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18.
Gurney appears to become genuinely angry.
GURNEY
Mood?! What has mood to do with it?
You fight when the necessity
arises, no matter your mood! Now
fight!He attacks fiercely, his sword snaking into Paul’s shield.
Paul falls back, hard-pressed. Backed up against the table.
Paul rolls across the table-top and comes up on the far side
with a dagger in his free hand. Two weapons now.
GURNEY (CONT'D)
Come on!He leaps over the table. His rapier a flickering flame.
Paul’s in trouble. He takes a deep breath.
Paul executes a surprising combat move.
He deflects Gurney’s blades, gets inside his guard -- and his
blade stops, quivering, an inch from Gurney’s throat.
PAUL
I have you.GURNEY
Aye. But look down, m’lord.Paul glances down without lowering his sword. Gurney has a
dagger in his left hand, the blade an inch from Paul’s groin.
GURNEY (CONT'D)
You’d have joined me in death.He grins and deactivates his shield, sheathing his blades.
His menacing aspect melting away.
GURNEY (CONT'D)
I see you found the mood.Paul sighs and puts away his own weapons.
PAUL
Will it be that bad?GURNEY
Bad is a child’s word. You don’t
get it, do you? You don’t really
understand the grave nature of
what’s happening to us.
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