i find it hard to eat when so many are hungry.
yes, i am, mother! those new linen pants you got me from egypt make my ass look just huge.
why not? everybody else is starving-- present company excluded.
whatever. i'm just so incredibly bored.
isn't that the idiot who was standing up in the street? maya sees him, too, and starts fuming. the high priest continues.
good. see that he's bathed and dressed, then bring him to me. maya frowns and exits. inanna this should be amusing.
come to me. zed turns and sees the princess standing on the terrace.
beautiful, isn't it? you can see gomorrah just over the hill.
they're called the "twin cities."
and what do you think? am i evil?
i have body issues.
my eyes are brown.
i don't know. i just find you-- interesting. they say it's the will of the gods that some men should suffer while others rule-- that we're all just victims of our fate. and i believed that until this morning when i saw you standing up, alone, in the square. and i said to myself, finally here's one man who refuses to bow down to anything--
yes, finally a man who has the courage to question the order of things--- a man chosen by the gods to do something great.
i know why. to bring you here-- to this place-- to me.
come. she takes his hand and leads him away. a shadowy figure watches them from behind a curtain.
i want you to enter the holy of holies.
so they say, but the only one who ever goes in is the high priest. they say it's instant death for anyone else to enter.
this is what you've been chosen for! to speak to the gods and plead with them not to destroy the city. then come back out and tell me what it's like inside.
do you always follow the rules?
do this for me.
i didn't intend for this to happen.
what now? more virgins to sacrifice?
i'll see you all in hell.