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Jennifer

as he recounted yeah

then pray God it may not be too late

senior polo

further god the hates liars above all

things do not die with the weight of

these lies crushing your immortal soul

man's take the world as they find it

even if the priest wants to keep them in

ignorance I went to China to the court

of the Great God I served him I was

proud to serve him I fought alongside

him and I ruled under him see for

yourselves have a place

you

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you see this small piece of stop

one day it will blow up your world the

truth

that is what I brought back the truth

not lies not fairytales the truth

but not the old truth I only told you

half what I saw

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in recent years the earth has been

decimated by famine plague and war and

one of those water between Genoa and

Venice two men have been in prison and

being held to ransom one of them is

rusty GL o of Pisa

the other is the nation my name is Marco

Polo it will make peace soon how long

will they keep us what do you think your

chances are of us being freed I think

we'll stay here until someone pays a

ransom for us how long would that take

and how can we be sure even then that

they will let us go we may never get out

of here don't you understand

prison is at the end of the world really

I was put in prison once before

here in Genoa in China

you

you have been to China and to many other

places some places no one in Europe is

even heard of all of them up here in

your mind what if I told you I've been

to the center of the world but I've seen

the future no mine patients threat

my journeys aren't in here they began

when I looked across all those mosques

in the harbor at Venice when I was young

I wanted to know sheep they were and why

are they in being and what the men

seldom and see

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my father my uncle a Venetian thread who

would go to the ends of the earth in

such a profit all I wanted to know was

hands and middle strange and beautiful

things analogy don't touch their search

for profit in the end took them to where

no Venetian mark or any other man in

Europe had ever been

it is solid gold

the Great Khan of China Kubla Khan

himself gave it to us for safe passage

he is the grandson of genghis genghis

khan the greatest warrior the world has

ever seen

yes yes

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it was then that the new China was my

destiny that come with me I won't go

there we saw enough to know we could

make a fortune trading with them yes

they have silks and spices and plates

made of material so fine you can see

your hand through them they send

caravans of a thousand camels to trade

all over Asia they have gold and silver

and diamonds greatest craftsmen and

artists in the world cities so vast they

could be oceans

however the khan's empire is so rich he

is nothing from the west but we have

arranged the way to go back he has

herded the Pope and her Christian God

now he allows his Chinese subjects to

pray to any gods they please but Marco

if the true religion could be revealed

to him well while we make ourselves a

tidy profit on the side

it would be a journey to the other side

of the world that took us first to

Jerusalem for oil from the Holy

Sepulchre accompanied by two priests who

would journey with us to the court of

the great Kubla Khan the Saracens was

throw the sealant which would have made

our journey easier so we were forced to

travel overland despite its dangers but

I was young and feared nothing save

having to live a life in a stolen

accounting house

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our hardships had been many but we had

yet to climb the premier mountain the

roof of the world with the two priests

complaining bitterly at every step

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going no further hold the cam we will

bring him a hundred fries we ended up

with just two now you want to run back

to Venice with your tails between your

legs we're all going to die here the

journey is too high who knows

listen Kubla Khan exists you're all

merchants traded to take your word for

anything

hope we'll never have another chance

like this millions of souls to be

harvested the fate of the world changed

we promised him tricks Snuffy me all the

time in the mountains who died for sure

here and even if we don't no one knows

what's at the end of this journey we do

a chance to change the course of history

well beyond anyone's wildest dreams

buddy Schindler or a sane man by greed

all you believe in is called the pedal

eat your own son to his death in search

of riches I came of my own free will

well father it's risking your life for a

fairy tale he was there he saw the Khan

with his owners and did he see dragons

too huh and unicorns and horses with

wings what is he a liar a madman or a

fool are all three

let him go let him go we would have to

drag their worthless hides the pricks

were right maybe we will all die trying

cuts we should send the boy back all

those stories you told me about the land

you travel to what you saw in China I

want to see for myself

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Marco

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you came from there the roof of the

world yes that's where he left his

strength he had none left to fight the

theater when it came can you help him

there are herbs that won't lessen the

heat in his blood

beyond that it's in Allah's hands

there we go we must wait for uncle

Matthew wanted to leave me there and

carry on the journey but my father

refused four months no one knew if I

would leave on time you still want to go

to China with your father go pray and

think a lie you're still alive you know

how much further you still have to go I

mean what kind of well can you go again

the Pope himself blessed our journey we

have polio from Christ birthplace in

truth the Pope may be a great man in his

own land he's God's representative on

earth but puplic on was a vast empire to

give the great Alexander never dreamed

up what does your backward uncivilized

born has to offer him what if your

father has to offer him that he needs

when my father came back to Venice no

one believed him they said his stories

with Trevor's tears nothing

so you want to prove them wrong or is it

something else you want to see for

yourself if he spoke truth

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attacks on my cat that means you go in

but you don't come out again it's 45

days to the nearest well no villages

rachet after this stairs that there is

another desert just Asajj the Gobi

there's no way around then and to go

straight across

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what is that

it's a journal

the record of the route became the

things we saw for traders you would do

better working on your arithmetic uncle

mafia and if someone else finds it and

uses our route to make themselves watch

instead of us I will see you then

knowledge is power Marco and power leads

to wealth that is why we are here so

that the poro family becomes the

gatekeepers to the riches of China books

can be the most dangerous things in the

world Marco

whoever you think will read your

scribblings the people who find your

bones

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China

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like Hans army came this way Marco this

is what happens the city divides the car

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this way

huh

the horsemen turned out to be the Khans

cavalry sent by him to ensure safe

passage to his court if then has had

soldiers like that we were the conquer

General years ago if then he's had

soldiers like that we would have

conquered the world I'll go

why are there [ __ ] like that do you

think it makes them more powerful how

far do you think they can shoot when

they stick a knife in your back to shut

you up you will be asking what is the

handle made of who designed the blade

where did it come from it's filled with

powder but it shoots fire I am to be

your slave my masters every desire is my

only happiness we have enough for three

days the slave and I were to strike

sparks off each other as he's often away

with great friendships as this could

turn out to be

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how does it do that Chinese magic

that stung was only the first of the

wonders I was to see

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brothers

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the great characters of the Silk Road

that carried the wealth of China to the

engineer for another

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you

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but none could be greater than my first

sight of the greatest city in China

great city anyway Shan do the summer

capital of Kubla Khan come this way

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does that mean that boons or barbarians

yeah

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we were to meet Kubla Trenton of Genghis

Khan's command who had United many

nations and tribes under the Mongol

banner

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it up

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once inside prostrate yourself and touch

your forehead to the floor do not look

in his eyes do not let your breath touch

him when you leave walk backwards keep

your eyes to the ground

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you

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where the praises alas they were afraid

of the journey majestic they turned back

but we have oil holy oil from the holy

city

i order you to bring one thing and you

bring another yeah trinket blessed by

the Pope himself and is this a token of

the Pope's admission to me do you bring

me that true that is not in our power

excellency we are merchants trade good

it be I spoke and you did not hear the

Pope is heard all the nations in the

West have heard and while they think

they have a chance to turn you to their

religion you have nothing to fear from

them Shh how old are you to have such

wisdom 20 my lord the revered Genghis

was 13 when he began his conquests are

you a second Genghis thousand years ago

the Roman Empire ruled the world but

already I can see this is a much greater

why one flatters young man be sparing or

else the listener him I believe he's

made a fool of you think the saucer of

Kingdom has anything to fear from the

West not as long as they believe they

can convert you and your people are you

suggesting I had a hidden strategy and

asking for the priests sometimes the

correct answer is to make no answer that

young man should be taught a lesson yes

but look around you who will tell you

what you don't like to hear and isn't

that what we need to hear the most is

this how you hope to avoid my anger by

flattery no I spoke no flattery I've

seen wonders here but I don't think I've

seen a hundredths of what China truly

contains it would take a lifetime to see

that shall I grant you that what do you

think Baron Equus even if we had a

lifetime but we civilize this young

barbarian you would have more chance for

that we will return at once to Venice

majesty if that is your wish it is but

your son who speaks out so boldly let

him answer for himself be careful how

you answer I did not come here to trade

that came here to see an empire and then

laughed at my father for describing I

love and respect him but I did not come

all this way to turn around and go home

again young men say foolish things they

later regret especially this one but he

is of an age to know his own mind is he

not

he will stay here for your lifetime take

him under your wing launch engine and

others barbarian clothes making bathe

see what you can do with him who knows

we may find a use for him one day

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you have found favor with the Empress

she spoke in your favor that is both

good and evil fortune for the safest way

to survive in court is not to be noticed

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first is Domino's with the point

I'll stone advance follow you will live

here

make it your home

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although given your tongue you'd be

lucky to last a week

you wish to keep the same slave yes you

could do better but I'm used to I've

heard more enthusiastic responses

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you will come back with me Marco no I am

your father or have you found another

one now you always taught me life is an

adventure martyrs know what life can you

have here what life can I have without

you in Venice I have to do this knowing

I may never see you again

Nicola we must leave now or we will be

trapped here - waiting wait

if you must stay right right oh no you

seem a hooker men need proof

they despise me because I had man put it

all in there

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I was alone even worse I was now a man

cooked in two worlds and two schemes a

man from the West were to learn to be a

man from the East the East which seems

to enjoin stranger Mora gotten on the

Empress chabi

she rules the kingdom too how can that

be

don't your women rule no they cook it

with children but they don't rule the

men that laugh at him for listening for

a woman

why should he close his ears to her

because she's a woman the cards mother

piloted his way to the throne he owes

her more than anyone even Genghis Khan

revered his wives he split his kingdom

between the sons he had by then why

should it be otherwise because she's a

woman isn't a man twice as wise to have

a wise woman by his side what did you

just do I paid for the spices but money

is gold or silver this is money too it's

paper but it's worth as much as gold or

silver this sheet of paper which is

worth nothing in itself is worth as much

as gold or silver yes

but this paper be still where are you

hurt

ah

how can is not hurt if you believe in

Chinese magic enough

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it works

you must have believed what are these

lines see where the energy flows don't

your doctors know this no and how do

they treat you they don't they try and

the plan doesn't work they bury

yes China's rich and powerful and you

have many things that we don't but

you're a business center of the world

mmm it must be me God place the Pope in

his church they're the one true God the

Empire has room for a thousand gods

that's blasphemy

men still go to war here but not to save

other men's souls from what you've told

me those are the most terrible wars of

all

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try it hmm smell never tasted like this

this is true all of it

that's what - my father right before

they called him a liar in a man I

believe you I believe everything you

have told me even if I didn't it is

still the greatest traveler's tale yet

and my journals have been seen by

everyone in Venice no one there calls

the polos Liars now oh yeah I am a

writer a professional one I'm gonna say

in no modesty I I have quite a following

give me a further Mia Ruth the jello of

Pisa no no but then I've been abroad for

many years in my the pearl in the rose

sold a good many copies I never heard of

it never know mr. Machin

yeah I write romances and yours is a

wonderful story about a little short of

a and you were young in a strange land

facing an uncertain future might you not

have looked for someone apart from your

slave to share your life with

there was someone yes ah hey the court

she was brought to the court yes but

against her will

sitting inside

Kareema

the business of the country

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nothing

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ha

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lift your head lift your head turned

around she'll make a fine wife for the

Khan

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sistahs

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go

we can't be so hard we'll find another

bride for you

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you

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easy

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if you're very lucky yeah you'll be

chosen to spend one night in the Royal

bed no more one night only no matter how

much you please and for else and after

that night you'll be given to those he

chooses a soldier a general one of the

nobles someone at court

what are you going it's best if you do

not know if you don't see me again at

the very least it was instructive

meeting a barbarian if you put yourself

in danger aren't you putting me in

danger too the Khan may be all-wise and

all-seeing but he has his favorites one

of them is barren earth Mithen he is

rich and powerful and has all the

courtesans that he wants but that was

not enough for him he wanted my sister

she resisted him and he took his revenge

the gun permit says I told you the car

has his favorites

no one will whisper a word of this to

him did they do that I vowed to kill

Ahmed I couldn't get near him someone

else did but he failed Alma took

vengeance on all my clan he's still

taking it the bride-to-be of one of my

kinsmen Honshu has been brought here

under God and is locked in the house of

women what she will never see her again

she is now as much as saved as I am you

are not my slave a slave to a barbarian

who eats with his hands and believes

that only one God can rule a world as

fast as this

something very special tonight

excellency

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master your bidding to attend to the

console good

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if you come me where's the Baron going

who's digital madidus presents prince

has not returned from the hunt

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season

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the old city side rebellion they reach

the palace whitening worried to rebels

in the street

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the killing will go on you'll kill those

involved at night and those that near

them and then those didn't you then you

best let me go

before we come for me was treason was

treason

what was more treason excellent to steal

from in killin rapin subjects under the

shield of your name or to take arms

against such a man is that how you have

taught this barbarian to challenge his

con lor Dogma did what he did in your

name but your courtiers and generals

were too afraid to tell you the truth

matters excellency

that's all er candy perhaps they talk to

their rulers like that he's it not

enough to be the richest ruler in the

world would you not also want to be the

wisest

your flattery won't save you this time I

listen to you

now that's that is involved in treason

rebellion mutiny slandered one of my

right-hand men

is it choose me if not knowing or caring

what goes on under my nose roughs I

can't be civilized perhaps they all are

just monkeys even though sometimes

clever monkeys

like him

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oh it's true Loretha

did these things in my name and no one

told me you claim my protection for his

crimes and not even my generals had the

courage to Tony he took a boy to do the

boy about burying boy that could the

Greek can't be such a poor judge of men

that all the time my tummy

my tummy no sire it's lies all lies

oh it's true it's all truth it's true

how much else is true that that I don't

know yet

the Chinese are the most creative people

in the world as you can see I have many

still crossed Minh in my employ I would

say the most artistic are my

executioner's and they death by a

hundred slices for example they compete

with each other to see who can prolong

the execution most painfully you that

mercy is called for I order them to

slice through the eyes first then wear

the felling will not see what is

happening to it that perhaps it would be

more merciful to let him keep his eyes

what do you think

what are you hurt here what a

truth-teller may not a man be both huh

I've never know one you may rise you

defied your father to stay here I know

something about living in the shadow of

one's ancestors and you made your first

dangerous enemy congratulations it's a

sign of ambition I cannot keep Lord

pitaya in prison for long his clan is

too powerful I have to release him soon

and when I do you will need friends and

where will a stranger like you find

friends in China I wonder you are an

unusual young man you seem to have

talent and intelligence but it's still

early you owe no man your allegiance

I may have some use for such a man from

time to time

a man whose loyalty to me would be

personal and undivided and then I can

trust up to a point of course a man who

will speak the unshaded truth to me and

from me to others always and

lately you will become my man at court

or you will face Lord khajit eyes rage

alone and not get much older I think you

were told that to survive is to be

invisible he's not just asking me to

toward others can't he's looking for

French enhanced Empress fifty wives and

a different girl in his bed every night

but he's lonely this is the only kind of

friendship he can risk with someone like

me

if you become his friend you make

enemies of everyone else they will be

whispering that you only got close to

him to betray him and then when he dies

or you lose favor with the Empress they

sit on the dragon throne does that don't

convey anything to you I saved your life

and that risk my own to do it now I have

to know he's the rebellion finished

over when hawkmoth died you don't still

seek revenge it's done in balloon the

woman who's taken from your client you

don't still seek revenge from her it was

not the calm that we rose up against but

what was being done in his name her fate

is her fate she knows that you did well

Tamala a Khan with speeds very pleased

his orders that you be given as a sign

of his favor to someone worthy of you

someone for whom is whispered great

things are planned

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a gift from the Khan

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I know that she never loved me as much

as I loved her nuts first moment in all

the circumstances how could she

everything she did with grace everything

about her fascinated me

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she was this new world I was discovered

in all its strangeness

in all its variety

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that I couldn't wait to make a record of

it as I promised my father she was a

strange and is hard to understand as the

reason I know nothing about you and I

want to know everything to write in

those books

no no I've never do that I want to know

you because I want to know you then ask

Pedro Headroom he knows it all and I

also know you saved his life

you are his clansmen

yes paper and ink and a quill please

hurry what are you doing

Explorer writer writer

Explorer Oh Marco Marco all of my life I

have had to cuddle my brain to come up

with adventures a characters in love

stories to fill this this damned empty

sheet with the contents of a head just

as empty and here it is the prison cell

what I thought it was all over for me

you bring me the greatest stories I have

ever heard and you tell me they are true

they are through all of it then the

whole world's must hear it not just

finish let us do it do what rooster G

halo of pieces these travels of Marco

Polo it if he travels of Marco Polo by

rooster Genoa Pisa or the travels of

Marco Polo as told to rooster jailer

will be sending just just the travels of

Marco Polo we can talk later about what

to put on the title page yeah you the

girl and your slave it could like the

court enemies all around yes

is it

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we've suffered so much you want an end

to your pain I have the power to give

you that but first I need to know what

names did they get from you about the

rebellion he gave no names yet yet that

means you're still at risk and because

treason stains everyone it touches I'm

in danger too what treason the car knows

achma drove the people to rebel if they

rebelled once might they not do it again

if they think they have reason I'll talk

to the gun do you not understand what

you're dealing with you may lose your

head

I said you'd be lucky to last the week

here you survived that

but maybe not for much longer Lord cook

hot

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you won't get very far of that brand on

your neck I'm going to turn myself in

there's no point in the three of us

being executed I won't let you do that

sometimes a slave must make his own

decisions no what if I bring you down

with me that's a risk I'll take I need

you your difficult and insubordinate I

can't find my way here without you Lord

Chen Chu will protect you he's been in

court all his life do you think you

would have survived that his own

betrayals if it's my neck or his this

sense of him I own nothing

nor do you nor does Timlin we are as

powerless as each other it's only each

other that we can trust we're going to

survive we have to do it together

and aren't I have your clan now

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you

as a barbarian did you is slave to to do

his bidding he has the emphasis

protection as I do and as a thin Club to

keep out the cold it may be winter again

before you know March ensure that young

man of yours the Barbarian is he still

as headstrong as ever I think that

living at court and getting to know its

ways have tempered that a little clearly

because he still has their handsome head

on his shoulders

despite his enemies it is time for him

to prove himself and his loyalty trade

trade trade means secure roads rivers

free of pirates the city controls the

trade routes in the islands of the East

Spice Islands spices worth more than

gold what are the Spice Islands how many

of them are there what did the spices

only grow there this is not a geography

lesson this is a diplomatic briefing the

governor of this city has been talking

to men who do not love their Emperor if

we treat this man as an outright enemy

he made the side he has nothing to lose

and just launched a rebellion but if we

ignore his disloyalty others may be

encouraged to question my authority

Lord tension others think this might be

a twisting path that you with your

talent for words and flattery might be

able to negotiate it means a long river

voyage and on a river so vast it could

easily swallow up half your West do you

think you could tear yourself away from

my presence to accept such an assignment

only to see excellence if the rest of

the kingdom is as happy under its

Emperor's rule is here what do you think

law judge yeah we trust this barbarian

with such a delicate mission

a long journey for you well I take care

of the loose threads in this tapestry

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you want to justice and what is that

then to pain here it is

no I want you to meet Marco Polo Marco

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hey this is my sister [ __ ] I knew how

this is Marco Polo he wants to know

everything about the world but first he

must learn the patience to seek it he's

different

yes the copic his noses but he's good to

me and he loves me now go searching

she's alone here too except for me she

gets older she'll need a protector one

with power one who can take care of her

interests she'll have one of me if I

don't come back from this journey you'll

know you're free to find someone to take

my place someone with the power to

protect cancer but I will come back

yes

your destiny and you are not at odds

in your country are there slaves

lots men live like slaves whether or not

the bottom song will you ever go back

why when there's so much of the world to

see I think perhaps you will go back

well I should like to see how strange

your world is and what marbles it

contains you can't talk like this you

know that do you miss it it's fading

like a dream only half remember is it

beautiful it's one of the most beautiful

places in the world even if all anyone

can think about those make money it all

seems like a lifetime ago someone else's

life then don't you wish to see your

father again of course I do to make

peace with him for abandoning you here

isn't that what he did you never end the

journey the same person you set out you

discover things about yourself along the

way I don't judge him for what he found

and one day I'll hand him this

and I will tell Venice China is the

center of the world and that I Marco

Polo's son of Nicola was dead in the

service of the great car

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is this a jest or an insult I'm supposed

to deal with a barbarian and a boy I

speak for the Khan in his name with all

his powers the lord of heaven and earth

knows your love for him but he fears

those who love him less have found

refuge in your city and that they may

stir the minds of idle men into thoughts

of rebellion

I give shelter to anyone who asks for it

my tent is over to all as was that of

the great Genghis we Mongols come from

many peoples after all when I returned

to court I hope to tell the Khan what he

has heard our lives

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and that is Governor stakes his neck on

I did not be easier just to ask him to

cut off your tongue and find two I doubt

even death but still that tongue of

yours at this pace we are going to find

out which you care to wager master

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a trick you tricked me barbarian the

Khan doesn't want your head he wants

those of the rebels why should I believe

you I swear it on my honor the Cardinals

you lured the rebels here to handle a

moment to him that you never listen to

them did you know in our case the mother

of diseased and feminine you'd do

anything to have her stolen anything you

tell him that isn't that the truth this

is not a trap

the only trap is the one that you spread

on the enemies at the car is that not so

safe passage for me and my family for

all why should loyal to be punished

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you see

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it was a test and good well I there's

only one thing is certain as today's

victory tomorrow I will need another and

another after that and what is most

certain of all trust no one

you steal my secrets give them to my

enemies you become my enemy no no no I

write down all that I see in your empire

not to steal its morals and its wonders

but so there may be a record for

all-time wonders what wonders stone with

burns powder the church fire and kills

the pebble that always faces not paper

worth as much as gold wonders these are

wonders these are marvels you see them

every day so you forget how

extraordinary they are you learned

everything that ginger can teach you and

today you proved yourself the city needs

a governor I can trust your first

official duty is to have them killed

ah spare their lunch today they will

surely strike at you tomorrow

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you

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it will be safe for you to return to the

palace those loose threads have been you

knew what danger I was put in I was

saving us both from a greater danger did

you do that nor chunchu has been a court

all his life he could have survived

without his own betrayals it's his neck

or mine

normally not have ears but all those

within them do you're right you see I

can never ever be trusted that something

can always rely on oh don't look so

outraged it's a lesson you badly needed

was a ruler in my own right the power

over life and death but how long can an

and keep the favor of those with

absolute power I never knew at dawn

whether I'd see the sunset no one in the

court of Kublai Khan Dean no matter how

much favor you'd found with his

Emperor's the girl Timlin you sent for

her or took another wife why would I do

that

she might not have loved me but I did

love her and know she kept so much of

herself from me

while I was gone she tried to rest her

destiny back from the fates and escaped

to the palace to return to the man that

she really loved reason kill her your

truth must be dry and then it's all in

my Jordan off the pair in Venice you may

never see them again so what of it

remember this if you don't get ransom

then you'll die here your only hope of

immortality is me you the ink-stained

wretch with the Queen yes books do not

write themselves

I know do you think I wrote my journals

and who knows about them

apart from you in a few Venetians

what is it what is it you don't want to

have to live again

sund'ys

yeah yeah

demolition

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what is it

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so you tried to escape from the palace

she bribed to guard the palace guards

she could not have survived what they

did to her she's not my destiny you are

not my destiny for you wish it to be I

left him behind today the console just

came and she said she needed a protector

for her sister I thought she was asking

my permission to take another husband if

I didn't return but she was playing nice

yes she never forgot him chungu the man

she loved the man who was her destiny

that was stole it for me she never kept

that from you Marco no no she did

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but the sister

I will do my duty but I will keep my I'm

afraid it's too late

they have taken Kensei to the house of

women

so I felt above you failed no one they

both had their destiny and you have got

yours what else can a man do but be

faithful to his own destiny and can you

rail against the guards at your own

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the reply to the ambassador's your

excellency send to the Land of the

Rising Sun

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take him away what their heads they sent

back our ambassadors heads and lacquer

boxes the mongols may have taken China

by the sword they're clever enough to

know who it has to be governed by the

pen we were already an ancient

civilization when Genghis came the

genius of the cons has been knocked to

tear it down they respect the Tao and

the teachings of Confucius Kublai

himself has said that no man can tell

whether the god of Christians or of

Muhammad or of the Jews or of the

Buddhists is the greater so that each

man worship as he pleases hmm who you

may ask conquered whom all is written in

the annals so that all men know the

traditions which are the only guide to

present and future conduct how to live

in harmony with the world what one's

rights and duties are one of yours as

governor is to take care of these poor

and sick and those who cannot care for

themselves

you will also arrange for the schooling

of these these children here you will

make sure that the names of everyone in

each house are displayed at the door the

better to keep order you will build

watchtowers in case of fire and places

where men may go to to safeguard their

possessions if it breaks out you will

make sure that every man must know what

he must do to fight the fire to save his

own house and thus his own street and

thus his own City Daisy and Zach

Gockel a mouse I'm long since I'm sorry

when a man kills another man what good

does it do the dead man's family to kill

him to set a price for the murdered man

and make the killer work until his debt

is paid

you'll remember that the rule of law is

for all under heaven including yourself

but not for the Emperor because he used

the Sun of heaven

so how can it apply to him what is

thousands that big I'm to return the Sun

to earth once

I'm not to take any soldiers with me I'm

to surrender the keys of the city

we ruled like a prince now he's ported

back like a

you

you

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she had to die obedience must be total

or there's no order well our trust in

you was not betrayed you proved us

faithful of Governor as you were adept a

diplomat you rebuilt your city

strengthened its walls increased its

trade you kept our subjects safe secure

prosperous your name of course will

never grace the a knows how can we ever

admit you having a Burberry in such an

exalted position however it's dangerous

to let anyone rule in one place for too

long they forget they rule only about

our favor then they lose their heads

there may be another task for you now

Paulo

follow me tell me what do you think the

most dangerous weapon would be in the

hands of my enemy gunpowder no an army

huh knowledge knowledge these maps

reveal where my forts are the bridges

across my rivers my palaces my richest

provinces the hardest cities for me to

defend without such knowledge my enemies

are blind blind that I am blind about

them they're too many blank spaces on

these maps he's ours the Land of the

Rising Sun hundreds of years ago China

established colonies there but in time

these people became strong proud they

refused to accept that they were still

our subjects I sent ambassadors to them

demanded that they submit they cut their

heads off send them back to me in lack

of boxes they should be punished yes no

you need to know you know about this

kingdom who is its leader how many men

does he have would he make an alliance

with these Islanders against me in here

yeah how strong are these warriors is

there a genghis among them or would

sweep us away the way we swept away the

owl and there's urine and there soon and

the sea how far does the sea extend

these islands did these islands really

exist are they figment of someone's

imagination Mongolia

mongolia home for all the tribes united

by genghis came together above it men

say there was the kingdom of nagging

above that the kingdom of the snows they

exist who they really exist

what exists how fearful of them should

we be

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here is a land of flying dragons here a

land where men grow one huge foot which

they use to shape themselves from the

Sun here men with mouths in their

stomachs have you seen these things not

myself to the men who drew them seasoned

travelers told of it and travelers tales

are always true this is what men believe

what they've believed since time began

men should believe what they see what

juices in that field with things that

should be in fairy tales blank spaces

would be better no fill in the blank

spaces would be better still with the

truth friend or enemy knowledge

knowledge is always better where we find

someone we could trust it to fill those

spaces in with our fairy tales guesses

were lies whose eyes would be clearer

whose judgment will be unclouded whose

loyalty will be indisputable if only

because he has no protector

but the car his excellence is allowing

about them to leave the kingdom in his

wisdom he has decided that he can be

trusted this far how much would they

give in the West to know how to

manufacture gunpowder how we organize

our armies how far the Great Wall

extends they don't even have the stone

that points north once they do will our

borders ever be secure again perhaps

he's planned all along to betray you

gain your favor take back what he's

learned to his own King he has no king

but me can you be sure of that

excellence the Chinese call a stranger

law man but a friend a cooked man Oh

polo always be a rom an unknowable

always a stranger and a barbarian at

heart the great Genghis your lustrous

grandfather never let friendship get in

the way of his safety go

I know he hates polo that doesn't mean

he's not speaking good sense Chu and

also true when they plot against each

other I have no time to plot against us

you're the Khan your decision is the one

that matters if you can't trust him

Sophia let us stay blind and helpless

trusty Maps their show men who keep the

Sun of their heads with their feet while

our enemies installed us and plan our

downfall and so I began my journey for

the count

well we going whatever the consensus

when are we coming back when we found

what we were looking for what are we

looking for

we knew what would be the point of the

journey

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here were wonders beyond what I dreamed

of as a boy looking at those masks of

the ships in Venice wonders after

wonders worlds beyond world's a man-made

wall that seemed to girdle the very

earth itself

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new lands and also new people

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and new gods worshipped in new ways then

it made me ask whether the god I knew

could be the only one to rule a universe

so vast

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the more you see the more you learn

doesn't it make you want to see more

there's always another peek another

Valley and another one after that

north-south-east-west

I just wonder what makes you want to see

it all don't you do I have a choice

master what makes one man a traveller

and the other one nothing what makes one

content to spend his days in one place

or the other it's a living death

what 15 years I journey that the cons BS

to the ends of the earth

to where as far as my strength and my

good take me

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did your feet let me die here

get your bit you're here because your

Emperor commands you

you've defied Kubla Khan himself senator

Genghis

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you won't declare war against your con

the con is a world away I don't have him

this man will he be to my death although

he may lead his slave that I was given

to him as a slave could I give him my

loyalty out of my own free will

how can you be more to him when it's not

even Mongol he is more of a mongrel than

you are if only because he is not a

coward

what are you writing your last words no

food no no dying every day you have no

idea where you are or where we are going

if the white land exists I think we'll

find it if we go north here you can't

make it Marco

we cannot will not make it not this time

you know more about the world than

anyone but you cannot know it all no one

man can know at all turn back

save your life save all our lives

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so

you were it was time it would have been

great to know there was anyone beyond

her to see the white land with one

sunrise

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well-well-well

back from another voyage with more

trinkets I haven't forgotten that you

had me in prison all those years ago

barbarian soon I'll be hunting for you

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another journey another safe return then

it will what wonders have you brought me

now these are from the kingdom of the

knife they're endless forests there and

the earth is frozen all year run whoo

sometimes the peasants find huge animals

in it is big as elephants but with wool

hides

I thought you swore never to bring the

calm those travelers tales proof

excellent the people mainly live by

traffic I've taken an account how many

first they take for a year ah something

of the Venetian merchants son and you're

still what's this - liquid that falls

from the rocks but he gives off light

and heat their novelty nothing more

every time the Khan sent you to the ends

of the earth you come back to tell him

no you haven't reached it yet

that's the world go on forever if there

is an end I haven't found it

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his strengths gave out prepare the guard

to move when I give the word the car

really fell today drop his truck for me

I need to know how much longer he has to

live but it's forbidden to prophesize

the Khans death he's hot

we must be prepared for what it means

for all of us saw his hand tremble he

tries to hide it I bribed his doctors

but they won't tell me how weak or ill

he really is I risked my life to have a

court astrologer draw this up it says a

time of changes near there is a cycle of

fire and the cycle of Earth and a cycle

of water at the end of one year

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the Khan is getting weaker but I shall

die before him

oh all that calm we'll find it hard to

tell get advice from evil that's where

honest advisors like you would be needed

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he should not go to war with the Land of

the Rising Sun he sees reclaiming those

islands as a feat worthy of Genghis

himself he will fell and that will break

his heart also encourages that enemies

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wife why should you want one remember

the end the other one came to after Tim

all right they're always too many

journeys to make I never know from one

voyage to the next whether the car would

greet me with its smile or the blade of

an axe and what could a man like me

offer a wife an you guarantee she'd be a

widow but since I saw that girl you feel

your heart laboring harder and you're

strange aches in your bones and you're

short of breath is that me or you now

when you watch the dancers instead of

lust you have a pang of regret then you

hear a beautiful woman play the lute you

feel despair not a pleasure that's you

again hmm I bet it court all my life I

know I'll spend the rest of my life here

if you stay ahead of the executioner

this is my home these are my kinsmen

you're everything a father would be

Pedro brother but I need something more

you're lonely you're exiled from your

country it's too much to bear to be

exiled from your heart too

I will see what I can do the only

benefit that comes with age is to be

freed from desire account being father

to his people is still expected to have

a new young woman in his bed each night

I envied him for years

now I think it must be one of the

heavier burdens of kingship

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that's her you sure yes has she been

favored by the Khan yet ah this one's a

little bit special

as you can see hens I come for race your

head turn out

back this way perfection don't you think

her beauty is a tribute to you

congratulations thank you I'm saving her

for when the cons act I'd show signs of

growing Jaden or for a special occasion

like a military victory of course we

seem to have less and less of those I

hear that a doctor's saying he would not

take the field himself again

his health no doubt only a rumor but

the princes are getting ready to fight

for the succession we'll all need allies

in the days ahead

Marco Polo would be a good man to have

on your side for the last 15 years I've

been travelling in the service of the

car I know many years ago two girls were

stolen from their clan one was given by

the Khan to his favorite the other was

sent to the house of women your Tim

Allen's sister

of course

my sister told me about you before

Timlin died she asked me to look after

you to make sure you had a protector but

I didn't know when she meant it and by

the time I found out he was too late

I betrayed her but she would have found

a way to escape some other time

she never loved me I know that but she

didn't try to force her to you let her

be who she was what a hard stay where

she'd left it that was not always easy

no but

all those years in the house of women I

dream that one day its doors would open

and now this you

your destiny in mine seemed to be tied

together don't they yes yes they do

she's Tamlyn sister I know I want to

make her my wife you're asking your

slave for permission to marry that's not

how I think of you not and from the way

you talk to me no one could imagine you

think of me as your master so what are

we to want another them friends and when

I marry her kinsman brothers was it the

girl Kensei you were in love with or the

memory of her sister Tamlyn did you even

know yourself

writer of romances remember that is a

question anyone reading this story will

ask the Latin scribbler this sister or

the other one which one was it

Tamlyn never really gave herself to me

not all about and I knew and that one

look kins I would you are sure of this I

know my own feelings I look myself in

the eyes I look into the world no no man

is wives of brave enough to do that yes

yes I loved kins I for the way she

reminded me a tender smile a gesture the

way she would say something but I loved

her for herself I loved her for herself

and you married her I would except for a

death a thousand miles away

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your brother the Khan of the Persians

sends greetings to the khan of khans and

swears again his loyalty in sorrow he

reports that his beloved wife is dead a

princess of your clan

prostrate with grief he has dispatched

me here to bring this word to you and

beg the highest favour that the great

khan bestow on him or any man

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Marco Marco Polo 15 years ago

you fell in in Persia I was your doctor

so your father told the truth about the

splendors of China and you survived the

desert to see them for yourself now

you're a great man here a humble servant

and you've risen in the world -

bonesetter to that full of an ambassador

that is all he is here to choose another

wife for our car

his last wife's dying wish was that a

replacement be [ __ ] so what are you now

Venetian [ __ ] Chinese bit of the mo ah

the best parts of each I hope so and

cool I the con of Kars the pillar that

holds up the sky how is he

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strong enough to rule another 20 years

I'm caught sure enough to know not to

answer that question preferring to keep

my head on my shoulders instead of the

end of the spear a gift from the gods

Highness a chance to bind the person

can't even more closely to us that's not

what I think I think our loving brother

Khan is trying to throw us off guard

while he plots against us remember how

my succession was disputed how I had to

fight for the throne even though I was

the chosen one

the Khan is wise to look for enemies

everywhere even among those who protest

their loyalty most loudly especially

those our borders are under threat and

you've had to take the field twice in

the past year to put down internal

rebellion to listen to those who told me

to kill everyone raised on a China to

the ground destroy these cities turn

them into grazing for a Mongolian ponies

too late for that now we say when the

map is unrolled the dagger is revealed

it means real danger is often cloaked in

apparent good intentions such as this

request which seemed so flattering on

its surface

the Great Khan would decide this as he

chooses but angering the Persian calm by

refusing him or pleasing him another

that it should be he who is off his

guard not us

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you

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Oh

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no he chose her not Kenz I know what do

you mean no no it's an honor the

greatest you could be given I don't want

it

uh-huh you think you have a choice I'll

go to the car I'll explain to him that

she's meant for me she's meant for who

the converses to give her too but she

say no

how can she she has no say in this what

would you be these stay here wife to a

man who may not survive the fight for

the throne there you will be a princess

the princess that I made of you this is

a matter of state now the ambassador has

chosen to refuse would be to insult his

master and we need to keep him allied

with us do you think I care anything for

that you have to it's what you owe your

Khan I owe him these two now is when you

prove your loyalty and he owes none to

me you sought power this is the price I

didn't seek power that's not why I came

here but you stayed at court and rose in

the khan's favor I never asked for it

but you took it if you didn't want it

you should have tucked your tail between

your legs like your father had left I'll

go to the Empress I'll go to the Empress

to speak for me she is near death she's

more to concern her than your love

affair but she'll understand she

understands that the Empire may not long

survive her or comply

synthesis glory was that he conquered

all the kingdoms he fought who belies

tragedy is that the Empire's too fast to

hold together you will give her up

otherwise I'll tell the Khan and Empress

you're plotting treason and you know the

penalty for that favor or not

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we'll make another journey one greater

than you've ever made filled with more

danger more discoveries you will survive

it but but your heart won't what does it

mean

all I can tell you that this last

journey will be so dangerous

you'll be like riding a dragon be ready

to climb on its back

what are you doing Venice this is not

your concern

Marco this is not the way that's for me

to say and what choice were you going to

give me to stay and be punished in your

place or were you planning to take me

with you to be captured when you walk

after it I know more of China and what's

beyond it than anyone I'll find my way

to Venice

jerilyn did not make it to the front

gates neither will you the Khan is dying

the Empress is dying

you know what the enemies I have did you

think that I need to hear that when they

carried the Genghis to his grave they

slaughtered everyone that they met along

the way

20,000 men women and children then what

do we do stay here and wait for a knife

in her back you will the master I am the

slave Why ask me

and how did you intend to free her from

the house of women I sent someone to

tell her to be ready to leave you were

going to fight your way in and out again

single-handed like a hero in the Opera

this is the woman that I love and she

loves me enough to risk her life by

running away with you yes she told you

that annoyed

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I have my chart on astrology

I thought Marco Polo only believed the

things he could see it says I were born

my last great journey

on a magic carpet from the story the

Arabs tell it cannot be this way Marco

you cannot batter down the gates and

carry her off but if she is your destiny

would not fate have given you the means

somewhere to bring it about there are

deserts mountains hostile tribes disease

all manner of dangers between here and

Persia this young man himself then he

died on his way here crossing the roof

of the world I treated him myself

our embassy lost half of our men the

Ambassador nearly died

coming here your majesty such a journey

of month-after-month

would take a terrible toll and no matter

how beautiful a woman was when she set

out well yes he's right

all across China Tibet Afghanistan

before one even reaches Persian Wars

disease and bandits else you must go by

see around the Spice Islands

I'm the tip of India it will show my

Persian brother

my tender concerns for him I need every

Admiral I have for the invasion of Japan

which will happen as soon as the fleet

is ready winds are right mask who made

this map this one polo is what is yours

is it not I believe so

you will accompany the princess back to

Persia

thank you you still won't tell me what

ginger part it's not safe to know

anything I take everything I have sell

it quietly everything turns into joules

quickly please

a king's ransom in every pocket fedra

it is perfect

Venice huh perhaps you've given me a

taste for seeing what's beyond the next

mountain - what exactly are you up to

why has that slave of yours been so busy

on your behalf for the moneylenders it's

been confirmed as I'm to take printers

can't I to Persia no journey ever

grosses blanks a man should be ready for

whatever fortune throws his way I also

heard that you have a novel interest in

astrology for purposes of research or

something more my bones may be old but

my ears and eyes are as sharp as ever my

previous warning stands I will not

countenance treason I assumed you would

find out it was you who taught me how to

survive at court after all you said to

me once you can never never ever thrust

me

that's something you can rely on perhaps

I didn't teach you well enough

what perhaps you taught me all too well

how is it is it at all bitter

leave him be

if he poisoned you it was a my order no

talk of treason no interference I love

her

this is my chance to free her and myself

did we ever keep you captive

no no my best of teachers was my own

ambition it did that

hurry hurry hurry the Ambassador is

waiting I did not oh okay

be careful oh yeah oh yeah ken's I quite

like my guy come sit over here come sit

down

put this on all right now your princess

the princess of the red headdress

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he was pleased very pleased I'm going to

my desk don't say that you're sending me

to my death no I know the ways of the

court if he finds me plain I've been

locked away forever if he favors me the

otherwise will see me as a rival and try

to kill me play you brother what I've

done with you you say when do I set out

as soon as polo has everything in hand

the plans have changed

he'll be in charge of picking you by see

now you're in great danger because you

lose my protection I've saved your life

many times trying to survive try to keep

your head on your neck not for your sake

but for his Cantus empire be ward by one

man

perhaps that's not

but it is your duty to help him try your

duty remember he must not go to war with

the land of the rice is done again every

past him once already he thinks to

conquer them would be to complete King

curses conquests but it would be to show

our weakness and betray them his

excellence may trust Paulo to return and

not flee to the west with the secrets of

the Empire but think of the Persian Khan

majesty here I think of little else

you are the Khan of Khan's and may do as

you please but to send such a precious

gift in the hands of a barbarian his

barbarian has served me well as he has

served your China and not by sniveling

around this court whispering like an old

woman in my ears like some I know your

excellence is known for his wisdom and

for his insight into men's hearts if he

is sure that his brother Khan will not

take it as an insult and that he knows

the Barbarian well enough Oh Lord we

bring terrible news

the Empress

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when genghis his grandfather died all

the slaves who built his tomb and all

the guards who guarded it were killed in

order to safeguard the whereabouts of

his final resting place

who knows what kuba i will do in his

grief for his wife Margo that it's a

trick a ship of your own to India then

where the Venice taking my secrets with

you you of all people

when genghis lost his grandson my

brother mutagen at the siege of Bamiyan

he destroyed the city but first he

killed every living thing in it every

man and woman and child in recapped and

dog and caged bird every rat in the

gutter everything that took breath

slaughtered slaughtered that is how we

Mongols keep what we have that is how we

protect what is ours is this not so

it is so majesty you hate me is that it

that way you want to betray me because

you love Venice more I hardly remember

anything about Venice is that an answer

I can't trust my own brothers my own

sons

how should I trust you I will not betray

you I will return to my kind words right

oh you're always very good with words

that's why you were valuable to me I

swear on my honor honor honor is what a

spy that an agent of the West a Venetian

thief how I know what he is who he is

you cannot excellence perhaps it was a

mistake ever to think that you could a

mistake I may have made as well who

knows what lies in the heart of a

kinsman let alone someone in a different

skin

where does his real loyalty lie after

all but I know this man I know what lies

in his heart if he betrays you you may

have my head

graspin Mongolian steppe to remind me

where we came from we were the greatest

warriors the world has ever seen

hey I always thought it would be

shameful to die in bed not on the

battlefield and now it seems that's what

fate has in store for me but time a

Mongol warrior still even now in

building ships and gathering troops the

assault against Japan this time I shall

not fail this time I shall make them

submit as Genghis would have done but

the Emperor's warned that I know what

the Empress warned I must make my own

way now go here I said to you oh there

see if these places exist if the

travelers tales are true who were my

eyes as she was my heart

but it's done I will not change my mind

the orders have been given

by the time you return from this mission

I shall be master of these islands too

safe passage as you go

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and as you return

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it's time

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say nothing

I need no thanks the characters for

revenge can be expressed as hatred

falling like snow winter is very near

and it will snow and snow and slow I'm

an old man no one would think it

worthwhile to put a knife in me and if

they did well I lived my share of years

anyway

that's you you must not come back here

do you understand I gave him my word

Marco I promised him then you must

betray one of them must he not

you cannot keep your word to both which

would it be the Emperor

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but yeah choose your time in place but

make sure it's before he can choose his

my best

and most unexpected

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I was before word that these would be

the creators of my journey when I was

prepared for the hardships of the ocean

of the disease and sickness a sea voyage

always bring the days that the wind

didn't blow for day after day week after

week I was even prepared for the dangers

from within

but when the real test came it came with

the briefest of warnings

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hello

they covered the only safe way

[ __ ] to go from one side of the straight

to the other whether or not to run the

gauntlet was my decision

there was only one decision to be made

to save the girl's life yes the girl

that was her captive yes she was wasn't

she

that's the way a writer of cheap

romances may look at it eally informed

insult sorry hazard of the literary life

but she was wasn't she

yes every day we journeyed every step we

took put her closer to Persia and drew

that the trail or to the betrayal of

your word to the Khan what was more

pressing at the moment was how to keep

us all alive

there was no time to gaze at wanders now

I had to lead them out of danger before

the food gave out what Cocotte I stabbed

me in the back but where was i leading

him

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yeah this is all the food we can free

from the book we should have fought the

Pirates at sea but did you want us all

to die here I explored this course on

one of my first voyages we can go north

into Sian and after that we can get into

India through Burma and then on to

Persia was there a reason why you didn't

go must M it like a pirate

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I should kill you for that we have more

fighting Adams

you can't make it back to the cost now

safety lies on moving forward up up up

there was indeed more fighting to be

done we encountered more hunger and

sickness too

I come from the Great Khan we defy him

will you risk his anger which Khan is

this the grandson of Genghis Kublai Khan

Kublai Khan is dead

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you did not know this yet you claimed to

be his servants we've been traveling for

over a year are you sure of this yes

Kublai Khan is no more Kublai Khan is

dead

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doesn't seem possible it was true I

never knew whether he would greet me

with the golden robe with the blade of

an axe for all those years I never knew

each morning if I would live to see the

night

he was my jailer

but he was also my friend

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they say he lost heart after his fleet

was scattered and destroyed when he

tried to invade the Land of the Rising

Sun so he throw it again and suffered

yet another defeat one of the greatest

in the history of man he lost his entire

Navy and thousands of his best soldiers

after that every petty Prince could risk

defying him I've heard there's a new car

now his son Tim oh but no one knows for

sure no one can say where their

loyalties should lie these are uncertain

days not a good time to be on the road

to be strangers will be a few days here

until we recover our strength then we

leave for Persia Persia

some say things are not well there

either no matter that's where we're

headed and then back to China all of us

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you

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hey girl let him go there is no

commercial the person car is dead

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and then you were too many

is dead

you're free free your faith has been

handed back to you

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the vow made to return was too cool I

personally is my car he's dead I'm free

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if you're coming you can never go back I

know no can you

treason marvel you and I swore an oath

to Kublai he's dead

no one wants his death more than I but I

am released from that vow I swore to

take the princess to Persia the Persian

Khan is there too then I'll take her

back to China and you with me or your

head you think I'll sell you the girl

for hand full of jewels she's not yours

to sell

yeah

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Marco here yeah

the princess Kenzi the princess your

master is dead he can have no use for

her now she is to be given to another

prince of the royal household it is the

new Khan's command Timur will sit as a

sign of friendship to the Persian court

My Orders are to take her that you'll

have to kill me if you so wish

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could she have been happy in Venice with

me among us barbarians or would her soul

have sickened and our love died all I

know is that she was taken to Persia

indicates the temple closed on her I

never knew her fit

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for the first time I was setting out on

a journey that I would have given

anything not to have to make

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city built on a swamp clever

some of the traveler returns home or

curiosity satisfied never I could have

done none of it without your loyalty a

small price royalty for a life of the

things that I have seen the church feeds

beggars is this the polar house yes

my father is he still alive

a man from the east with a devil for a

servant what do you want

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I said

but he said all those years at the court

serving the richest man in the world

back wasted shame you did not find a way

to take advantage

just as I warned your father the boy

will return with not a coined his name

they're worth more than any coin

scribblings that's all

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on the end of my travels did you ever go

back to China

no will you ever go back I am a rich man

now the merchant I swore I would never

be and Richmond of obligations such as

to get themselves kidnapped and held for

ransom

but when we get out hey if we get out of

here no I will not go back twice I found

them in search for and twice I lost it

I am NOT a rich man all I have is quill

and ink you will keep your bargain yes

show me your journals let me see your

maps help me write my book in her book

your book do you think anyone want to

read there will be no monsters are

flying horses or men with one foot so

big they used to shade it from the Sun

of all the tales I have ever heard this

one needs them at least it's not a tales

the truth well I set out to prove men

wrong and they called my father a liar

and fell off the edge of the world into

a great one

you

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