Catherine & Shamir A / houses.fedatamine.com

Shamir, Catherine enter the scene

Catherine

Hey.

Shamir

We don't need to have this conversation.

Catherine

You don't know what I was going to say!

Shamir

Something about our vastly different approaches to life.

Catherine

Fine, then. We don't need to talk about it.

Shamir
...

Catherine
...

Catherine

Actually—

Shamir

Really I—

Catherine

Sorry, you go first.

Shamir

I was gonna say I'd hear you out.

Catherine

OK. Let's talk about it. I will be faithful to Lady Rhea until I die.

Catherine

If I had to choose between you and her, I would choose her every time.

Catherine

I assume that disqualifies me from being your partner.

Shamir

Between you and Rhea, I'd choose you.

Shamir

But between you and me, I'd choose me.

Shamir

That probably disqualifies me from being your partner too.

Catherine

Well, no. I'm quite fond of being alive. I don't intend to sacrifice my life, either.

Catherine

If it came down to you or me, I'd choose... Huh.

Shamir

What's wrong?

Catherine

Nothing. You're not like the rest of the knights.

Catherine

Maybe someday you'll have to take a path that diverges from ours.

Catherine

What if we went to war with your country?

Shamir

Heh. It is a possibility.

Catherine

Maybe I shouldn't be thinking like that.

Shamir

The future is one of the great mysteries of life.

Shamir

We can worry about it when the time comes...

Shamir

But until our paths diverge, you're my partner. And I couldn't ask for a better one.

Catherine

You got that right! I'm the best there is.