today I am going to die tomorrow.
Why would I die?
What have I achieved in this miserable life to die
tomorrow?!
I must do something.
I must take the lion by its jaw.
SCENE 2
310
In the same night.
Ashthea is as sleep in her chamber. Someone enters into
her chamber in the dark.
Ashthea wakes while the person pulls out knife to stab her.
She holds the hand with the knife, they start struggling for
it.
Ashthea
Guards!!
(Enters a guard with light that reveals the face of the
culprit, more guards enters)
Hasha!
Hasha
Yes it is I.
It is I.
An agent of the great Luneah on your trail.
You will die witch!
I cannot die while you live!!
It is your head or mine!!!
Die!!!!
(As she intends to stab Ashthea}
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Guard
Hold it there!
(Seeing that guards were coming in numbers she turns to
flee, two wings grow from her back. As she tries to escape
the guard shot an arrow that gives her fatal wound.
She flies away with the wound}
Ashthea
(Greatly astounded at the incidence}
Hasha is…a witch?
(More guards enters}
Lieutenant
Your majesty, are you alright?
How did the culprit pass the posts?
What happened?
Guard
It was Hasha.
She tried to murder the queen.
I shot her in the chest.
The wound should be fatal; surely she will bleed to death.
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Lieutenant
You have done well.
Now go and inform chief sulera about it.
It is his place to inform emnon and capuri, before it gets to
the king.
Guard
Right away sir.
(Salute and exits)
Lieutenant
Bring more men to heavily guard this place!
Don’t worry your majesty you are safe now.
Ashthea
(Still amazed)
My most trusted maid wanted to kill me.
SCENE FADES
313
SCENE 3
Hashny
Has the shooting star turned to a fallen star?
And the conqueror already conquered?
Has my pride under her wing turned into effigy of ridicule?
A mocking sight
For women of the palace to taunt me with?
What is this downfall that I see?
Hasha
(Suffering from the pain of the wound}
Hasha
This failure is not deliberately design; it is just an event
beyond my control.
Hashny
Ah, so there is an event beyond your control, with all my
powers deposited in you?
What happened?
Hasha
The days you gave me elapsed, and I was not able to kill
her.
I sent the assassin but she converted him to a sect.
I put the charm in her room yet her god destroyed it, twice
have I narrowly
Escaped death.
I poisoned her but the poison was wonderful to her taste.
She ate it, but instead it added flavor and energy to her life.
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It became the best delicacy she has ever tasted.
I was so desperate to live and not to fail you.
So I went to eliminate her by myself, but I couldn’t.
Hashny
Yoooou fool!
You would have used your mirror to summon and strike
her.
Hasha
As if you don’t know my queen.
As if you didn’t hear me narrate my ordeals.
I have tried that over and over my queen but that doesn’t
work,
You know that.
Hashny
I knew and I still suggest?
How dare you fail me?
Hasha
I have tried all I could.
Her god protects her.
He is indeed powerful
(Hashny growling in fury as she talks}
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Hashny
Shut…up!
You dare say that?
(She waves her hand and Hasha turns into a monkey,
jumping up and down)
You are better off a monkey than being a human talking
trash.
Hashny
(Sulera Bows)
Ah, noble man.
Sulera you are welcome.
Hope no one saw you coming?
Sulera
None my great queen.
May the great daughter of Luneah live forever and never
find an equal.
Hashny
Indeed, but it is obvious there is one who intends to rub
shoulder with me.
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Sulera
Impossible!
Is such one not born of a woman, not to fear you?
Is he or she new in this world, not to have known that even
the soil on which he or she stands hears your name and
shiver?
(Takes note of the monkey}
Did your majesty buy a monkey?
Hashny
No sulera, I just turned a cat into a monkey.
(Wave her hand again the monkey turns back to Hasha
rolling dead from the stair case and into the pool of
crocodiles which feast on her body)
Sulera
(Struck with awe at the sight}
The great Hasha.
Hashny
Yes, how are the mighty fallen.
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Sulera
The princess of all maids, your noblest agent.
Hashny
None is above the consequence of failing me.
Even the noblest of my agents will be punished in the same
way.
Sulera
You summoned me, o great daughter of Luneah?
Hashny
Have you received any news about Ashthea?
Sulera
No your majesty.
Hashny
Then you and the news must have crossed path.
Sulera
Maybe, but what could the news be?
319
Hashny
You will hear it.
I have had enough of the rat’s tongue in the ear of Hashny.
I need hand that bends circumstances to its own favor, and
forces things to happen.
Can you be that hand?
Sulera
The best of it my queen.
Hashny
Hasha failed to eliminate Ashthea.
That woman has blasphemed and defied our lord and
master Luneah for three years.
Hasha’s failure has caused us so much damage.
She wasn’t able to subdue her, that is why Ashthea keeps
winning Sorekites to her god and setting our captives free.
Now, I can no longer bear her and so can’t any of you my
agent under her wing.
Bring her down! Kill her!!
This sacred domain can no longer tolerate her.
You are in charge of her security protocol, arrange it and
see it done.
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Do not fail me as well.
Succeed sulera, and you shall have the pleasure of enjoying
my body.
This is the very body of Luneah himself.
I am Luneah personified.
Succeed and come enjoy the fullness of Luneah which only
The daughter of Luneah has.
Sulera
(His mind blown by this offer}
It shall be done great daughter of darkness.
Since she will not listen to reason then she will listen to
death in her death.
I, sulera one of the many agent you have under her wing
vow that I shall lay down
My life to see it done, then I shall come for the offer.
Hashny
Then taste a sample of what you stand to gain, intimately
with me.
(Kisses him romantically even as sulera trembles)
Sulera
(His face glow with smiling)
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Oh, my queen! My queen!!
(Kneels kissing her hand)
Hashny
Just arrange a shooter and inform the guards to make
space for the arrow into her heart.
Sulera
My love and my life are yours.
I kiss them into your hands, to do with them as you so
wish.
For you have offered a lowly soul like me the very eternal
blessing desired by all the great lords of the cult, yet
farfetched from their grips.
I am but a servant of servants among those serving your
purpose in the cult, and yet you find me worthy to share
your body, the very body of Luneah?
I will die first to fail to have a full of what I taste.
Hashny
You will have it all when I behold her corpse.
Sulera
I will show you her corpse my queen.
I vow with my life, that I will show you her corpse.
Then I will return to have the prize for her corpse.
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SCENE FADES
ACTS 12
SCENE 1
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My dear gallant friends, I share your feelings but I am
armed so strong with truth to defend truth, and with truth
defeat lies.
Lies with its falsehood and deception will always fight to
quench the light of truth, but it can’t win.
If heenu be false Luneah wouldn’t bother to fight, because
lies will always fail and be exposed.
No matter how long you cripple the truth it will still leap
into reality and no matter how long falsehood thrive it will
one day fall, and great shall be its fall than its rising.
Howbeit, why fighting? If not that heenu is the truth and
the darkness can not stand the prevailing truth, and so it
fights but at the end, truth will always prevail.
Can’t you see that despite every attempt I still stand like a
mountain?
Truth can never be silenced, and no matter how well they
try.
Woman 2
A truth though so true is a danger to your own soul in tyre,
you know that.
Shall we loose your virtuous person because of truth?
You know tyre too well, don’t you?
Should I even ask? Are you not the queen of tyre?
You know that the likes of Hashny doesn’t allow truth exist
in this land.
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Darkness doesn’t accommodate truth here.
So we implore you, lie low with this heenu thing let the
storm calm.
Remember the last incidence with your most trusted maid,
whom you later learnt was a member of the sisters. She
attempted your life, and no doubt she was not working
alone.
And as you know, Hashny is paramount among the sisters.
You can’t tell who else among these are with them in this
whole enterprise.
You can’t trust these maids and guards of yours.
You can’t tell who is who and who will strike again.
It is without doubt, that Hasha and either of these, had
hand in the case of that assassin.
Woman 3
Who knows, they may have eliminated him so that he will
not expose their involvement.
Knowing that he was captured by heenu and definitely he
would talk.
I heard from a good source that the assassin was very good
at his profession.
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Woman 2
So I heard, and only one so stronger and better could
outwit and bring him on his knees and made him turn back
on his mission.
That was what heenu did.
And whoever that hired him meant death for our friend
here.
Woman 1
The same that has always hated and despise her righteous
soul, and wish to have Derbe all to herself.
Woman 2
That is the part I find so odd.
Woman 3
How?
Woman 2
What on earth will the so called princess of darkness and
daughter of Luneah be looking for in a man?
Who dines with the gods should have affair with the gods
and not humans…..
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Woman 1
Shihhhh! No mention of her name.
Woman 2
What?! Why?
Woman 1
I heard that the birds run her errands and tells her who
gossips her name. Look, they hover over the sky, even the
walls in tyre spies for her.
They could tell on us.
Woman 2
Please stop it queen el, you fear evil too much.
How can I fear that, when Ashthea and her god are here
with us?
Right Ashthea?
Ashthea
Absolutely.
Woman 2
Besides, Ashthea’s god appears to be the charioteer while
the Sorekites seems to be the horse.
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All
Hahahahah!!!
Woman 1
Still I am worried about her safety here.
Ashthea, come with me to Amithya and spend some
months.
Avoid these hordes of wolves for a mean time, until the
storm calms.
Moreover, the work of heenu you started in my land of
Amithya is growing, and we need you there.
Though my husband the king may not have openly
supported for fear of Luneah, but in his several words
within the inner chamber made his support known to me,
and by the hand of unnamed persons he finances the
course of heenu in Amithya.
Woman 3
I agree with queen el, for the sake of your life which we
value most.
Go to Amithya, any where, even to igaza. but leave tyre for
a while.
Ashthea
And why will I do that?
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Run away because of the battle?
If I run in the face of the battle then my faith in Heenu is
absolutely weak.
What becomes of the converts?
Women 2
(Sitting close to Ashthea. Takes Ashthea’s hand)
Ashteaaaa, always stubborn like a bull.
(Both chuckles)
It is your life we are talking of and afraid for.
We have all known and love ourselves for so long like
sisters and that is why we have come to ask you, to leave
tyre…
(Ashthea tries to get up from her. Woman 2 draws her
back tenderly)
Ashthea, Ashthea please.
We are your friends. We love you, even more than we love
our own lives, you know that.
From the first day you spoke to us of heenu, your words
implanted this irrefutable light and confidence in my heart
about heenu.
Though I may not express it in my palace for fear of the
laws of Sorek and the decree of Luneah which has so
crippled the minds and will of everyone in my land with
fear to stand on what is the truth.
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Yet I have been applying wisdom and caution in my little
service to him.
And I would not want to endanger my family, my people
and my husband the king.
Moreover, I do not want what happened to lukrenea and
her family to happen to you.
Ashthea
(Uneasy)
Lukrenea?
Woman 1
Oh, that was terrible and horrible.
(Looks up with tears in her eyes)
Ashthea
What happened to lukrenea and her family?
I sent her letter that I will be visiting next summer and I
have not gotten reply from her.
What happened?
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Woman 2
You mean you have not heard?
Ashthea
Heard what?
Woman 1
(The women surprise at her question and looks at each
other with tears running from their eyes to their cheek)
I am surprise, not even the king has told you?
Woman 3
Lukrenea is dearest cousin to Ashthea the king knows that.
It won’t be easy for him to tell her such horror.
Ashthea
Tell me what?
What horror?!
(The women are silent)
Is someone going to tell me what happened to my cousin
and her family?!!
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Woman 2
I am sure you heard of king Ariak’s decree a month ago,
seceding her land from Sorek and Luneah, declaring faith
in heenu ….and in the sect?
Ashthea
Of course, the bravest off all kings.
Woman 2
Seven days after that pronouncement.
The king and his entire household were found eaten alive
…
Ashthea
Please stop that fable.
What do you mean by……?
Woman 1
Their flesh were eaten while alive, their bones crushed into
pieces, their hearts were plucked out and placed on top of
their chest.
Oh, I dare not speak further….. I feel like vomiting.
The pictures stare before me again, in my mind.
Excuse me…… (Aside to vomit)
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Woman 2
They were left that way, undead.
(Ashthea falls down sobbing)
They were undead for 7 days left for every eye to behold
enough to fear the judgment of Luneah. They were allowed
to die, in pains …..And in tears.
(Sobs)
Ashthea
What of …lukrenea?
Woman 1
She met the same end.
Ashthea
Aaah!
No, no, lukreeeneaaaa!!
Why didn’t the death come to me instead?
Why would death be so coward not to come to me?
O, lukrenea, my cousin.
(Sobs)
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Woman 1
She tried to speak to me….
Ashthea
Speak?!
Woman 1
Yesssss!
(Sobs)
They were left in such death, yet alive to undergo such
horrible pains and torture of death.
Such heartless death, cruelly mete to a good soul like
lukrenea.
She tried speaking a word, but she managed to utter
espeedo rama un tu tes. Meaning, speed up the race and
never give up.
(Ashthea weeps)
Woman 1
Good Ashthea, good Ashthea, I know lukrenea urges to
further on heenu’s course and your devotion to heenu is
obviously quite unquestionable, but please I must
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persuade you to consider what happened to lukrenea and
leave tyre for now. (The other women stand with el on this
that Ashthea should leave)
Women
Go to mythia for now.
Every kingdom is now much more afraid of Hashny and
Luneah.
The incidence of lukrenea terrifies everyone.
Ashthea
Leave tyre?
Did you hear yourselves?
Leave behind the works she was cruelly butchered for.
You saw her corpse, didn’t you?
Didn’t you?!
Woman 1
I did Ashthea!
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We all saw it and we don’t want the same to happen to
you, because you are so dearest to us.
That is why we left our palaces to talk to you.
The pains Lukrenea went through was unbearable, even so
unbearable and painful for the eyes to behold.
I would prefer loosing an eye than to behold such sight the
second time.
For the love we so much bear for you, we urge you to leave
to fight another day.
Unlike you I speak not the voice of any god, but I speak the
voice of common reasoning, and of love!
Ashthea
I know you think it is your love for me that thus speaks, but
believe me it is your fear, and fear is the worst enemy in
this struggle that I can not accommodate.
Neither was it said it’s not going to be easy nor did I ever
expect it so.
For by the mouth of the elders wars, trials and
assassinations were forewarned.
So el I am not afraid.
I am well armed with the promises of heenu, to face and
defeat every gorgon beast they send.
Why will I ask others to stand till death while I flee at the
sight of it?
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What sort of general will I be?
Woman 1
One so wise and endowed with wisdom.
Think Ashthea, think and fight wisely.
Your god heenu will understand your action is not an act of
cowardice, but as the eye of the sect in tyre you are better
off alive for them than being dead.
Please let these tears in our eyes prevail upon your
stubbornness.
Come with me, to Amithya.
Ashthea
I can’t abandon my commission.
I can’t abandon these frightening and helpless souls of tyre
I have converted to be butchered by the Sorekites.
The king …..
Woman 1
The king?
How long are you going to rely on his protection?
Have you forgotten that he is the king on the seat of Sorek
founded on Emar’s blood?
He is covenanted and obliged to Luneah by the blood, to
protect and defend the course of Sorek and Luneah.
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He will not stand for you forever.
Sooner or later he will come to terms with reality.
My dear friend, the king, your husband can never go
contrary to the decree of Luneah, if he must remain king.
If he should lose the throne because of this struggle, you
know what that means.
Hashny’s son, presly will no longer be king after his father.
You know too well that neither presly nor his mother will
rest until they kill you for it.
Ashthea
Even if the volt of Luneah would strike me, yet I will stand
my ground…
Women
Ashtheaaa!
Ashthea
If I will die, then let me die.
But I will not leave these converts of mine to be devoured
by those brutish wolves.
My place is in tyre, and that is where my call is.
If I die, then I die fulfilling my mandate.
Mourn me not for too long, because I would have gone to a
better than world.
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Speak no more!
You have done your best, but on the contrary I am
resolved to fight on and never give up.
That is why I am heenu’s general in sorek’s land.
(The women are short of words)
Woman 3
The world has always seen how powerful Luneah is, how
devastating and destructive his wrath can be.
Few days ago five Sorekites converted to Sect were
mysteriously killed while as sleep.
Report says, their tongues came out of their mouths five
feet long and their eyes were no where to be found.
So many other events of horrible and mysterious deaths
happening to Sorekites converted to sects.
Now that makes me wonder, why heenu didn’t protect
them.
With this the world in general still beholds Luneah as
abler, better and mightier.
For this they and all their cults are devoted to fight on,
because the blood of the covenant by which they live is
been threatened.
Ashthea
I do not argue with that my friend.
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But I would ask a question to that effect.
Has there ever been any one raised from the dead by
Luneah?
Has the Luneah ever prospered a man without taken
something precious from him?
(Everyone is silent}
Why the silence?
Obviously silence answers the questions.
He neither gives life nor has the power over death.
I have been teaching this message among you for three
years now and you can not deny the enormity of the love
and power of my god demonstrated, in your lands.
The captives were set free, the blind received their sight,
and the dead are raised back to life.
And a number of Sorekites among you were converted to
the sect, all this happened in your lands and in the land of
Luneah.
Is that not enough proof to you that heenu is the true god
and his power can not be matched…..?
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Woman 1
What is happening?
Woman 2
Seems there is going to be a heavy down pour.
Suddenly the sun disappeared from the sky.
The wind seems to be blowing stronger and stronger.
Woman 3
No, this is no rain coming.
What sort of rain will announce its coming with cloud of
doom?
Lo, the gods comes are coming, with judgment.
(The wind gets so stronger and violent.
The atmosphere is intense with fear, thicker and darker.
So dark you can’t clearly see the face of the next person
with you except the brightness of the lightning flashes.
In great panic and fear, everyone runs helter from the
scene, some running home and others looking for where to
hide screaming).
Maid
The wrath of the great god Luneah!
The gods are angry and are reacting to her sacrilege.
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She has doomed us with her blaspheme!
The queen has doomed us!!
We are
All going to die!!
Run! Run for your lives!!
Servant
The gods frowns!
The gods frowns!!
Oh queen Ashthea (points at Ashthea. The wind carries
away his hart exposing his bald head)
You have brought the wrath of the gods upon us.
You have brought the wrath of the gods upon us!
(Sobs)
Must we now suffer for your blasphemies?
May our blood be upon your head!
Upon your head!!
(Spits at her feet)
Where are my children?
Queen Ashthea has doomed us!
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Ashthea
No! No!!
(The women’s three securities enters)
SS 1
Your majesties we must leave tyre at once!!
Woman 1
(Reaches her hand to Ashthea)
Ashthea, come with us now!
This land is not safe for you!!
Ashthea
(Addressing the SS1, SS2 & SS3)
Make sure you get them out of tyre!
No matter what happened, don’t turn back!!
Do you hear me?!!!
Woman 3
No, Ashthea don’t do this please.
Woman 1
Come with us, please, please.
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Woman 2
Ashthea please we beg you.
(The women kneeling at her feet sobbing holding her by
her gown. The wind blowing and carries away their hart
and scarves around their neck)
Ashthea
I am sorry….I can’t!
What do you men stand waiting for?
Get your queens out of here before it’s too late!
Go!!
(The SS pull them apart from her)
Women
Ashthea! Ashthea!!
(Exit)
(Ashthea notice her guards keeping at a distance from her.
while wondering at that, looking at the front the lightning
reveals an archer with an arrow long stretched on its bowl
pointing at her 10 walks from where she is.
The archer just about releasing the arrow)
I forgive you, heenu loves you.
(The archer stoned by those words. His heart is cut by the
fact she forgave him after seeing the face of her killer. But
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it was too late to stop the arrow for already he has let go
his fingers from the arrow and the string of the bowl)
Archer
Noooo!! O ye the gods!!!
(The arrow shot Ashthea who in slow motion falls to the
ground.
As she falls the weather starts calming. The atmosphere
starts turning brighter, the flowers blown around by the
storm starts dropping all around her breathless body, and
the storm fades)
(Soliloquy) What in the world could she mean by that?
What In the world could she mean by…..?
How could the world loose such a rare treasure?
Such virtuous soul as this should never be allowed to taste
death, nor meet such end as this.
This deed is an error supported by the gods themselves.
This queen, this epithet of grace and kindness, with the
beauty of her spirit did what the gods can never do,
forgiving the wrongs meted to them.
Even at the face of death she still loved her vile offender,
the one in whose hand lies her blood unjustly.
This despicable deed of error, this vile deed of men of
hatred for good, and of righteousness!
Will never be pardoned of this generation by generations
unborn.
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When they asked, why then do we suffer like this? And
they will be alarmed to learn of this wicked and shameful
deed of their fathers, that is why they gnash their teeth.
(Sighs)
These evil men always using the young and ignorant to
achieve their end, and by the deed we ignorantly destroy
our future fortunes.
With this queen, the kingdom has a future of a world with
no fuss, but of sweet love.
In her lies our future, and ignorantly I have tampered with
it.
Oh, forgive me, you vessel that housed the queen of virtues
of good, for this evil piece I played.
I will pray to my stars that the next time you come into this
world you either be my mother or my wife.
(Enters Sulera)
Sulera
Oh, oh! Oh!!
It is done!!!
The gods have avenged themselves on her.
Did you hear that?!
The gods have finally avenged themselves on her!!
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(Very excited and paddle the archer’s shoulder laughing)
Hahahahah!!!
The gods has so much blessed me this day!
Archer
The gods or men?
Sulera
What do you mean?
Go get your reward; you have done a work no one could.
Archer
Sir, if I may ask,
What is your reward in this remarkable error?
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Sulera
The kind you will never taste.
Now leave this place before someone sees you while I go
play my last part.
For I must inform the lords, the king’s ministers.
(Sulera exits}
Archer
(Standing above Ashthea’s body addressing it}
I wish I understood what you meant.
I hope I would someday
(Turns to exit)
(There is a whispering sound behind him. The archer turns
around slowly to see what it is}
SCENE FADES
END OF BOOK 1
EPILOGUE
Ashthea shot and lays flat dead and the whispering behind
the archer,
What does that mean?
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Is that the end of the quest to conquer darkness?
What becomes of the prophecy of Ashthea bearing a child
and the prophecy the
Cults of the Sorek dread?
What would be the king’s reaction to what happened to
Ashthea?
What becomes of her commission?
Has darkness triumph over the effigy of light?
Shall there be another to carry on from where she lay flat?
Or has the hope for the light of freedom been lost?
However, one can never determine the end from the
beginning.
For what lies in this journey stands uncertain and the end
is too far to be determined.
But all this questions shall be answered by the sequence of
this book.
Get Quest To Conquer Book 2.
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