Trevor: Anil, my friend! Could you spare me a moment of your time?
Anil: ?
Trevor: I shall take that as a "yes"!
Anil: *rolls eyes*
Trevor: You see, Her Highness assigned me to inform everyone of their duties in the upcoming days, and I would
like to inform you-
Anil approaches Trevor.
Anil: *places hand over Trevor's mouth*
Trevor: Mm?!
Anil: ...
Trevor: Mph mm-mph mmm-mn??
Anil: *takes out a sheet of parchment and writes on it*
Trevor: Hm? What did you write? Let me take a look... "You talk too much. Goodbye."?
Anil: *nods*
Anil leaves.
Trevor: Wait! Anil!
Trevor runs off-screen.
Trevor: You were assigned to do kitchen duty this week! Come back!!
Trevor: Anil, my friend, I have something I wish to ask of you.
Anil: ...
Trevor: I promise I will be quick about it.
Anil: ...
Anil begins to walk away.
Trevor: Wait! Please! Stop!! Please hear me out, I beg of you! If you do not wish to fulfill my request, I
promise you will not have to speak to me ever again.
Anil: *points to mouth and shakes head*
Trevor: Yes, yes, I know you cannot speak! Please take this seriously! As I alluded to before, this is my
request: Could you please teach me sign language?
Anil: ! ... ?
Trevor: I assume you are wondering why I would ask this of you?
Anil: *nods*
Trevor: Well, the other day, you informed me that I spoke too much. So, I thought that if I learned how to sign,
you would not have to hear me speak as often as before. Does this sound satisfactory to you?
Anil: ... *nods*
Trevor: Excellent! Thank you so much, Anil. I promise I will listen to your teachings to the best of my
ability!
Anil: *points to mouth*
Trevor: Yes, yes, I know!!
Trevor: [Friend Anil! Good today you?]
Anil: [Good try. It's more like: "My friend, Anil. How are you today?"]
Trevor: I see! Hold on, let me try again. [My friend... Anil. How... are you... today??]
Anil: *nods* [Good job. You're a quick learner, Trevor.]
Trevor: [Thank you. You good teach.]
Anil: [Haha, almost got it. But I still understood what you meant. Oh, I've got a fun one to teach you. Look.
@%!*]
Trevor: Oh? What does that mean?
Anil: [It's another way you can say "fu-]
Trevor: I will choose to not use that, thank you very much!!
Anil: [Why not? It can be useful sometimes.]
Trevor: I fail to see how that can be useful in any situation.
Anil: [Okay, okay. Here, I'll teach you an actual useful one. Watch. "I love you."]
Trevor: Anil, I swear if you're tricking me-
Anil: *shakes head* *puts hand over heart*
Trevor: Hmmm. I assume that meant "I love you"?
Anil: *nods*
Trevor: Allow me to try. [I... love... you.]
Anil: [Good job. Go ahead and try again.]
Trevor: [I love you.]
Anil: [I love you too, Trevor.]
Trevor: Gah! Anil, please!!
Anil: [Sorry, Trevor. You're just easy to tease.]
Trevor: *sigh* Still, I appreciate you doing this for me, Anil. These lessons have been of the utmost help.
Anil: [Good. I'm glad I could help.]
Trevor: Anil!
Anil: [Trevor? What is it?]
Trevor: I have an urgent matter I wish to discuss with you.
Anil: [Am I on kitchen duty again?]
Trevor: I- Well, yes, you are, actually. But that is not the point! There are more urgent matters at hand.
Anil: [More important than kitchen duty?]
Trevor: Anil, please take this seriously. I am trying to tell you something important.
Anil: [Sorry, just poking fun at you. Go ahead, Trevor. I'm listening.]
Trevor: You see, I have perused the Medean Castle library some time ago and taught myself more sign language on
my own.
Anil: [Oh, really? Let me see how much you've learned, then.]
Trevor: I apologize if I get something wrong, but here we go. [Anil, I... believe you are... smart... and
patient... and a good... friend. I admire you... a lot. And that... is why I... will give you this.]
Anil: !!! [You're proposing to me?]
Trevor: *nods* [I want to... spend the rest... of my life... with you. Will you... take my hand... in
marriage?]
Anil: *nod* *nod* *nod* [I love you. I love you. I love you!]
Trevor: [I love you too, Anil. I love you too so so much.]
Sam: Anil! Hey!
Anil: ? !!
Anil leaves.
Sam: What the-?! Hey, come back!
Sam chases after Anil. Scene transitions to the castle gardens.
Sam: *huff* *huff* Anil, where are you?! Krista needs you for something! Man, not here either... Anil!!
Sam leaves the scene. Anil enters as soon as Sam is gone.
Anil: ...
Anil, thinking: Who's bright idea was it to recruit the Prowling Tiger into this army? Oh, Oreg, he's even
bigger than the rumors say...
Sam re-enters the scene.
Sam: Found you!
Anil: !!!
Anil runs off.
Sam: Get back here, you!!
Sam: Anil, we need to talk. Er. Sign. Or, uh... Look, you know what I mean!
Anil: [Nope.]
Sam: What do you mean "nope"?! Look, I just wanna know why you've been avoiding me.
Anil: [There is no way I'm going to get along with the Prowling Tiger.]
Sam: Uh, the prowling what now?
Anil: [The Prowling Tiger! The infamous mercenary who's been killing bandits up and down southern Oregot.]
Sam: Alright, hold it, hold it, hold it! I have SO many questions. First off, people have heard about me? They
have a NICKNAME for me??
Anil: [What did you expect? You've taken out thousands of bandit camps the last five years at least!]
Sam: Hundreds? Maybe. But THOUSANDS? Someone out there's exaggerating things. And what was that about being a
mercenary? Sure, there was some mercenaries who taught me stuff, but that was it.
Anil: [So you at least admit to killing a mass number of bandits?]
Sam: Yeah, but it's not like I wanted to be famous for it. I had my own reasons for doing what I had to do.
Anil: [Like what? Money? Enacting justice?]
Sam: Protecting someone.
Anil: ?
Sam: Bandits kidnapped Krista years ago. I couldn't let that happen ever again.
Anil: ...
Sam: Not just her either. Everyone I love will not get hurt by bandits again. Not on my watch.
Anil: [Just be thankful you didn't make your way up north. Because if you pulled the same thing there, you'd
have bandits out for vengeance against you too. And one of those bandits could've been me.]
Sam: What?
Anil: [We're done here. Bye.]
Anil leaves.
Sam: Now, hold on! ... So, he was a bandit too, huh...?
Ecco: Alright, I've gone through the numbers. With Her Highness oh so kindly providing rations, weapons, and all
other essentials, we've got an average of 5000 gold to set aside for whatever.
Anil: [Not bad at all. It's been a long time since we've had this big of a budget to work with.]
Ecco: Yup! You know what that means?
Anil: [Saving up for a rainy day for once?]
Ecco: Nope! We're gonna treat ourselves today, Anil! We absolutely deserve it after all our hard work.
Anil: [Why am I not surprised?]
Ecco: Come on. Live a little! You've been so focused on getting jobs done.
Ecco: You're gonna die from stress before you're forty.
Anil: [I don't think that's how that works.]
Ecco: Trust me. If you don't let yourself indulge in the good things in life, you're gonna end up regretting it
later. Speaking of indulging, there's this bakery in town that looked like it had the most delicious pies and tarts. And you're
gonna try them with me whether you want to or not!
Anil: [Fine, fine. Let's go.]
Ecco: Anil! We got paid today, and you know what that means!
Anil: [Another day to splurge, I'm guessing?]
Ecco: You know it! Lemme just get my coin pouch then we can- H-Huh?
Anil: [What's wrong?]
Ecco: No, no, no, no. You can't be serious...! My pack's got a hole in it, and my coin pouch isn't in it. And-
Anil: [Calm down. We'll just retrace our steps. I'm sure we can find it.]
Ecco: R-Right.
Scene transitions to outside.
Ecco: Found it! Man, that's a relief.
Anil: [Good. Ready to go on your shopping spree, then?]
Ecco: Erm...
Anil: [Something wrong?]
Ecco: Um, n-no, I... I just remembered I got other stuff to do today! Gotta go!
Ecco leaves the scene.
Anil: ??
Scene transitions to somewhere else outside.
Ecco: Come on, come on... My Tiger Amulet has to be here somewhere... It can't be lost. It just can't...! Maybe I
should just... leave it be?
Anil: [Hey, Ecco. This is yours, right?]
Ecco: My Tiger Amulet! Anil, thank you, thank you, thank you! Where did you find this?
Anil: [Turns out it fell out of your pack while we were at the bakery the other day.]
Ecco: The bakery? Man, I knew I should have checked there first. But what were you doing there in the first place?
Anil: [You seemed anxious lately, so I wanted to get you something to cheer you up. The baker recognized me, so
she asked me to give the amulet back to you.]
Ecco: Thanks again, Anil. This is a huge load off my mind.
Anil: [Well, you seem in good spirits now, so I'll be taking this slice of cherry pie the baker gave me.]
Ecco: You got cherry pie?! Let me have a bite!
Anil: [Nah, this is all for me. Besides, aren't you the one who said I should indulge myself?]
Ecco: Ugh, fine. Whatever.
Anil: [Here, I'll let you have a bite if you tell me something.]
Ecco: What is it?
Anil: [Why weren't you honest about losing your Tiger Amulet from the start? You know I would've helped you look
for it.]
Ecco: I know, but I didn't really know if I wanted to find it again or not.
Anil: ?
Ecco: That amulet was given to me by the bishops back when I was a monk. I'm not a devout follower of Oreg
anymore, so what was the point of keeping it around, right?
Anil: [Right?]
Ecco: But at the same time, it reminds me of all the friends I made back at the temple, so it's still important
to me. I don't really know what to do with it...
Anil: [Judging by your reaction when I returned it to you, I think the answer's pretty obvious.]
Ecco: Yeah, you're right. I'll have to keep it somewhere safer from now on.
Anil: [Good. For your honesty, here's your reward.]
Ecco: Lemon tart?! You had this on you the entire time?
Anil: [Yeah. The baker gave me both. Just thought I'd mess with you a bit.]
Ecco: Ugh, you're the worst. But... thanks, Anil. Really.
Anil: [Of course.]