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(Now we cut to Andau inside the castle. Gabriella catches up to him)
Gabriella: Here you are!
Andau: What do you want?
Gabriella: What on Solest would possess you to treat your sister like that? She’s been waiting her whole life to find you again!
Andau: I care not. I have no family. I lost them back when this all started.
Gabriella: But she wants to help! She’s always wanted to help! She just didn’t have a chance at the time! 
Andau: Enough. You are starting to irritate me.
Gabriella: How many more chances like this do you think we’ll have?! 
Andau: Chances for what? It surprised me greatly that she was even still alive. You think some feeble old woman can cure vampirism? 
Gabriella: No, but—
Andau: I have tried to teach you about this existence. You have mostly reacted with ignorance, but what am I about to tell you is likely more valuable than anything else I have said, so it would serve you well to pay attention.
(pause)
Andau: Do not hope. Do not fool yourself into thinking there is a way out. That will only make it more miserable. You can not go back. If you want to end this…the only thing you can do is step into the sun and take your chances with the next world.
(long pause)
Gabriella: We may not be able to go back to being human, but we don’t have to spend our lives hurting others. I have listened to what you have told me. You told me smaller animals are immune to vampirism. I’ve been living off the lizards and other little creatures in this area. It may seem humiliating….but it makes me feel like less of a monster.
Andau: That is your solution? To spend eternity pestering tiny creatures like some kind of human mosquito? I have no interest in such a pathetic course of action. There is no vengeance in such a lifestyle.
Gabriella: That’s only one suggestion! There are so many possibilities…..if you would just step away from your anger and think for a few moments, you would see them too. With your sister to hide us, we could come up with other ways to survive. If she and others helped convince the public that we don’t have to be monsters, maybe they would help us. Maybe they could donate their own blood…so we could sustain ourselves and not have to create more vampires.
Andau: Arrrgh! I can not tolerate your…moronic idealism! All of that is utter nonsense!
Gabriella: Why don’t you want help!?
(pause)
Andau: That is none of your concern. If you want my sister’s help, you are free to seek it. Nothing is keeping you here. I disgust you, and yet you remain. Why do you seek to influence my own decisions? 
(long pause)
Gabriella: You know…after you flew off, your sister told me how you became a vampire.
(pause)
Gabriella: I was once so quick to pass judgment….I knew nothing of the lives they led, but I condemned them anyway. I deserved this.
(pause)
Gabriella: But you didn’t. Not for trying to help someone else. 
(pause)
Andau: I….I am not sure of what to say.
(a pause, then doors opening. The heroes have entered)
Andau: They’re here already. Shroud, Stoic and those other imbeciles. 
Gabriella: …What should we do?
Andau: I could not defeat them on my own the last time we fought.
(pause. He looks at Gabriella)
Andau: But now….
Gabriella: I will only fight if you agree to come back with me to your sister when we’re finished.
(pause)
Andau: You are becoming quite wily. That is a good skill to have. I shall….consider it.
Gabriella: Good enough for now.