EXT.
THE LADY'S LUCK - CAMELOT - NIGHT
A
tavern at the heart of the city of Camelot. Large stones and stone
pillars make up most of its structure. Many horses are tied up
outside - black horses.
INT.
THE LADY'S LUCK - CAMELOT - NIGHT
Men
clad in black armour fill the long tables, their presence smothering
the joy that was once instilled. The musicians stop playing and the
locals stop talking.
GAV
(to
the bartender)
Get
us all some ale, would ya!
At
once, the bartender hurries to prepare drinks for the soldiers.
GAV
(to
the musicians)
And
play something cheery!
(to
his companions)
It's
been a fucking dreadful morning.
The
musicians begin to play an ode about the story of a woman who has
'golden' fingers. With the music, the atmosphere returns to normal.
ROBIN
She's
struck again, has she?
GAV
Yeah.
And this time she's taken from the King's GrandWitch!
ROBIN
Nimueh?
By the gods, how did she manage that?
GAV
I
don't know but she's made us track her down since dawn.
(slams
fist on the table)
I
swear when I find her-
BROM
If
you find her.
GAV
glares at BROM. BROM raises his hands in surrender.
BROM
I'm
just saying, Gav, no one's been able to catch her. They don't call
her Lady Luck for nothing.
The
bartender gives the soldiers large glasses of ale. GAV immediately
scoffs his down.
GAV
She's
not lucky, Brom.
BROM
Then
how do you explain this? Tell him, Robin!
ROBIN
She
did steal the stuffed carcass of the Questing Beast from King
Pellinore's castle.
GAV
Maybe
the guards weren't doing their jobs properly.
BROM
I
heard that she walked right through that castle and back out, and all
of them saw her but couldn't do anything.
GAV
That's
nothing but money, Brom. Money can make a people vanish as quickly as
it can make them rich.
BROM
But
Nimueh is a witch and none of our men would ever give into bribery.
No one's that brave to face the consequences. How did she slip past
her?
GAV
I
don't know, nor do I care.
(to
bartender)
Hey!
Get me another glass of ale!
BROM
and ROBIN drink their glasses of ale as GAV waits impatiently for his
to be served to him. Once it is, he again scoffs it down in a hurry.
A
woman stands from her seat and walks over to the musicians. After a
short conversation, one of them gives her his vielle, a bow stringed
instrument.
She
stands on the unoccupied table near her and stamps her feet twice,
gathering the attention of everyone in the room.
The
woman was in her mid 20s, dark-skinned and wore a dark green
waistcoat with leather pants and brown-laced boots. Her black
dreadlocks were styled with golden rings and tied up.
She
goes on to play a heroic, vibrant melody on the vielle has she dances
on the table, the sound of her feet creating a hypnotic rhythm.
She
sings of a tale of a woman known as the, 'Lady Thief' and warns the
crowd to beware of her as well as informing them of her famous
steals.
As
she performs the crowd becomes infatuated, clapping and dancing along
to the music as she dances across the tables. Even BROM couldn't help
but enjoy himself. But GAV was wary.
When
she finishes, she's given a standing ovation. The woman bows, a wide
smile on her face.
WOMAN
Thank
you, thank you very much!
She
reaches in her pockets and takes out a golden coin.
WOMAN
Drinks
are on me.
She
tosses the coin in the air and it lands on GAV's table. She makes her
exit as the coin spins on the table. GAV watches its intensely. When
it stops he notices something.
GAV
Hold
on a minute...That's Lady Luck's emblem!
Immediately,
everyone in the tavern checks their pockets for their possessions and
realises that they're gone.
GAV
turns his head to the door and sees a group of goblins with bags of
money, jewellery around their necks and carrying barrels of ale
exiting the tavern.
GAV
looks at the wanted poster on the wall and the woman exiting with the
goblins, her hair now down, replicating the woman on the poster.
When
she notices GAV looking at her, she winks at him before running
outside.
GAV
Fuck!
It's her!
(to
his soldiers)
What
are you all doing standing around for? Get her!
At
once, the soldiers leave the tavern.
EXT.
THE LADY'S LUCK - CAMELOT - NIGHT
LADY
LUCK steals one of the black horses tied up outside the tavern as the
goblins that accompanied her use magical dust to shrink their steals.
KLIH,
an older female goblin, approaches LADY LUCK.
LADY
LUCK
(to
the goblins)
I'll
meet you back home.
KLIH
Be
careful, darling!
LADY
LUCK
I'm
not the one who needs to be careful.
KLIH
gives her a sly smile.
LADY
LUCK
Now
go! Quickly!
LADY
LUCK watches as the goblins flee from the tavern and into the shadows
of the street, carrying small bags on their backs.
But
as soon as the soldiers exit the tavern, LADY LUCK rides off.
The
soldiers chase LADY LUCK through the city but she manages to evade
them due to inexplicable events.
One
soldier gets knocked of his horse when the horse falls over a small
rock, another gets piss thrown in his eyes when a woman is dispensing
a bucket of urine from her window.
For
some unknown reason, one soldier's horse just stops running and when
another is close enough to grab LADY LUCK, his feet gets caught in
the reins and falls out of the saddle has he reaches for her.
LADY
LUCK watches these events unfold with a humourous smile. But has she
gets near the city gates, a man, late 20s, also clad in black armour
stands in her way (though she's too distracted by the soldier falling
of his horse to notice.)
The
man whistles and the horse lunges forward, sending LADY LACK flying.
She crashes in front of him but before she can come to her senses,
she's knocked unconscious.
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