Chapter Twenty-Three: The Samara Meeting
Cersie: "!!" - casting
Robin: "(Doesn't do anything)..." - The instant failure of the sorcery hit
Cersey: "!?"
Robin: "Now you know who I am, your witchcraft doesn't work for me." β
Cersie: "It can't directly affect you..." - snapping his fingers (not to be outdone, but his body trembled even more, and his fingers rubbed twice before he snapped)
Sorcery puppets: "(Wrist crushes, choke throat and kneel)..." - use various "sleeping techniques" to trap [Robin]
Robin: "Stop struggling and accept your fate, witch." β
Cersey: "Never!!" - Turns into a puff of green smoke and quickly escapes the communication room
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At the end of the hallway where Robin was trapped earlier
Dent: "(Holding on to the heavy isolation door, resting)..."βa wisp of green smoke drifts in front of him
Dent: "You're going in the wrong direction, aren't you? this is the way to the Pool of Resurrection..."
Cersie: "(Humanoid)... You already knew!!" - interrupted
Dent: "What do I already know?" - puzzled
Cersey: "Robin will be possessed by Hecate, and things will get to this point!" - Hold on to Dent like the last straw
Dent: "I don't know. β
Cersie: "You must have received a 'revelation', 'seen' something!!" - grabbed [Dent]'s shoulders and shook and roared
Dent: "Yes, yes, I 'saw' something, but not about [Robin]. β"Confession"
Cersie: "Who is that about!?"
Dent: "About you. β
Cersie: "About me!?"
Dent: "Well, I 'see' the 'vision' that you were 'sengtled' by [Hecate] and finally lost your soul. β
Cersie: "Ahh~~ (Sorrowful)... Why didn't you tell me before!!" - Anger
Dent: "Have you heard the story of The Meeting of the Samarara?"
Cersie: "Samara?" - I've heard too many stories about "Samarara" (the city of refuge), and I don't know which "Dunter" is referring to
Dent: "The Meeting of the Samara is a short story by the English writer [Maugham], which describes a fateful story that cannot escape death. β
Cersie: "..."βher face turned pale
Dent: "The story goes that a long time ago, a merchant in Baghdad sent his servant to the bazaar to buy grain, and after a short time, the servant came back pale and embarrassed, and reported to the merchant with a trembling face: 'Master, I have just been squeezed in the bazaar, and when I look up, it is death that has squeezed me. When he saw that it was me, he immediately made a threatening gesture to me. I think death must be coming at me, please lend me a fast horse, I want to flee from "Baghdad" and take refuge in "Samara". The merchant generously agreed to the servant's request, and the servant mounted his horse, whipped his horse, and fled to "Samara." Then the merchant came to the market and saw the Grim Reaper standing in the crowd. Strange, the merchant asked why the Grim Reaper had made a threatening gesture to him when he met his servant in the morning. Death said, 'It wasn't a threatening gesture, but I was taken aback by your servant.' I am amazed at the servant who bumped into you in Baghdad, for God arranged for me to have an appointment with him in Samarra this evening. ββ
Cersey: "... So you didn't tell me about the 'visions' you 'saw'?"
Dent: "Yes, in the story, instead of helping the servant escape from death, the merchant lent the servant Kuaima, but fell into the god's trick and threw the servant into the arms of death. β
Cersie: "Wow~~" - sat down on the ground, broke down and cried
Dent: "You skipped the stairs and went straight to Stage 5?"
Cersie: "What 'Phase Five', what are you talking about?" - sobbing
Dent: "The five stages of human psychology before death: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. β
Cersie: "I've been through that a long time ago... Do you know how much chaos and destruction I have brought to Paradise Island in order to prevent the last part of the contract from being activated, and how many people have been killed? When I found out that the Amazons were not dead, and that Princess Diana and Hecate had a godhead (the goddess of the moon), my heart was almost broken, and she made me feel more and more that the last part of the contract was going to be activated by her. βTell about the past
Dent: "You joined [Ares] and [Dalie] to kill [Diana] and prevent the last part of the contract from being activated?"
Cersie: "To be precise, I want to get rid of [Diana] by the hands of [Ares] and [Erio] (Dalie). If I just killed [Diana], I would have been able to do it alone, and the Empress [Hippolyta] would have been turned into a stone by me, and the reason why I didn't do that was because if I did it myself, I might also activate the last part of the contract, and I didn't dare to take this risk. So I was careful and cautious everywhere, walking on thin ice, avoiding going head-to-head with [Diana] while constantly calculating, calculating, calculating..."βrecounting the anguish of my heart
Dent: "Are you tired?"
Cersie: "Yes, I'm so tired, I usually use power to accumulate wealth and satisfy my greed, so as to numb myself and escape my inner fear... (wry smile) ended up struggling and struggling, and in the end, he couldn't escape this catastrophe after all. β
Dent: "You gave up?"
Cersie: "..."βsilence
Dent: "I used to think it was philosophical when I first read The Samara Meeting, but as I've gotten older, I've become more and more disgusted with it. β
Cersie: "Why, the older you get, the less you believe in fate?"
Dent: "It's not that I don't believe in fate, but I hate it." God arranges for the servant to go to "Samara" to die, and the servant can only go to "Samara" to die; God has asked you to like Zhu Bajie, but you can only like Zhu Bajie?
Cersey: "God doesn't care about mortal feelings, we're all God's dolls." β
Dent: "Do you really think you're a doll of the gods, just like the 'witchcraft dolls' you have?"
Cersey: "... No, I have a soul. β
Dent: "So, no matter how ugly you struggle, you have to fight until the very end, and only then can you be worthy of yourself." β
Cersie: "(Looks up)... What the hell are you trying to say?" - I was confused by the man in front of me, and I didn't understand why [Dent] both hit and encouraged himself
Dent: "What I'm trying to say is, you stand up first... (Reaches out and pulls Cersei up) and... (knocks on the isolation door behind him) and smashes this door with your sorcery. β