Monica Keena nel ruolo di...
Lilli Hoffman
- [Will is having a nightmare]
- Lars: He dreams of fire. They tied him to a stake, then burned his family while he watched. And then they placed a red-hot cross of iron across his face, because he would not repent.
- Lilli: What was his crime?
- Lars: He would not fight for their cause.
- Lilli: Who were they?
- Lars: Crusaders for the Church. Men of God.
- [pause]
- Lars: My face, it frightens you?
- Lilli: Yes.
- Lars: Scares me, too.
- Will: Never look a raven in the eye for too long. Might steal your soul and fly away with it.
- Lilli: Why are you staring at me?
- Will: It hadn't occurred to me to look anywhere else.
- Lilli: It's very rude.
- Will: It's one of my better habits.
- Lilli: I take it you have no manners, then.
- Will: No manners then... and no manners now.
- Lilli: Trying to be funny?
- Claudia Hoffman: You seem quite alive, for a little wench who's been rotting in the ground. I felt you stir. The moment you took your first breath, it was like a knife in my heart.
- Lilli: You have no heart.
- Claudia Hoffman: That's too simple.
- Lilli: Trying to be funny?
- Will: I was just wondering what it would take to make a princess smile.
- [he touches her face and she moves away]
- Lilli: I'm not a princess.
- Will: What are you then?
- Lilli: I'm the daughter of Friedrich Hoffman.
- Will: Ah, so you're nothing more than a name.
- Lilli: What right do you have to say that? You know nothing about me.
- Will: I know enough of your kind.
- Lilli: How could you know anything about anyone, you live like an animal; you hide out like a criminal.
- Will: And what are you doing princess, is this some holiday you're taking?
- Lilli: My father will find me -
- Will: Where is this great father of yours? How come he hasn't rescued you?
- Lilli: He'll find me, I know it!
- [quietly]
- Will: What if he doesn't?
- [pause]
- Lilli: I don't like the way you speak to me.
- Will: How would you have me speak?
- Lilli: Like a civilized gentleman, and not some savage -
- [he slams her up against a pillar with his hand at her throat]
- Will: That is a word I will not bear from the lips of any man or woman. The last time I heard that word spoken, it was by one of your so-called gentlemen, and there was nothing gentle about it. Or civilized.
- Lilli: Let go of me!
- [faintly mocking]
- Will: Why?
- Lilli: Because you frighten me.
- [he looks haunted and releases her]