E15 - Sugar Confections in the Service of Others

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[00:01] Anne
    I want the Paige Workshop to participate
    in this year's festival selection.
[00:06] Anne
    If we do, then perhaps this workshop will,
    just like the old days—
[00:08] Glen
    No.
[00:09] Anne
    What?
[00:10] Glen
    We will not participate.
[00:13] Anne
    Oh, but...
[00:15] Anne
    But why? It would serve as an opportunity
    to rebuild this workshop!
[00:19] Glen
    Because it was decided
    by the previous master.
[00:21] Anne
    It was decided?
[00:23] Glen
    We are the ones who used to create the
    Holy Beginnings Festival sugar confections.
[00:28] Glen
    But the previous monarch changed
    the policies around them.
[00:32] Glen
    The selections began
    and we were never once chosen.
[00:35] Anne
    What?
[00:36] Glen
    The one who decided to stop
    participating was the last master,
[00:40] Glen
    my father.
[00:42] Glen
    The royal family and the kingdom's religion
    look down on the Paige Workshop.
[00:45] Glen
    This was my father's way of opposing them.
    I cannot be the one to change that.
[00:49] Anne
    Why were you never chosen again?
[00:52] Glen
    This conversation is over.
[00:56] Anne
    If you'll excuse me.
[02:40] Anne
    I think there is a reason for it.
[02:42] Anne
    There is some reason why the Paige
    Workshop stopped being chosen!
[02:46] Anne
    Right now, the workshop is
    in need of something!
[02:50] Anne
    I would like you to allow us to participate
    in the selection so we can find what that is!
[02:54] Glen
    I cannot change my father's policies.
[02:58] Glen
    It isn't just my father's policies.
[03:00] Glen
    That which we have inherited
    from past masters must not be changed.
[03:05] Anne
    But what will you do if past masters
    were mistaken in their decisions?
[03:10] Glen
    Mistaken?
[03:12] Glen
    You're trying to tell me that the decisions
    made by past masters were mistakes?
[03:16] Glen
    That's disrespectful, Anne.
[03:18] Anne
    I think that everyone makes mistakes.
[03:21] Anne
    But that isn't something to be ashamed of.
[03:23] Glen
    Anne, do you realize what you're saying?
[03:25] Glen
    You are insulting our workshop.
[03:29] Glen
    You're saying that we are
    perpetuating past mistakes,
[03:32] Glen
    that our traditions are mistakes.
[03:39] Anne
    But Mister Glen, right now,
    you are insulting me.
[03:43] Glen
    What?
[03:45] Anne
    Right now, I am the Master of Artisans
    of the Paige Workshop.
[03:49] Anne
    And yet you just said "our workshop."
[03:53] Anne
    The way you said it sounded to me as though
    I am not a part of the Paige Workshop.
[03:58] Glen
    In truth, you are not one of our artisans.
[04:00] Anne
    No! I am an artisan of the Paige Workshop!
[04:03] Anne
    You said that I was,
    that you had high hopes for me,
[04:06] Anne
    that I had responsibilities
    as a silver sugar master!
[04:09] Anne
    Which is why, as a silver sugar master,
    I am trying to fulfill my responsibilities.
[04:13] Anne
    I am trying to rebuild the workshop!
[04:16] Anne
    Because that is my job!
[04:22] Glen
    Elliott?
[04:23] Elliott
    It's nothing. I'm sorry.
[04:26] Elliott
    I will escort Anne out.
[04:28] Elliott
    If you discuss this any further,
    I think Mister Glen might have an attack.
[04:32] Anne
    But Mister Collins!
[04:33] Elliott
    Come, come. You can continue this next time!
[04:41] Elliott
    My, that was splendid!
[04:43] Elliott
    To think that you would defy Mister Glen.
[04:46] Elliott
    We could never even imagine such a thing!
[04:49] Anne
    If you think that there's something wrong
    with what Mister Glen is saying,
[04:52] Anne
    then you could offer
    your opinion, couldn't you?
[04:55] Elliott
    If we thought there was
    something wrong, that is.
[04:58] Elliott
    Everyone who's still here either feels
    a deep debt of gratitude toward Mister Glen,
[05:04] Elliott
    or a deep sense of admiration for him.
[05:07] Elliott
    My mom was a cook here at the main house.
[05:11] Elliott
    She raised me and my older sister on her own.
[05:15] Elliott
    But when I was seven,
    she fell ill and couldn't work anymore.
[05:20] Elliott
    The one who extended a helping hand
    to me back then was Mister Glen.
[05:24] Elliott
    Being a child, I wasn't much help with
    anything, but he took me on as an apprentice.
[05:28] Elliott
    He even paid me wages.
[05:30] Elliott
    Everyone here is like me in some way.
    They're here because Mister Glen is here.
[05:35] Anne
    Everyone?
[05:36] Elliott
    Yes. Everyone.
[05:38] Hal
    Excuse us.
[05:40] Hal
    May we have a moment?
[05:45] Orland
    It should work now.
[05:46] Hal
    Thank you so much!
[05:48] Hal
    We'll hurry and prepare your meals.
[05:50] Elliott
    Sorry to bother you while you're working.
[05:53] Orland
    If that's how you feel,
    then you should have done it.
[05:55] Elliott
    But you're the one in charge of
    the maintenance for it, right?
[05:59] Orland
    Honestly. You've been this way
    since you were a child.
[06:02] Anne
    What? Orland, you've been here that long, too?
[06:05] Elliott
    That's right! The two of us have known
    each other quite a long time, you know?
[06:10] Orland
    My dad was an artisan here.
[06:13] Orland
    When my dad died,
    Mister Glen took me in. That's why.
[06:17] Elliott
    And the reason he doesn't cut his hair
    is because he made a wish. Right?
[06:21] Anne
    What?
[06:22] Elliott
    He wants Mister Glen
    to be cured of his illness.
[06:25] Orland
    Hey!
[06:26] King
    What's going on here? A fight?
[06:29] Nadir
    I'm so hungry!
[06:31] Valentine
    What's this?
[06:32] Elliott
    Uh-oh. The scary one is here.
[06:36] Valentine
    King used to be a ruffian so tough
    that no one could handle him.
[06:41] Nadir
    And then Mister Glen hired him.
[06:44] King
    That was all a long time ago.
[06:46] Valentine
    I suppose that the way he accepted me
    and Nadir is the same, in a sense.
[06:51] King
    He took you in when you couldn't pay your
    tuition anymore. Am I remembering rightly?
[06:56] Valentine
    Yes. He acknowledged me for who I am,
    in spite of my being obstinate.
[07:00] Nadir
    Yeah. I mean, he even took in
    a foreigner like me.
[07:03] Nadir
    Mister Glen really is broad-minded, isn't he?
[07:09] Mithril
    Anne, we should go, too.
[07:11] Anne
    Yes.
[07:12] Mithril
    Is something wrong?
[07:15] Anne
    Mister Glen values pride and history.
[07:18] Anne
    Everyone adores and follows him.
[07:21] Anne
    I was wondering if some things are hard to see
    precisely because they're so dear to you.
[07:26] Anne
    If only everyone's feelings
    could link together properly.
[07:30] Mithril
    Well... there are some things that
    no one can do anything about.
[07:35] Mithril
    But those are the times when people put
    their wishes into sugar confections, right?
[07:41] Mithril
    Now, let's go eat dinner!
[07:52] Anne
    Everyone, gather around!
[07:55] Valentine
    What's this?
[07:56] Anne
    I've started wanting to feel
    some silver sugar in my hands.
[07:59] Anne
    Orland, King, if you could
    continue your work, please.
[08:02] Anne
    Nadir, Valentine, make something
    from this and show it to me.
[08:06] Anne
    I want you to show me your skills!
[08:28] Anne
    Putting their wishes into...
[08:36] Anne
    Incredible!
[08:38] King
    Surprising, isn't it?
[08:39] King
    This thing of Valentine's is his favorite
    shape. According to him, it's math.
[08:47] King
    Nadir says the more detailed
    the work is, the more he loves it.
[08:51] King
    Customers who fell in love with that aspect of
    his work have come to request pieces from him.
[08:56] Anne
    I can see that happening. I really can.
[09:01] Anne
    Mister Glen!
[09:02] Nadir
    Mister Glen! You should be lying down!
[09:05] Glen
    I'm all right.
[09:09] Glen
    The wonderful scent of silver sugar...
[09:12] Glen
    When I come here, my spirits are lifted.
[09:15] Glen
    Orland, King, Valentine, Nadir, and Anne.
[09:21] Glen
    I say this as the master of the Paige Workshop.
[09:24] Glen
    Our Workshop has rejected the idea of
    the Holy Beginnings Festival selection process.
[09:28] Glen
    However, this year,
    I think we should participate.
[09:32] Anne
    Is it all right for us to participate?
[09:35] Glen
    Just once.
[09:36] Glen
    If we are not selected,
    then we will never participate again!
[09:41] Glen
    Anne, we will also have you leave this place.
[09:44] Glen
    And that fairy will, of course, belong to me.
[09:48] Glen
    It is true that I chose you
    to be our Head of Artisans.
[09:52] Glen
    And you said that you would take
    responsibility for your position.
[09:56] Anne
    Yes, sir.
[09:57] Anne
    I take full responsibility as the Head
    of Artisans for the Paige Workshop.
[10:17] Challe
    The way I did that to her, I must...
[10:20] Anne
    Challe!
[10:24] Challe
    Have you finished your work?
[10:25] Anne
    No.
[10:27] Anne
    There's something I wanted to tell you, Challe.
[10:31] Anne
    Earlier, Mister Glen decided that
[10:33] Anne
    we can participate in the selection
    for the Holy Beginnings Festival.
[10:37] Anne
    But...
[10:38] Challe
    What is it?
[10:40] Anne
    If we aren't chosen, I will have
    to quit my work here.
[10:45] Anne
    And he won't give your wing back to me, Challe.
[10:49] Anne
    But I told him that would be fine...
[10:51] Anne
    because I think that entering
    the selection is necessary.
[10:54] Anne
    And that's why...
[10:57] Challe
    If you feel it is necessary, then it is fine.
[11:01] Anne
    Are you sure? If we aren't chosen
    in the selection, then you'll...
[11:05] Challe
    You told me to trust in you and wait.
[11:08] Challe
    So, whatever you do...
[11:11] Challe
    I will trust and wait.
[11:13] Anne
    Challe...
[11:16] Anne
    Thank you. I'll do my very best.
[11:19] Anne
    And even if we aren't chosen, don't worry.
[11:22] Anne
    No matter what happens, I will not
    fail to retrieve your wing, Challe.
[11:27] Challe
    I am not worried.
[11:31] Anne
    I see.
[11:43] Mithril
    Well, now!
[11:45] Mithril
    I know this is sudden, but the magnificence
    that is myself has remembered an urgent matter!
[11:49] Mithril
    I'll be heading back now,
[11:50] Mithril
    but you both should stay
    a little longer and look at the lake!
[11:53] Mithril
    It's the perfect weather for holding hands
    and hugging and even kissing!
[11:57] Anne
    What? Mithril Lid Pod!
[11:59] Mithril
    I'll be going! Do your best,
    you two! Anne, in particular!
[12:03] Anne
    I never asked for your advice!
[12:05] Anne
    No, that's not it! I don't know
    what he's talking about, do you?
[12:08] Anne
    No idea whatsoever!
[12:10] Anne
    Wait right there, Mithril Lid Pod!
[12:16] Anne
    What kind of sugar confection would be
    worthy of the Holy Beginnings Festival?
[12:20] Valentine
    Maybe a motif using the Twelve
    Patron Saints or the founding king?
[12:24] Nadir
    What? I don't like things that are too big.
    They're clumsy and unattractive, right?
[12:28] King
    Besides, statues of saints are boring.
[12:32] King
    Plants are better because you can
    use colors, don't you think?
[12:35] Orland
    Plants in the winter?
[12:37] Orland
    If the founding king is the standard,
    then we'll do that.
[12:38] Anne
    Um, well...
[12:38] Valentine
    The bigger the better!
[12:40] King
    No, we'll do plants!
[12:41] Nadir
    I want to do something really detailed!
[12:42] Anne
    Wait just a moment!
[12:42] Orland
    The founding king.
[12:44] Anne
    Everyone, you're only talking about
    what you're imagining
[12:46] Anne
    based on what you want to make!
[12:48] everyone
    What?
[12:49] King
    Aren't you going to entrust
    the selection piece to one of us?
[12:52] Valentine
    Oh, that's right! Please excuse my rudeness.
[12:56] Valentine
    King, you have it wrong.
    Anne is going to make it.
[12:59] King
    Really?
[13:01] Anne
    No, but...
[13:04] Anne
    Until now, each job has been
    entrusted to a single artisan,
[13:09] Anne
    but this time, I'm thinking of
    changing the way things are done.
[13:11] Nadir
    Changing?
[13:12] Anne
    That's right!
[13:13] Anne
    The five of us will decide
    what sort of sugar confection to make,
[13:16] Anne
    and then I thought the five of us
    would make it together.
[13:18] Orland
    The five of us?
[13:20] Orland
    I don't think all of
    our perspectives will align.
[13:24] Orland
    And why is there any need
    for them to align in the first place?
[13:27] Anne
    I've been thinking about this.
[13:28] Anne
    Anything that everyone decides is good...
[13:31] Anne
    will have everyone's
    best aspects packed into it, won't it?
[13:34] Anne
    And I thought that it might be something
    that a lot of people would choose.
[13:40] Orland
    If such a thing exists.
[13:42] Anne
    We won't know until we search for it!
[13:45] Nadir
    But what do we do?
[13:46] Nadir
    We can gab like this all we want,
    but we'll never agree on anything.
[13:51] Nadir
    The things we want to make
    and the things we like are just too different.
[13:55] Anne
    Well, is there anyone who knows
[13:57] Anne
    what has been made for
    the Holy Beginnings Festival in the past?
[14:02] Anne
    It would be nice if we could
    find a hint within that information.
[14:05] Valentine
    Now that you mention it...
[14:08] Elliott
    These are the journals of previous
    generations of masters.
[14:11] Elliott
    They aren't things I would
    ever want to read, though.
[14:15] Anne
    Why not?
[14:16] Elliott
    You'll know once you take a look.
[14:17] Elliott
    Sorry, I have things to attend to.
[14:19] Elliott
    I'll be back tomorrow!
[14:21] Elliott
    I'll help you out after I've returned.
[14:24] Anne
    All right! Let's divide them up and read them!
[14:27] Anne
    If we read them together,
    we'll be done in no time!
[14:29] King
    I don't know about that.
[14:34] Mithril
    Is this some kind of incantation?
[14:35] Valentine
    These journals are old,
    so the speech patterns are old, too.
[14:39] Valentine
    These are difficult to read.
[14:40] King
    I can't read 'em.
[14:42] Nadir
    I can't either! Even if I tried
    until I died, I couldn't!
[14:45] Orland
    I can read them.
[14:47] Valentine
    I can manage them, too.
[14:48] Anne
    I can, too. So, three of us.
[14:51] Valentine
    The selection is in less than two weeks.
    What should we do?
[14:55] Orland
    All we can do is divide them up and read.
[14:57] Orland
    Three is better than none. Let's get started.
[15:00] Anne
    I-If you would, please.
[15:02] King
    I'm sorry.
[15:03] Nadir
    Sorry.
[15:04] Anne
    It's all right.
[15:06] Hal
    That looks like difficult reading.
[15:09] Anne
    Hal, you can read it?
[15:11] Hal
    No.
[15:12] Hal
    To read something like this, you have to
    have gone to school and studied in earnest.
[15:17] Valentine
    In that case, Miss Bridget
    might be able to read it!
[15:21] Nadir
    I haven't seen her lately, though.
[15:23] King
    Apparently, she hasn't left her room at all.
[15:26] Nadir
    Really? Going out a bit
    would be better for her.
[15:29] Hal
    That's true.
[15:34] Bridget
    Who's there?
[15:36] Bridget
    Challe?
[15:38] Anne
    I'm sorry. It's me, Anne.
[15:41] Anne
    Miss Bridget, there's something I was
    hoping you might help me with, so I...
[15:51] Bridget
    Help you?
[15:53] Anne
    Yes. We're reading the previous
    masters' journals, but it's difficult.
[16:00] Anne
    So, I thought that if you
    would help, Miss Bridget...
[16:06] Bridget
    If I helped, would Challe come here?
[16:10] Anne
    That's up to Challe...
[16:13] Anne
    so I can't answer that.
[16:16] Bridget
    If Challe won't come...
[16:19] Bridget
    then I won't help.
[16:21] Anne
    I understand.
[16:23] Anne
    W-Wait!
[16:24] Anne
    Here!
[16:27] Anne
    As I thought of you, Miss Bridget...
    I ended up making a little bird.
[16:34] Bridget
    For me?
[16:36] Bridget
    I don't want it.
[16:38] Anne
    If you don't like it, then please
    break it and dispose of it.
[16:41] Bridget
    You know that I couldn't possibly
    do something like that!
[16:43] Bridget
    That's why I can't accept it!
[16:46] Bridget
    I will never accept it.
[16:53] Anne
    Orland?
[16:57] Anne
    What were you doing there?
[16:59] Orland
    What about you?
[17:01] Anne
    I... wanted to give this to Miss Bridget.
[17:04] Anne
    And I thought that she might
    help with reading the journals.
[17:09] Orland
    You really are unpretentious, aren't you?
[17:11] Orland
    She would never accept that from you,
    and she'll never help you.
[17:14] Anne
    But, Orland, you were taking that
    to Miss Bridget, too, weren't you?
[17:18] Orland
    This is a simple apology.
[17:20] Anne
    An apology?
[17:25] Orland
    The one who stole Challe's wing
    and put it by Mister Glen's pillow was me.
[17:30] Anne
    What? Wait. That was you, Orland?
[17:32] Anne
    Why? I mean...
[17:34] Anne
    And Miss Bridget said it was
    a spot no one else knew about.
[17:37] Orland
    They've forgotten, that's all.
[17:41] Orland
    Long ago, when we were little,
    we often played together.
[17:46] Orland
    Back then, she even showed me
    where her secret hiding spot was.
[17:51] Anne
    So that's why...
[17:52] Orland
    She was going to become
    a sugar artisan, so we were comrades.
[17:57] Orland
    She said that's why we
    should share our secrets, too.
[18:01] Orland
    She was a good, cheerful child.
[18:03] Orland
    And yet...
[18:05] Orland
    Bridget as she is now is the worst.
[18:08] Orland
    Watching her infuriates me.
[18:10] Orland
    The way she treated Challe was the same.
[18:12] Orland
    That's why I took the wing.
[18:14] Anne
    So, the thing that changed Miss Bridget was
[18:17] Anne
    having the path of
    a sugar artisan forbidden to her?
[18:21] Anne
    Why, even though we're both girls,
[18:22] Anne
    is it all right for me,
    but not for the master's daughter?
[18:27] Orland
    If the master's children become
    sugar artisans, they inherit the workshop.
[18:33] Orland
    Being the master is hard enough work.
    It would be even harder for a woman.
[18:39] Orland
    You know the situation that
    our school is in, don't you?
[18:41] Orland
    Mister Glen didn't want to
    put his daughter in a position
[18:46] Orland
    that he knew was so difficult.
[18:49] Anne; internal
    There it is again.
[18:50] Anne; internal
    Each person's emotions
    aren't linking properly with reality.
[18:55] Mithril
    Well, there are some things
    that no one can do anything about.
[18:58] Mithril
    But those are the times when people put
    their wishes into sugar confections, right?
[19:02] Anne
    That's right.
[19:04] Anne
    All a person can do is wish.
[19:10] (Flashback) Bridget
    For me?
[19:15] Anne
    Say, Orland.
[19:17] Anne
    You made that for Miss Bridget, didn't you?
[19:21] Anne
    Orland, you can make really impactful pieces,
[19:24] Anne
    but when it's for Miss Bridget's sake, then
    you can make lovely pieces like this, too.
[19:29] Anne
    If it's in service of someone else, then...
[19:33] Anne
    What we've learned from reading the journals...
[19:35] Anne
    is that the sugar confections
    the Paige Workshop wanted to make...
[19:37] Anne
    and the opinions of the kingdom's religion
    sometimes conflicted and caused issues.
[19:42] Anne
    That's how the festival
    selection process was created.
[19:44] King
    So, what does that mean?
[19:46] King
    That we have to make a piece that will
    curry favor with the kingdom's religion?
[19:52] Anne
    Not at all.
[19:53] Anne
    Let's make something we all want to make.
[19:56] Anne
    To help Mister Glen!
[19:59] Anne
    Mister Glen made the decision
    to enter the selection
[20:01] Anne
    because he wants to protect the workshop.
[20:05] Anne
    So I think we should make
    something to help Mister Glen,
[20:08] Anne
    to help the workshop continue.
[20:12] Anne
    There, in the Saint Lewiston Bell Church,
[20:14] Anne
    Mister Glen will see
    the sugar confection on display...
[20:17] Anne
    and he'll feel proud and happy.
    Let's make that kind of a piece.
[20:22] King
    The Holy Beginnings Festival, huh?
[20:24] King
    Now that I think about it,
[20:26] King
    Mister Glen always hopes for snow
    on the night of the festival.
[20:30] King
    He says that snow will lead us
    into a whole new world.
[20:34] Orland
    I've heard that snow is
    a motif that Mister Glen favors.
[20:38] Anne
    So, Mister Glen likes snow?
[20:41] Anne
    In that case, let's make snow!
    Let's make the snow that Mister Glen loves!
[20:45] Hal
    Someone! Someone come quickly!
[20:49] Hal
    Please! Anyone!
[20:52] King
    Hey, that's...
[20:57] Anne
    Mister Collins!
SIGN    Sugar Confections in the Service of Others
SIGN    The First Silver Sugar