A few minutes later. Atop a gate. There is a platform closer to the centre. Faint fog still appears with the war shouts.
Enter WIZLAW wearing armour, a lightly armoured COURTIER & GUARD
WIZLAW: Didst thou hear that loud crash once again?
COURTIER: Aye, I did. I am telling thee they have some sort of siege equipment.
WIZLAW: They cannot. Where would they have got it from? We do not even possess it!
COURTIER: I know not!
[they overlook the area past the palisades]
GUARD: [to WIZLAW:] Is thy family safe m'lord?
WIZLAW: Yes, it is. Why dost thou... ask?
GUARD: Not even an hour ago, I-I saw a woman who looked like thy wife along with what I took to be her daughter.
WIZLAW: [he pauses] Art thou sure it was Margareta?
GUARD: I do believe so. If it was not her, gouge mine eyes and cast me blind into a pit.
[a foul and eerie ring/sound is heard]
WIZLAW: This cannot... be true.
GUARD: I swear on any deity that thou worships that I did indeed see them.
WIZLAW: [he becomes lightheaded and breathes harder] O, dear God. If Thou is truly the One, I pray thee to forgive me. I have broke thy law and denied thy words of "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me". If the gods that I worship and answer to are false, please show mercy upon me in thy judgement.
GUARD: My liege, what art thou saying?
WIZLAW: [he looks at GUARD and almost loses balance but leans on a palisade] Thou art a villainous individual.
GUARD: Why I? Wert thou not just rambling on about worshipping other false gods?
WIZLAW: Villain! [he sits leaning against the palisade]
GUARD: Villain, villain, villain. How am I th'villain?
WIZLAW: Ho! I do retract my words from thee. I feel as if some stark force is tugging mine uvula. Prithee, I do beseech thee to help me find them. I will do anything. Please, if thou finds them, I will make thee my marshal. Anything for them to be back safe!
[another crash from the catapult is heard and the stage turns black]
[Exeunt
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The Tragic Fall Of Wizlaw, The Count Of Rügen
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