Teaser

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CAPTION: TAMLAND IN CRISIS

PRINCE VARNAK: The man I am to meet in Freeport is a king himself.

MORDECAI, sword-fighting with someone, lunges forward triumphantly.

CAPTION: A SECRET MISSION

VARNAK: We'll have to travel incognito.

TSENESHI WOMAN, smiling, to MARKET TRADER: A certain amount of bruising is to be expected.

MARKET TRADER, holding WILLIBALD up with a dagger: Move and you're dead.

CAPTION: A DEADLY ABDUCTION

VARNAK, to MORDECAI: Don't worry. We'll find him.
MORDECAI: You had better.

CAPTION: THE PERFECT TIME FOR A BOAT TRIP

VARNAK, indicating a river barge: The Pride of Tamland.

VARNAK, shouting: Do you think I like this?
MORDECAI, quietly furious: Yes, I think you do, Highness.

MORDECAI, angry and scared: I have nothing if I have no magic. Nothing!

Great lock gates swing open, revealing an idyllic landscape bathed in golden light.

Brief flashes of:

A stocky shaven-headed man with a chin-beard:

Three young women, clearly sisters, bent over a book:

A big man with grizzled hair and a bulbous red nose:

A thin, ascetic-looking teacher eyeing four riotous male students disapprovingly:

A woman swathed in black gown and veils:

MORDECAI, sitting on a bed with his head in his hands.

MORDECAI, V.O.: Please be alive.

CAPTION: TWO MAGICIANS...AND A BOAT

The barge glides majestically down the river in the declining sunshine.

MORDECAI, V.O.: Oh, trust me, your Highness...this is only the beginning.

CAPTION: COMING SOON TO AVEVALE.ORG

WILLIBALD, tied to a chair, gag hanging loosely about his neck: Art tha minded to feed thy prisoner, then?