TALAO
Oh.
DACO
And you like to be alone. You like to explore alone. You know safe places that we do not. You can help keep us safe.
TALAO
I guess I do.
DACO
And you, Agbayani, your strength keeps us strong. When beasts come to harm us, you defend us and keep us safe.
AGBAYANI
I do.
DACO
Tigas.
TIGAS
Yes, my leader?
DACO
When we need things, you give them to us. You give us what we need to live.
TIGAS
Yes, yes, my leader. I do that. I do that.
DACO
Angara, you show us what is beautiful and how to follow our passions.
ANGARA
I do, do I?
ANGARA is looking dreamily towards FIONN, who doesn’t know how to take HER stares.
DACO
And you, Ringor, you…
Beat.
FIONN
Show us the importance of self-reflection and mediation through example.
DACO
Yes, that.
RINGOR
You’re welcome.
DACO
You all give us what we need from each other, and together we live in peace.
FIONN
Excellent, Daco! I’m truly happy to see you embrace the joys of my specie’s philosophies. For eons, we lived in pain and misery, not understanding that by harming one another, we were keeping ourselves from ascending. Then when we were on the brink of destruction, we finally realized what we had done. It is my privilege to share these truths of mine with the Lumahan in order that you will not have to experience such destruction and massacres as I have.
DACO
And we are happy to listen.
DACO shakes FIONN’s hand as the only means of showing friendship SHE knows.
RINGOR
And what of others?
DACO
What others?
RINGOR
Other Lumahan? Are you going to every tribe to share your philosophies?
ANGARA
Oooh, that would be fun.
FIONN
Unfortunately not.
ALL voice THEIR displeasure about this.
DACO
Why not?
FIONN
I can’t visit every single tribe on this planet. I have other work to do.
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