Roxane:
Let me pass.
Guards:
None can enter.
Roxane:
I am the
queen. I want to see him. I've waited three days.
Hephaistion:
He says none, not even you.
Roxane:
He needs me.
Hephaistion:
No, he doesn't.
Roxane:
And he needs you?
Cassander:
Hephaistion, you make a mistake.
Hephaistion:
The army grows restless, questioning. Alexander. They need
your reassurance.
Alexander:
Heinous. Like an old lover they forgive, but they
will never forget.
Hephaistion:
He was an aging drunk.
Alexander:
He was my friend. His sister Lanice nursed me. And how did I
repay her?
Two brothers dead, fighting him by my own hands. Her last
remaining blood.
What will she do but weep on the day of my birth?
Hephaistion:
Come. You know more than any...great deeds are
done by men who took and never regretted. You're Alexander. Pity and grief will
only destroy you.
Alexander:
Have I become so arrogant that I am blind?
Hephaistion:
Sometimes, to expect the best of everyone is...arrogance.
Alexander:
Then Cleitus spoke true. I have become a tyrant.
Hephaistion:
No. But perhaps, a stranger. You've gone too far.
They don't understand you anymore.
Alexander:
They speak of Philip now...as if I were a passing
cloud...soon to be forgotten.
I've failed...utterly.
Hephaistion: You're mortal. And they know it.
And they forgive you because you make them proud of
themselves.
Alexander:
Philip once said...that there's a Titan in all of us. That
they wait, mixed in our ashes.
It wasn't because of the wine, I killed. It was because I
wanted to.
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