
Originally Posted by
Alleya
SCENE: INT. SHADOW MOSES MISSION CONTROL. ENTER COLONEL CAMPBELL, MEI LING, SOLDIER
MEI LING
What bloody man is that? He can report,
As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
The newest state.
COLONEL
This is the sergeant
Who like a good and hardy soldier fought
'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!
Say to the king the knowledge of the broil
As thou didst leave it.
SOLDIER
Doubtful it stood;
As two spent swimmers, that do cling together
And choke their art. The merciless Liquid Snake--
Worthy to be a rebel, for to that
The multiplying villanies of nature
Do swarm upon him--from the western isles
Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied;
And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,
Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak:
For brave Solid Snake--well he deserves that name--
Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valour's minion carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave;
Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,
And fix'd his head upon our battlements.
MEI LING
O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!