[triumphantly]

You were wrong, Soothsayer! [wields sword] We sail to victory tonight. Your magic panda is clearly a fool!

[angrily]

Are you certain it is the panda that is a fool?! You just destroyed your ancestral home, Shen!

A trivial sacrifice... [sticks the sword's tip into a nearby fire, then pokes the burning tip to a map of China, which bursts into a spreading flame] when all of China is my reward.

Then will you finally be satisfied? Will the subjugation of the whole world finally make you feel better?

[sneers]

It's a start. I might also convert the basement into a dungeon.

[Her anger spent, Soothsayer approaches the peacock, who is standing at the balcony with his back to her.]

The cup you choose to fill has no bottom. It is time to stop this madness.

[chuckles]

Why on Earth would I do that?

So your parents can rest in peace.

[bitterly]

My parents... hated me. Do you understand? They-- they wronged me. And... I will make it right.

[sadly]

They loved you. They loved you so much that having to send you away killed them.

[pause]

The dead exist in the past. And I must tend to the future. [to his gorilla guard] Set the Soothsayer free. She is of no use to me.

[heartbroken]

Goodbye, Shen. I wish you happiness.

Happiness... must be taken. And I will take mine.
[The gorilla guard leads the Soothsayer out]