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PATU: Light your torches! Join the porches! There are huddled babies ready for dungeon scorches!

BARBARIANS: Baby flesh! Baby flesh! 

PATU: Roll them up in mashes! Roast their heads and broil their arms!  

BARBARIANS: Jeho! Jeho! Jeho!

PATU: Ah, Jeho's coming! What a fine meaty fest is ready! 

JEHO: Baboons! Why isn't the city on fire?

BARBARIANS: But Jeho, we---

JEHO: Baboons! You want to keep the choicest chunks of flesh for yourselves! How dare you! I'll take this sword and strike you all down!

BARBARIANS: Jeho, Jeho! Patu told us so!

PATU: Not true! I wanted the best for you!

BARBARIANS: Jeho! Jeho! Patu told us to eat the people's flesh first!

PATU: Not true! I only---

JEHO: Patu. Yes, I should have known. I've known for a long time. You wanted to be in the kingly tent. You want to beat me at royal bear wrestling, and take my head, Patu... 

JEHO: Try it, crush my head and take the crown.

BARBARIANS: Jeho! Jeho! Jeho! 

JEHO: Oh, Patu, you've no strength at all. I kill you with my finger.

BARBARIANS: Oof! Uff! Oogh!

JEHO: Oh Patu, you should steal, not fight. Here, take some bath tiles, soothing to your piles. Here, Patu, you bleed. Take this fine linen shirt and bind up your hurt. 

JEHO: Patu, on the ground now you are. Ahh, a fine white chalice, just grabbed out of the emperor's house. Here, Patu, have your crown. I call you now, Chieftain of Chalices, as I slap this crown on your head. ...Oh, perfect fit. Now, go, traitor. If I see you again, I kill you.

BARBARIANS: Jeho! Jeho! Jeho!

JEHO: The rest of you, do what I say.

BARBARIANS: Jeho, Jeho, Jeho!

JEHO: Let's fill our eyes before our bellies. Burn the city, put chains on the court, ash and rubble, misery, trouble, make a fire reach the war god in the sky. 

BARBARIANS: To the sky!

JEHO: Smash their statues! Chop off their heads!

BARBARIANS: Jeho, Jeho, Jeho!

JEHO: Burn their scrolls! Burn their very threads!

BARBARIANS: Jeho, Jeho, Jeho!

JEHO: Drown them with dead! Run the streets with red!

BARBARIANS: Jeho, Jeho, Jeho!

JEHO: Enough time has passed. Let's go, our swords are massed. 

BARBARIANS: Jeho, Jeho, Jeho!

PATU: At last I can rise from the street. Uhh. I must be getting to the palace upon Jeho... I must revenge myself... there will be Jeho's.... this chalice must get there, must...

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