Or come with me, come have a seat. LAURA: Okay, all right, I'm here. LIAM: What's the matter? Yeah, it's her again.
We're going to find her. It's fine. You're huffing and hawing since we found her body. It's fine. What's going on? TALIESIN: I was really hoping she was going to go away. That's all. I was really hoping that she was just going to go away. LIAM: Well she's going to go away, Percival. If not now, later. TALIESIN: Every second she's alive is untold damage to the world. Do you know how every now and then I say something awful? LAURA: Mm-hmm. TALIESIN: I love you both very much for that. When I think of that terrible person inside of me I see her face. She has a very active imagination. She knows how to make these machines, and her imagination terrifies me. If you knew that that was me, would you let me live? Has she made ten more of these things, has she made 100? Does she hand them out to people? Maybe, I don't know, maybe she's running around and torturing people's parents and siblings to death and then handing them a gun and kicking them out into the world to see what will happen because it could be funny. LIAM: You're probably right, Percival. She probably is. This is not Lord and Lady Briarwood over again, though. TALIESIN: No, it's not. LIAM: And you're not alone. TALIESIN: No, I'm not. LIAM: You have me, you have her. You have her. You have the other two Laurel and Hardy motherfuckers who aren't back yet. TALIESIN: I was so hoping that maybe-- MARISHA: I slam some mead in front of him. TALIESIN: Thank you. I was hoping something heavy had fallen on her from a great height, saving the world a few thousand lives. LAURA: Well, we're going to be above her. Maybe we can be the one to drop something heavy. TALIESIN: That's really what I'm hoping. MARISHA: Oh, I've been practicing that actually. I can be really heavy. TALIESIN: That may help. MARISHA: Yeah. TALIESIN: She is the biggest mistake I've made, and I'm horrified by who's paid the price. LIAM: All the more reason for you to be the same cold-hearted asshole you've been for the last year. Why change now? Get the job done, Percival. TALIESIN: I'm counting to a hundred. I'll be fine. MARISHA: It's not very often we see you shaky, Percy. TALIESIN: Once we're out of here, I'll feel fine. Once that thing is off my machine I will feel fine. And I'm thinking of something else. I'm thinking of building something awful to help deal with her. MARISHA: Hang on. Wait. Hang on. I was about to ask if you ever have regrets of building something awful and releasing it into this world, and now you just said you're going to double down, essentially? TALIESIN: I've been thinking long and hard about it. I think inevitably, anytime I think of something it might be too late. I think I'm going to be very careful about what I build. I'm going to be very careful about where it goes, and I'm also going to ask anybody, if-- when I die, destroy everything. Please. This is why I don't write down notes. Any of my sketches, they're put away, and they're put in a place where I can remove them once the job is done. But I sketch my idle thoughts, and right now I'm having an idle thought for her and it's simple, it's nothing complicated, it's just vicious. LIAM: Well all right, we can do that. We can destroy anything you make, but for now, Percy. Keep your head, man. TALIESIN: One night of sleep, I'll be there. MARISHA: What exactly are you thinking of making? Just because we could destroy your notes, I mean, you're still alive and your guns still got into the world. LAURA: Regardless of what he makes, who wields it? Fenthras is a horrible weapon wielded by a horrible being before I had it. A gun can do the same thing. MARISHA: You're arguably one of the greatest minds in existence right now, Percival. TALIESIN: That's a terrible thought. MARISHA: But you are. And Vex isn't wrong. TALIESIN: I know. There are things that one day I will speak of that I'm not really ready to deal with yet. But I think I may even have something that could help us with the dragons. I have a thought. I'm going to work on it on our way to the island. LIAM: Now I'm nervous. TALIESIN: It will be something that once the dragons are felled I plan on destroying immediately after. And I think you'll be all right with it when you see it, it's too complicated for any one person to really deal with. But I will feel much better if she is in the ground. LAURA: Well I'm interested in seeing it. MARISHA: Percy. You know you can talk to us, right? You never share ideas with us. TALIESIN: I do. I told you my idea of killing all the dragonborn to start a war between the dragons. MARISHA: All right, well. TALIESIN: That's why I don't share those ideas, I'm not proud of them. LAURA: Is this thing you're building going to kill a lot of people in addition to the dragon? TALIESIN: I hope not, but it could. It could make it very easy to kill a lot of people. LIAM: One day at a time, gang. Let's deal with Ripley first. TALIESIN: Let's deal with Ripley. Let's collect a few more things that will help us deal with home. Let's save home. And then I will spend some good time undoing some of the damage that I've done. I should have killed her. I should have. MARISHA: You shouldn't feel regret about not taking another person's life. It's a moment of humanity.
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