Lackey Quotes in Stardust (2007)

[Septimus walks towards the sea-shore]

Lackey: Your Highness, the soothsayer, as you requested.

Septimus: [to the soothsayer] South you said. South we went. Still no stone. Do you now propose we start swimming?

Soothsayer: Sire, I've merely relayed to you what the runes have told me. I can do no more.

Septimus: Well, consult them again.

[the soothsayer is about to do so when Septimus halts him]

Septimus: Wait! Before we seek the stone... I have another question: Am I the seventh son?

[the soothsayer throws the runes and reads them after they fall with three joined together and one leaning away, with the runic symbols uppermost]

Soothsayer: Yes.

Septimus: Another question. Is my favourite colour blue?

[the soothsayer throws the runes once more and reads them]

Soothsayer: Yes.

Septimus: Has excessive begging or pleading ever persuaded me to spare the life of a traitor?

[the soothsayer nervously throws the runes and is afraid when they turn over scattered away from each other, with the blank side uppermost]

Soothsayer: Um...

Septimus: What does that mean?

Soothsayer: That means "no".

Septimus: Good! Throw them again. This time throw them high.

[the soothsayer throws the runes high in the air]

Septimus: [while the runes are mid-air] Do you work for my brother?

[the runes come down. Septimus removes his dagger and kills the luckless soothsayer, implying that indeed, the runes say "yes."]

Septimus: So, do we continue west?

[He throws the runes up again]

[first lines, subtitled version]

Lackey: Why did you take so long? Yanco has been asking for you.