#monsterdon MONSTER ZAP! Not sure what that bright blue light was, exactly, but I'm sure it has something to do with The Beast™ attacking and interrupting the royal marriage.

Oh hey, those ominous soldiers clad in glossy black pointy armour can also just scale castle walls as if weightless? Uhhh and when stabbed they break apart like garthim from The Dark Crystal? OK, sure, got it.

#monsterdon This protracted mountain climbing sequence could have been a swift montage.

*mountaineering boy-king's internal monologue* The hiiiiiills are aliiiiive / with the sound of muuuuusic

ALTERNATE CUT:

Lissa needs braces! / Dental plan / Lissa needs braces! / Dental plan / ...

#monsterdon boy king: *holds up the glaive, as if to throw it at... nothing? Like, off the edge of the mountain?*

old man: Do not use it until you need it!

We need to have a talk about the value of practice and the virtues of muscle memory.

#monsterdon "You heard the man, we're a army now!"

_muttering_ "An unpaid army."

"Have you got a problem?"

"What, can't a man even talk to himself without being interrupted now?"

Heh, legitimately funny

#monsterdon "You cannot overcome the power of the beast..?"

"Not in this place, no."

"Then where?"

"The emerald tower."

One short day / In the emerald city..!

#monsterdon "He gave his life for us."

"He... was my only family."

"We're your family now!"

ooooooof, it's not called an emotional beat because it's supposed to feel like being hit with a stick