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Reckless the screenplay pt.3 (untitled 5th novel)

We see a forest that appears to be coated in silver. Every leaf, the moss on the ground, is created in great detail, but still and lifeless.

Voiceover Joie: Tell me a story, Maman.

Voiceover Fox: (chuckles softly) Of course.

A set of tiny fox paws steps into the picture. Where they touch the ground, the silver melts away to reveal the vibrant colours underneath.

Title card for season 5, episode 1.

A SCHOLAR with thin hair and glasses sits at what looks like a table at an inn. His small leather notebook lies forgotten in front of him as he listens to the MAN in front of him, who we can see from behind wearing a shirt from a material that appears to have scales on it.

Man (in an accent that sounds Eastern European but that we can't quite place. Also, his voice sounds familiar): Drunk on his countless victories, the king abandoned fate. He forgot everything he owed his most powerful ally and how the hope of their people depended on him. He murdered the Jade Goyl and sealed his own fate and that of his people.

He lifts a glass of liquor to take a sip. The camera stays aimed over his shoulder at the scholar. Meanwhile, the scholar gathers his bearings. He clears his throat and closes his notebook.

Scholar: Fascinating, how... different clans all have their own ways of telling myths. Well, this is... certainly not a version of this legend that I have encountered before. Usually there tends to be a lot more brotherhood between the king and the Jade Goyl. And a lot more of the Jade Goyl... not dying.

Man, with a bitter snorting noise: If only happy endings happened in real life.

He places a handful of coins on the table and gets up.

Man: Good luck with your little project collecting Goyl legends. Though who knows how long the Goyl are going to last under Kami'en's attitude.

The camera follows him from behind as he slings a leather backpack over his shoulder and leaves the inn. He steps outside, his face hidden from our view in the light of the dying day. As he heads down a deserted part of the street, we hear the thumping of hooves on the ground getting closer to him. He stops as he hears this, slightly tilting his head back. The gesture is both resigned and relieved.

Man: A small comfort. I must have been getting closer than it felt like if you have decided to come for me eventually.

Behind him, TOSHIRÓ comes closer, still in the centaur shape in which we encountered him first. He looks at the man with mild curiosity.

Toshiró: I should have known that there is no sneaking up on you.

Man: Experience. I have gotten familiar enough with the stench of Elves.

He turns around, but we don't see the face we expected in connection with the familiar rough, accented voice and the lizard leather clothes. We recognise NERRON'S facial features, but with his pale skin, black hair and malachite green eyes, he appears to be human. There is a tiredness in his face we haven't seen there in its stone form.

Nerron notices Toshiró's curiosity at his appearance and pulls down the collar of his shirt a little. Underneath the gold chain with the Jade amulet we have seen him wear since season 2, we get a brief glimpse at a leather cord that seems to be interwoven with hair and stones. We will later find out that this object merely causes the illusion of human appearance as long as it is touching his skin and he is still Goyl underneath.

Nerron: Witches are efficient, just don't ask about the materials they use. But how about you get to what you came here to do.

Toshiró: And what do you think that is?

Nerron slowly reaches for a knife on his belt, the motion angled away from Toshiró's view. His bitter grin is more of a feral bearing of teeth.

Nerron: What, do you need me to describe how you could kill me? Why don't you just go ahead, nobody here will stop you. If you take off my necklace and they see what I am, they will even thank you. And I... I know that four years looking for someone without finding any trace are nothing to a bloody immortal-

Toshiró: The immortal understands better than you might suspect. And now you expect to be killed so you can't continue this search? I assure you, I don't plan on playing into Spieler's hands like that. Quite the opposite, actually.

Nerron's hand trembles and tightens around the hilt of his knife. He doesn't trust Toshiró, but at the same time desperately needs hope.

Nerron: Even if I did believe you want to help me - what's in it for you?

Toshiró: Will Reckless could be a powerful asset to Spieler and his allies. My price will be paid if you manage to find him and convince him to come back with you. The second one will be up to you, but I can help you with the first.

Toshiró stretches out his arm to Nerron, offering him the item in his hand. It's a glove covered in golden scales and we have seen one just like it being used by Orlando Tennant. As soon as he lays eyes on it, we can see in his face that Nerron recognizes its purpose; his hand sinks down from his knife as he steps toward Toshiró.

Toshiró: Spieler can erase traces he left, but there is deeper magic in this world than him and myself.

Nerron: Very optimistic of you to just bring this, expecting it to work.

Toshiró: You have spent the last four years looking for someone who left you behind just because you want to make sure the people who want him dead don't find him first. I am not optimistic, I am merely observing facts.

With shaking fingers, Nerron takes the glove and carefully pulls it over his right hand. It's impossible to tell whether he is more afraid of the glove not working or of it working. But there is no going back for him now. He braces himself and raises his hand with the glove to his chest.

A golden, softly glowing string appears in the air, starting from Nerron's heart. Nerron lets out a shaky sigh at the sight of it, Toshiró's presence forgotten for a moment. We remember these strings have been described as standing for "true love, selfless and as deep as the ocean" and until this moment, Nerron wouldn't have quite expected himself capable of it. Even though the entire length of the Golden Yarn isn't visible, we can clearly see the direction where it disappears into the darkness. Directions to the person the Yarn leads to.

When Nerron turns to speak to Toshiró, there is nobody there anymore.

[jorgerisso1]

Lee Marvin Y Toshiró Mifune en "'Hell un the Pacífic'' ''Infierno en el Pacífico de 1968. Los dos actores que por ese año estaban en la cumbre de su carrera interpretan a dos soldados , uno norteamericano y otro japonés perdidos en una isla desierta del pacífico en plena ll guerra mundial, ambos trataran de sobrevivir con astucia y mucha estrategia. Filmada en las hermosas islas de Palau , con excelente fotografía y con interpretaciones colosales, soberbias de estos dos grandes actores, su director John Boorman exprime al máximo la historia. (Esta para ver en yotube, https://youtu.be/atzP6hPJQ_g lamentablemente esta en castellano, yo la tengo por suerte en mi colección privada y en su idioma original (inglés), también se puede descargar de servidores de la red.)