[SPEAKER_05]: You know, they say that all stories should start with.
[SPEAKER_05]: Once upon a time, ah, ah, ah, I'm not so sure.
[SPEAKER_05]: This ain't that kind of tale.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is it about adventure?
[SPEAKER_05]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_05]: I guess you can say that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is it about danger?
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Tragedy?
[SPEAKER_05]: and more than I should probably be telling you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Anyway, this is a tale about three resilient children who changed the course of our lives forever, including yours truly.
[SPEAKER_05]: To understand and now, I suppose you got to hear that then.
[SPEAKER_05]: All the way back to the night that decided their fate.
[SPEAKER_02]: A quaint home, full of love and excitement, at a father recently returned.
[SPEAKER_02]: There all gathered around a small dinner table to enjoy a celebratory meal.
[SPEAKER_08]: Full of horses.
[SPEAKER_08]: Though you would assume soon that he leo.
[SPEAKER_09]: You would have loved exploring the planet.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's cute!
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, really?
[SPEAKER_09]: Did it have hidden rooms, too?
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, I haven't found one.
[SPEAKER_09]: But there's bound to be more.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'd love to come with you next time, Father.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'd spend all my day searching for secret hideaways and hidden items.
[SPEAKER_08]: No?
[SPEAKER_12]: No.
[SPEAKER_12]: Fortunately, I won't be going back.
[SPEAKER_12]: Not any time soon.
[SPEAKER_07]: Tell us about the wardrobe you made for the Young Lord David.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm Stormy Kale and Leo would love to hear about that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, there was one sharp dashing outlet I made for the Young Master in a row of blue color.
[SPEAKER_02]: I added some intricate lace patterns over the collar and edges.
[SPEAKER_02]: He did some play clothes, so a tuner-compenser-absolute needed.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's growing so fast.
[SPEAKER_09]: You wouldn't believe.
[SPEAKER_09]: I love to meet him.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe one day, boys.
[SPEAKER_03]: How come we never get to go, you pop?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because you're a huge distraction, Mickey.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it is good to be home again.
[SPEAKER_10]: Life Misty Wall.
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, it's not as lively without your David.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ready!
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, speaking of which, it seems you came home right in time to continue your fatherly duties.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's time for a Francis's bath.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, I guess I will never get out of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, suppose I'll go get you cleaned up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, Francis darling.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, Jens, you know the routine, play to the basin and butts in the bed.
[SPEAKER_07]: And, and don't forget to rinse your mouths!
[SPEAKER_03]: How can you be?
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, but I'm not tired!
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, let me near her!
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I see that at least some things have stayed the same since I was away, but it is bedtime boys.
[SPEAKER_08]: Are you leaving again?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going anywhere for a good boy at all.
[SPEAKER_03]: You promise.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, Mikael.
[SPEAKER_02]: On my honor as a tailor.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, sleep boys.
[SPEAKER_02]: Art cakes in the morning.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes!
[SPEAKER_03]: Yay!
[SPEAKER_03]: You like pots?
[SPEAKER_10]: Good night.
[SPEAKER_03]: Papa?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, can I help you with the fact that it's a moral?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you sure you can handle it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yes!
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I can.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a big girl now.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yes, you are.
[SPEAKER_03]: I hope you make a tune in.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, oh, dress.
[SPEAKER_03]: Look at you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why don't we start with a handkerchief?
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, upper?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, Francis.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love you, Baba.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love you too, my sweet girl.
[SPEAKER_12]: Good night.
[SPEAKER_03]: Good night.
[SPEAKER_02]: a short time later, middle of the night.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, the kids are meant to be asleep.
[SPEAKER_06]: David, the dangerous will be too much.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's no guarantee that following his orders will cause you or the children to be saved.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know, Sarah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know what you're saying.
[SPEAKER_06]: What am I to do?
[SPEAKER_06]: Surely he would understand David, you can't possibly accept that offer.
[SPEAKER_06]: Think of our children.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am thinking of the children, Sarah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't even know.
[SPEAKER_06]: But you know how he is.
[SPEAKER_12]: You always get his way.
[SPEAKER_06]: You mustn't go back there.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm telling you, Sarah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you understand what he will do if I don't accept?
[SPEAKER_06]: We can't move!
[SPEAKER_06]: Far away from this place.
[SPEAKER_06]: Somewhere he won't.
[SPEAKER_06]: Where he won't be able to find us.
[SPEAKER_12]: His place is all I ever known to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: What would you have me do?
[SPEAKER_02]: I've proved our children's lives for the foreign land.
[SPEAKER_02]: It seems 12 to reach.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's how that's been being ensnared.
[SPEAKER_09]: What are you doing?
[SPEAKER_06]: What's she doing?
[SPEAKER_09]: What are you doing?
[SPEAKER_06]: What?
[SPEAKER_09]: You're right.
[UNKNOWN]: You're right.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't mean difficult.
[SPEAKER_09]: What's wrong with you?
[SPEAKER_09]: Shh, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_09]: Quick, get back into bed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I must have been my imagination.
[SPEAKER_02]: I sound asleep.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll talk to them in the morning.
[SPEAKER_02]: For now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get some rest.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let's get a rest.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was later.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everything changes.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, Sarah!
[SPEAKER_11]: Sarah!
[SPEAKER_11]: Wake up!
[SPEAKER_11]: We have to get the children!
[SPEAKER_11]: Sarah!
[SPEAKER_11]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, he's so hot.
[SPEAKER_11]: I can't breathe, you're in.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm here.
[SPEAKER_11]: Come on, you three.
[SPEAKER_11]: We need to get out of here.
[SPEAKER_11]: Leo, get my kale.
[SPEAKER_11]: Get out of here.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm scared, Papa!
[SPEAKER_11]: I know.
[SPEAKER_11]: Just, just listen to me.
[SPEAKER_11]: I want a big body, right?
[SPEAKER_11]: Right.
[SPEAKER_11]: If you are... No.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'll take over that.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'll do for you.
[SPEAKER_11]: And wait across the crowd.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm right behind you.
[SPEAKER_11]: Father!
[SPEAKER_11]: I just... I need a bit better.
[SPEAKER_11]: I got you.
[SPEAKER_11]: And it's good.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm going to kill you.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's all right.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm not going to be all right.
[SPEAKER_11]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_04]: Nice mama.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's not okay.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: Jake, your brother is still in front.
[SPEAKER_11]: Right across the street.
[SPEAKER_11]: You'll be safe there.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'll be right behind you.
[SPEAKER_11]: They have to get your mother.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'll be right back.
[SPEAKER_11]: Come with the house!
[SPEAKER_11]: Come on, come on!
[SPEAKER_11]: Come on!
[SPEAKER_02]: It is the following morning.
[SPEAKER_02]: The gods seem to recognise their despair, for the rain pours on them on like any other.
[SPEAKER_02]: Feeling lost and in shock, the three children slowly take in the damage of the house.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nearly everything has been burned to ash.
[SPEAKER_02]: Leo pines his father's charred skeleton on the floor beside their parents bed, where his mother's bones lie.
[SPEAKER_02]: As if she had died just before the fire.
[SPEAKER_02]: A beam from the roof had fallen across their bodies and pinned them in their own.
[SPEAKER_02]: They burned together.
[SPEAKER_02]: But David's hand gripping Sarah's.
[SPEAKER_04]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: He stops Michaela and Francis before they could see what became of their parents.
[SPEAKER_04]: Don't come in here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Is that... Is uh... are they?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: We need to get out of here.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's nothing left here.
[SPEAKER_06]: But Leo!
[SPEAKER_06]: Where will we go?
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know, Mikael.
[SPEAKER_08]: We can't stay here.
[SPEAKER_08]: Go.
[SPEAKER_08]: We have to find shelter.
[SPEAKER_02]: As the children leave, friends spot something shiny, and half hidden under a child fabric, a needle.
[SPEAKER_02]: She takes the needle in her small grasp before quickly catching up to her brothers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Leo, Nikkei and Frankie.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now orphans are thrust into a world, they are only just beginning to know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Set sail, episode one, a day like any other.
[SPEAKER_05]: Now, fast forward three years.
[SPEAKER_05]: Survival is the name of the game.
[SPEAKER_05]: How do you keep them starving on the street?
[SPEAKER_02]: Stealing.
[SPEAKER_02]: The vendors market in the town of Treen is a comfortable sunny day in Baitsummer, and the street is crowded with people looking to stop their cages.
[SPEAKER_02]: After I enter the street, there are three children peaking out over the corner of the building hiding in the alleyway, 13, 9 and 7.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are skinny and dressed in warm clothing, with a look of longing alight in their eyes as they gaze into the market.
[UNKNOWN]: What?
[SPEAKER_03]: A butcher?
[SPEAKER_03]: There's so early in the month, we never see butcher's assailee.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's a merchant, Frankie.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not a butcher.
[SPEAKER_03]: Look at his clothing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Too fancy for a butcher.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, merchant butcher, I don't can make you here to be an angel from the heavens else.
[SPEAKER_03]: Still gladly take that pig.
[SPEAKER_03]: All my days of scraps and steel bread will finally be over.
[SPEAKER_03]: You could have left that pig if you tried.
[SPEAKER_03]: I might not be able to carry it, but I can still knock you cold for your mockery.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'd like to see you try.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've done it before and I'll do it again.
[SPEAKER_03]: Come here.
[SPEAKER_08]: Stop!
[SPEAKER_08]: We are not going for the pig.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're not my father.
[SPEAKER_03]: But why?
[SPEAKER_03]: We could eat for days of that pig.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe even weeks.
[SPEAKER_08]: That pig would last us at least a month, Frankie.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not if I have anything to say about it.
[SPEAKER_08]: We can't go after the pig because it's too big.
[SPEAKER_08]: We'll be caught and hanged before we even think to move it.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's right at the front.
[SPEAKER_08]: We've never get away with it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Now that chicken there on the other hand, that would be much easier.
[SPEAKER_08]: Or perhaps the roast on the corner of the table.
[SPEAKER_03]: A pig would be more delicious than a chicken!
[SPEAKER_03]: Get over the pig, Frankie!
[SPEAKER_08]: Listen you too.
[SPEAKER_08]: We have to work together on this.
[SPEAKER_08]: We don't know this new merchant and he looks like he could be from a larger town with the way he carefully watches the street.
[SPEAKER_08]: He seems smart, so we must be smart if we're to be successful.
[SPEAKER_08]: Here's what we're going to do.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'll talk to the merchant and pretend to be interested in his stock and where he's from.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'll keep his attention away from the chicken.
[SPEAKER_08]: McCail, when I give you the sign, you sneak from the other side of the table and quickly grab the meat.
[SPEAKER_08]: Make sure not to be seen or make a sound.
[SPEAKER_03]: I-I can't Leon.
[SPEAKER_08]: Frankie, you go look at the wares on the table across from us.
[SPEAKER_08]: If things go south, you need to create a distraction.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ah, how come I never get to do the stealing?
[SPEAKER_03]: Because you're too reckless and loud!
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I, I oughta.
[SPEAKER_08]: Heh, heh, heh, heh.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know, the best that create in chaos, Frankie.
[SPEAKER_08]: Can I count on you?
[SPEAKER_03]: Hmm... Heh, one grand distraction at your service.
[SPEAKER_02]: get.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_02]: The children disperse.
[SPEAKER_02]: Leo slowly looks around.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pretending he's enjoying a walk, while making his way to the target.
[SPEAKER_02]: Frankie gives him a head start and then walks out, admiring the trinkets for sale and making her way to the cellar across from the meat pageant.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mikael run in and through the crowd laughing, pretending to be playing before he dips into another alley close by.
[SPEAKER_02]: He picks up a couple of rocks and scoots closer to the endless table, sitting on the ground and plays with the rocks, as Leo approaches the merchant.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hello, good sir.
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