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(slams table)
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Come. Let's leave Roman business
to Romans.
:21:15
Let it go, Bors.
:21:25
Rome has issued a final order
for you and your men.
:21:30
Final order?
:21:31
You are to travel north
to rescue the family of Marius Honorius
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and return, in particular,
with Marius's son, Alecto.
:21:42
Alecto is the Pope's
favorite godchild and pupil.
:21:48
It is his destiny to become a bishop,
perhaps even pope one day.
:21:53
On this day you ask this of my men.
:21:57
On this day.
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They have risked their lives for 15 years
for a cause not of their own.
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And now, on the day they are to be
liberated, you send them on a mission
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which is far more dangerous
than any other they have undertaken.
:22:17
You tell me, Bishop,
how do I go to my men and tell them
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that instead of freedom I offer death?
:22:23
If your men are truly the knights
of legend, perhaps some will survive.
:22:28
If it is God's will.
:22:30
Your men want to go home,
:22:32
and to get home they need to cross
the entire breadth of the Roman Empire.
:22:37
Deserters would be hunted down like dogs.
:22:42
Will you defy the Pope, Arthur?
:22:44
Rome? God himself?
:22:47
Everything I've done has been
for the Church and for Rome.
:22:49
Do not mistake a loyal soldier
for a fool, Germanius.
:22:52
Would you leave a defenseless
Roman boy, destined to lead our Church,
:22:56
at the hands of the Saxons?
:22:59
Fulfill this mission, and your men
will receive their discharge.