16.11.13

9. Dastan & Tamina Escape

Sheik Amar:
Come on!

Dastan:
Ostrich racing?

Sheik Amar:
Every Tuesday and Thursday.
Whatever they lack in beauty, they make up for it in… fighting spirit.
And the races are easy to fix.

Dastan:
I've heard all these terrible stories of this place.

Sheik Amar:
The bloodthirsty slaves, murdering their masters?
That's a good story, it's well told, ever evolving, yeah, but alas untrue.

Dastan:
But the skeletons that we saw...

Sheik Amar:
Ah, I bought those from a gypsy in Bukhara.
I crafted our lurid reputation, in order to fend off the most insidious evil, that's been lurking this forsaken country of ours.
You know what I'm talkin' about? Taxes.
Dirty Persians, their armies, their fortresses, their roads, who pays for it all, eh? The small businessmen.
You see, that's why I started a little campaign, to spread some false notoriety. I spread it like a venerable disease in a Turkish harem.

Sheik Amar:
Behold the mighty ostrich! Come on, my beauty!
I love this!
And the tax collectors stay clear of me, and my customers, everybody's happy.
Hey! Get the girls on! Get the girls on, come on. Crowd control!
Don't you stand there! Run, don't walk!
Hey, you drop anything, you pay for it! It's out of your wages.
Don't look at me like that, you know what I'm talkin' about!
Do your job, crowd control. Thank you!
You know, I think our little arrange is going to work out very well, young man.

Tamina:
Ah! Don't touch!

Sheik Amar:
Oh, ho, ho! She's a lively one! Where did you find her?

Dastan:
In the slave market to Lurs I was headed to Avrat.
I traded her for a camel, when she attacked me!

Sheik Amar:
The camels are safer.

Dastan:
Noble, Sheik Amar. I appreciate your hospitality, you run a fine establishment. But if you could give me the supply...

Sheik Amar:
You know something, Persian?
You bear a remarkable resemblance to the disgrace prince, who fled after murdering the king.

Have I told you about the M'Baka?

Dastan:
Yes, you have.

Sheik Amar:
Eh, nothing beats a good story. Eh, but yours however, trading her for a camel? Please. I mean look at her. She's worth at least, two.
And as for you, young man, did you know your brothers offered rewards for you, it's quite frankly, between you and me, borders on the obscene. I’ll trade my own mother for that kind of gold.
What? You didn't know what she was like?
Take him down to the Persian outpost.

Dastan:
Wait, wait, wait.  Look, that...

Seso:
Nice knife.

Dastan:
It's nothing. That's worthless.

Sheik Amar:
Really? Melt it down for the jewels.
What's the boy doing?!
No, no, you might kill a bird!

Tamina:
Hey, over here!

Dastan:
I wouldn't do that, if I were you!

Tamina:
Get to the tunnel!

Sheik Amar:
Look at this! That's it.
No more fermented goat's milk after the third race, do you hear me? Get off, come on!



Dastan:
The gate!

Soldier:
Get him!
Stop!

Dastan:
Lift the lever, it opens the gate!

Tamina:
Give me the Dagger!

Dastan:
This is not the time, lift that lever!

Tamina:
Give me the Dagger!

Dastan:
Don't think it didn't cross my mind.
Move, princess!

Tamina:
Dastan!

Sheik Amar:
Persian!

Dastan:
Looking for this? Ooops.

Sheik Amar:

Next time, you...!

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