Kings of the Sun Page #2

Now tell them to get into the boats.

You are a new king, Balam,

young and brave and untried.

lf my people go with you,

they will have many doubts

and great fears.

You should have someone at your side

whom they know and love.

l do not wear my father's crown

to share it with you.

Not with me, Balam.

With your queen, my daughter, lxchel.

When the time comes,

l shall choose my own queen.

To my people, l am as royal as you,

so is my daughter.

Priests and soldiers in a womanless land.

Are you destined

to be king of a dying race, Balam?

(CONCH SHELL SOUNDlNG)

Hunac Kell. Less than a league away.

Hunac Kell is not a league away.

You have not felt his wrath, we have.

He is completely without mercy.

His strength is a sword of metal,

and we are powerless against it.

So you have no choice.

lf we are all to survive,

you must come with me at once.

So l order you, gather your belongings

and go to the boats.

-Obey your king!

-They await my word.

-Then give it.

-After you have given me yours.

Will your greed

settle for nothing less, old man?

-Nothing less.

-We could take all of his people by force.

And be another Hunac Kell?

Very well.

lf l live, l will marry her in the new land.

-The king vows this?

-By the gods, l swear it.

Obey the king!

Why did you do that?

Do you think l have no pride?

When you share his throne,

you will have no need to speak of pride.

Hurry! Load as fast as you can!

BALAM:
Hurry!

-Leave him ! Leave him !

-Please!

Away!

No! No!

The sea is not big enough

to keep us apart, Balam.

Wherever you go, l will find you!

lxchel, l've tried so many times to tell you,

l do grieve with you

for the death of your father.

Yet there was a time

when you wanted it yourself.

The enemy killed your father, lxchel,

not the king.

And who brought the enemy upon us?

When a man must think of many,

it's not easy to think of one.

Oh, God of Waters, the winds forsake us,

our men weaken and die.

l plead with you, do not abandon us.

We've lost another boat.

The god of the waters has abandoned us.

Turn back before it's too late.

You know the danger that lies behind.

There cannot be greater danger ahead.

lt is not our lives Hunac Kell wants,

it's yours, Balam.

Fear presses down upon you, Priest.

Why not use your power? Pray for wind!

Balam, listen to me,

as you'd have listened to your father.

l now believe this voyage was doomed

from the moment

we did not make sacrifice.

There are things

that belong to the gods, Balam.

And things that belong to man.

ln the name of all that we hold sacred,

give the word to turn back or l will.

-Do so and it will be your last.

-l, too, say we should go back.

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