Zita Quotes in Strings (2004)

Zita: I end where you begin. And where you end I begin.

Hal: [Hal discovers Zita is Zaro the masked Zerith leader] You! You're Zaro!

Zita: So tell me your name? Now that you know mine.

Hal: Gladly! I am Hal Tara of Hebalom. Son of the Kahro, whom you murdered and I have come for my revenge.

Zita: [Hal and Zita are at the Zerith's camp watching female Zeriths dancing] Aren't they beautiful?

Hal: Yes.

Zita: They are dancing the story of our people. Those are the Siads from Abagos.

Hal: Abagos?

Zita: Yes. Our lost city. Abagos. Once we all lived as one people in the city of Abagos. The Hebalonians came and drove us out. They destroyed everything. Murdered and raped. Since then, we have had to live as fugitives.

Hal: Is that true?

Zita: Yes. Didn't you know? Hebalom is built upon the ruins of Abagons. We have never given up hope of one day reclaiming our city.

Zita: [Zita visits Agra, the Zerith's frail and dying leader] Agra?

Agra: Is that you, Zita?

Zita: Yes.

Agra: Listen to me! Sideon came to me last night in a dream. He said, many strings will fall to earth and sky shall burn. But he who shines like gold will guide his people through these times. "Who is he?" I asked. A stranger everywhere, both at home and abroad, to himself and to others. He answered and then he was gone. Now I can let go. He who shines like gold.

[Agra dies and his strings falls from the sky]

Zita: Agra!

[Zita cries]

Hal: [In the aftermath of the battle] It's over. We won, Zita.

Zita: Won? Our home is totally destroyed, for the second time.

Hal: No, Zita. I have found your home. Your real home. Abagos.

Zita: [Zita embraces Hal] Oh, Hal!.

Zita: [Jhinna's funeral raft sails away into the sunset] She is free now, Hal. Truly free.

Hal: Yes.

Jhinna: [Ola sits beside Jhinna's body on the funeral raft. Jhinna's voice is heard] Come on, Ola, you can do it. Set us free!

Jhinna: [Ola's strings falls from the sky] Fly.

[Ola flies away]

Lhosa: [Hal is hanging upside down in a ice cave. Hal is blindfolded] Anything to say in your defence before you die?

Hal: What have I done?

Lhosa: Come now, we know you're spying for Hebalom.

Hal: No.

Lhosa: Then explain why you are carrying a Hebalonian sword?

Hal: I found it by the Lake.

Lhosa: He's lying!

Hal: Look at me. I'm just a poor nomad. My father is dead and I'm travelling west to escape the war.

Lhosa: What war?

Hal: They say that Hebalom is planning for war, to avenge my... The murder of the Kahro.

Lhosa: Shall we bring him along, or should we finish him here?

Hal: No!

[Lhosa cuts the rope and Hal falls down to the ground. Zita appears]

Zita: Well. Still some kind of freedom fighter? Were they rough on you?

Hal: Just a little.

Zita: Does your life hang by a thread? I don't care who you are, you deserve better treatment than this. You've saved my little scamp of a brother's life and for that I'll always be grateful.

Zita: [Zita unties Hal] My name is Zita.

Hal: Where are you taking me?

Zita: Where ever we decide to take you. We need to know whose side you are on. So tell me, stranger with no name. Whose side are you on?

Hal: My own.

Zita: [Hal and Zita are on a hill. Zita begins teaching Hal the secret of how the Zeriths leap] Now, look up. Can you see where you end?

Hal: [Hal looks up at the night sky] No. Can you?

Zita: I end where you begin. And where you end, I begin. In that way, we are all connected.

Hal: Connected?

Zita: Look.

[Hal lifts up his left arm. Hal's arm is being controlled by Zita. Hal's arm hits him the face and knocks him over. Hal and Zita laugh]

Zita: We're guiding each other. When you learn to be guided by love, then you can use it's strength, which dwells in all life. Not just your own. Then you can do what we do. Move like the wind. Now, you try.

[Hal and Zita falls and rolls down the hill. They laugh. Zita is on top of Hal. They stare deeply into each others eyes. Zita touches Hal's face. Zita underdoes her ponytail and her dreadlocks falls down onto her shoulders. Hal and Zita kisses and they have sex]