Kore(narration): You wanted me to come to you of my own free will.

Kore(narration): I come to you, raw and unschooled

Kore(narration): Watch me, you spider in the windows…I don’t care who hears.

Kore(narration): They’re all waking up, the island. Today, I, Cora Alexandria Violante-Marie Elisabeth von Wittelsbach-szilagyi de horogszeg — you don’t even have a name —

Kore(narration): —will destroy the hopes of an ancient dynasty…

Kore(narration): …impoverish the expectations of thousands…

Kore(narration): …throw away control of a fleet of a hundred oil tankers, two hundred bunkers, three hundred containerships…

Kore(narration): the mineral wealth of three continents…sovereignty over the iron economic productivity of all Asia. A highly anticipated career in politics,

Kore(narration): every hand laid on my head in blessing I spurn.

Kore(narration): I am adamant. Girasol. La smaragdine.

Kore(narration): shatter the tablets, I break myself at your feet.

Kore(narration): I must know if it’s him or you. I must know or die.