E9 - The Radcliffe Workshop

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    I don't know how far I can go, but…
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    It's all right
[00:17] ---
    Even alone, I'll be fine, but…
[00:21] ---
    You know, the truth is
    that no one is alone
[00:28] ---
    Things like happiness,
    loneliness, and even anxiety…
[00:34] ---
    We are born to savor all those things
[00:44] ---
    A single spoonful of sparkles
[00:47] ---
    Transforms everything into smiles
[00:51] ---
    That could be what I secretly wished for…
[00:58] ---
    That miracle
[01:00] ---
    We're each searching for
    our most precious treasures
[01:07] ---
    That's what our journey is for
[01:13] ---
    I don't know how far I can go, but...
[01:21] ---
    Each moment that passes before me
    shall be spun from hope
[01:43] Mithril
    Hey, hey! Challe fenn Challe!
[01:46] Mithril
    Do you like it when a girl
    has her hair neatly tied back?
[01:50] Mithril
    Or do you like it when
    their hair isn't tied back?
[01:54] Mithril
    Hey, Challe fenn Challe!
[01:56] Mithril
    You can say anything! Just say something!
[01:59] Challe
    You talk too much.
[02:00] Mithril
    What?! I said you could say anything,
    but I didn't mean anything!
[02:04] Mithril
    Give the question a serious answer!
[02:05] Challe
    I have no obligation to give such
    a ridiculous question a serious answer.
[02:09] Anne
    Look, you two! It's Lewiston!
    We haven't seen it in a while!
[02:14] Anne
    It makes me remember
    what happened a year ago.
[02:17] Anne
    I entered the Exhibition
    and we went to Philax...
[02:21] Anne
    I saw Mama's spirit off on Pull Soul Day...
[02:29] Challe
    What's wrong, Scarecrow?
[02:30] Anne
    What?
[02:31] Challe
    Do you have a fever or something?
[02:33] Anne
    It's... It's nothing.
[02:35] Anne; internal
    Challe is still calling me
    Scarecrow, as usual.
[02:38] Anne; internal
    He's a little kinder
    than he used to be, but...
[02:42] Anne; internal
    Still...
[02:44] Anne; internal
    Right now, the fact that
    he stays by my side is enough.
[02:50] Anne
    Oh!
[02:54] Kat
    Where are you looking,
    making your horse walk that way? You dolt!
[02:58] Anne
    Huh?
[02:58] Anne
    Oh!
[03:00] Anne
    Mister Kat...
[03:01] Anne
    and Benjamin?
[03:02] Kat
    Did you forget that I taught you
    not to call me "mister"?
[03:05] Kat
    You birdbrain!
[03:06] Anne
    I-I'm sorry.
[03:08] Kat
    Honestly.
[03:09] Kat
    We're reunited after a year,
    and this is how you say hello?
[03:13] Benjamin
    Long time no see!
[03:14] Challe
    Why is a cat who dislikes the cold
    wandering around Lewiston in the fall?
[03:19] Challe
    Readying for your hibernation?
[03:21] Challe
    Mister Kat?
[03:22] Kat
    Challe! You little...
[03:24] Anne
    But, really, why are you here in Lewiston?
[03:28] Anne
    Do you have an errand here or something?
[03:30] Kat
    What are you talking about?
    This year is special!
[03:33] Kat
    If I didn't come now, I wouldn't be able
    to do business next year, would I?
[03:36] Anne
    What?
[03:38] Kat
    Could it be that you don't know?
[03:40] Anne
    Know what?
[03:43] Kat
    Honestly, what a bunch of petty tightwads.
[03:48] Kat
    There's a place I go to
    all the time. Follow me.
[03:52] proprietress
    Oh! It's been a while, hasn't it?
[03:54] proprietress
    I never imagined that
    you all knew each other.
[03:57] Kat
    Despite how I appear,
    I'm good at looking after people.
[04:01] proprietress
    So, what have you been
    doing this past year, miss?
[04:04] proprietress
    Is your work going well?
[04:06] Anne
    Yes!
[04:07] Anne
    After wintering in Lewiston,
[04:09] Anne
    we went around visiting little towns
    and villages to sell sugar confections.
[04:14] proprietress
    Is that so? You've been working hard.
[04:17] proprietress
    Have you come back so that you
    can enter the Exhibition?
[04:19] Anne
    Yes.
[04:20] proprietress
    Well, it is that time of year, isn't it?
[04:22] male customer
    Proprietress!
[04:23] proprietress
    I'll be right there!
[04:27] Anne
    Um, Kat.
[04:28] Anne
    So, is this...
[04:31] Kat
    Since last winter, you've gone
    around to a lot of places, right?
[04:35] Kat
    You saw sugar apple trees
    along the way, didn't you?
[04:38] Kat
    Did you notice anything?
[04:43] Anne
    Everywhere we went,
    on every sugar apple tree we saw...
[04:46] Anne
    the flowers had set poorly.
[04:49] Anne
    I thought that the harvest this year
    would be a lot less than usual.
[04:53] Kat
    That's right.
[04:54] Kat
    This year, the sugar apple crop
    is unbelievably bad.
[04:58] Kat
    If, as in average years, everyone harvested
    their own however they wanted to...
[05:02] Kat
    it would likely lead to conflicts
    between factions.
[05:05] Kat
    To try to avert potential chaos, that dimwitted
    reprobate came up with an agreement.
[05:10] Anne
    Reprobate?
[05:11] Kat
    Hugh Mercury!
[05:12] Kat
    That dimwitted reprobate
    of a silver sugar viscount!
[05:15] Anne
    Oh, that's right.
[05:17] Anne
    So, what was the agreement?
[05:20] Kat
    This year, the harvest and refinement of
    sugar apples by individuals is forbidden.
[05:26] Anne
    Forbidden?
[05:28] Kat
    This year, all of the sugar apples
    throughout the kingdom
[05:32] Kate
    will be harvested in the name of
    the Silver Sugar Viscount, then refined.
[05:36] Kat
    Only those sugar artisans
    who participate in the process
[05:39] Kat
    will be allotted silver sugar commensurate
    with their labor. That's the edict.
[05:43] Anne
    Then, to secure ourselves some
    silver sugar, we have to ask Hugh for it?
[05:48] Kat
    It isn't that simple.
[05:50] Kat
    He's the one who decided it, but the one
    who has a monopoly on this work...
[05:55] Kat
    is the Radcliffe school.
[05:58] Kat
    The Radcliffe workshops
    in every corner of the kingdom
[06:02] Kat
    have already gathered up all the sugar
    apples harvested in their areas.
[06:06] Kat
    Both the Paige school and Mercury school...
[06:08] Kat
    are gathering in their workshops
    to help with the refining process.
[06:12] Kat
    There is no other way to obtain silver sugar.
[06:16] Anne
    But I hadn't heard anything about this.
[06:19] Kat
    It seems you hadn't.
[06:21] Kat
    That dimwitted reprobate's orders
    mean that even wanderers like us...
[06:25] Kat
    should have been informed by
    artisans of the Radcliffe school.
[06:30] Challe
    They deliberately failed
    to inform us, it seems.
[06:33] Challe
    Everywhere she went,
    she was harassed by them.
[06:36] Challe
    And it wasn't simply once or twice
    that they told her to get out of town.
[06:41] Kat
    That's why I called them petty tightwads.
[06:45] Kat
    Even I've heard rumors of the creator
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    of the former Duke of Philax's
    sugar confection, one Anne Halford.
[06:50] Kat
    It's no wonder some people are jealous.
[06:53] Kat
    Basically, they're ostracizing you.
[06:57] Anne
    Kat, if I want to enter the Sugar
    Confectionary Exhibition, what should I do?
[07:02] Mithril
    That's right!
[07:03] Mithril
    Participants need to have silver sugar
    they've refined themselves, right?
[07:07] Mithril
    They can't enter without it!
[07:09] Kat
    So, they didn't tell you about
    that either? Of course not.
[07:14] Kat
    Those who wish to enter the Exhibition
[07:16] Kat
    must temporarily reside at
    the main Radcliffe workshop. It's the rule.
[07:21] Kat
    There, they'll be allotted sugar apples.
[07:23] Kat
    They'll refine silver sugar from them
    that they can use to make their pieces.
[07:27] Kat
    But that's on the condition that they also
    assist in the joint refining process.
[07:32] Anne
    There isn't time.
[07:33] Kat
    That's right. The only time you'll have
    to work for yourself is at night.
[07:37] Kat
    That's why everyone who wanted to enter
[07:39] Kat
    arrived at the main workshop
    over two weeks ago.
[07:42] Anne; internal
    This was going to be the year that I made
    a sugar confection worthy of the festivities...
[07:46] Anne; internal
    and became a Silver Sugar Master. But now...
[07:51] Anne; internal
    I can't let something like this stop me!
[07:56] Anne
    It appears that I must go to
    the main Radcliffe workshop.
[08:01] Anne
    What do you think? Will both of you...
[08:03] Anne
    will you come with me?
[08:05] Mithril
    Anne, if you're going, I'd follow you
    to the depths of the underworld!
[08:09] Challe
    I will go with you.
[08:10] Challe
    Leaving a fool on her own will
    never lead to anything good.
[08:17] Kat
    Well, then. Let's go.
[08:19] Kat
    I'll show you the way.
[08:21] Kat
    But that's all.
[08:23] Kat
    If you're an artisan, then prevail over
    whatever comes your way on your own.
[08:28] Anne
    I will.
[08:30] Challe
    Then I suppose we'll have you lead the way.
[08:33] Challe
    Mister Kat.
[08:33] Kat
    I told you! Stop calling me "Mister Cat"!
[08:42] Anne
    All of the grounds within these walls
    belong to the main workshop?
[08:46] Mithril
    That's incredible!
[08:50] Jonas
    Then, if you'd just sign this
    on that desk over there.
[08:53] Kat
    Hey. I'll be joining the work too.
[08:56] Jonas
    Oh. Of course. And your name is...
[08:59] Jonas
    A-Anne?
[09:03] Anne
    Jonas.
[09:04] Kat
    You know him?
[09:05] Anne
    He's, well...
[09:06] Sammy
    Hey, Jonas!
[09:09] Sammy
    It's rude to keep people waiting!
[09:11] Sammy
    I'm so sorry.
[09:13] Sammy
    I'm the one in charge of
    reception here, Sammy Jones.
[09:16] Sammy
    You're Silver Sugar Master Alph Hingley,
    aren't you? I've heard of you.
[09:20] Sammy
    All I need is your signature here.
[09:22] Sammy
    I'll show you to your room.
[09:25] Kat
    Don't worry about me.
[09:26] Kat
    Deal with the person
    standing here behind me instead.
[09:30] Sammy
    And who are you?
[09:32] Anne
    I've also come to participate
    in refining the silver sugar.
[09:35] Anne
    And I intend to enter
    the Sugar Confectionary Exhibition.
[09:39] Sammy
    What? A woman entering?
[09:41] Sammy
    I know the type.
[09:43] Sammy
    People who can't make
    a decent sugar confection
[09:45] Sammy
    and still declare themselves sugar artisans.
[09:47] Sammy
    We couldn't possibly let a woman
    like that into the workshop.
[09:51] Anne
    I am a sugar artisan.
[09:53] Anne
    There is someone who has
    formally acknowledged my skills.
[09:56] Sammy
    Who? Your mom?
[09:59] Anne
    The former Duke of Philax.
[10:04] Sammy
    You're Anne Halford? I've heard of you.
[10:07] Sammy
    They say you set Jonas up
    at the Exhibition last year.
[10:10] Anne
    What?
[10:11] Sammy
    And on top of that, I've heard that you
    seduced the Silver Sugar Viscount.
[10:15] Sammy
    The Duke of Philax, too.
    Who knows what you did to earn his favor?
[10:18] Anne
    What did you say?
[10:19] Sammy
    Well, regardless of who you may be,
    you won't be allowed inside.
[10:23] Anne
    Why not?!
[10:25] Sammy
    You've got a companion fairy
    with you, don't you?
[10:28] Sammy
    Only people involved in the work
[10:30] SAmmy
    and labor fairies are allowed
    in the workshop. That's the rule.
[10:34] Sammy
    If you want to work in this workshop,
[10:35] Sammy
    first go and sell that fairy!
[10:37] Anne
    Challe isn't a companion fairy!
[10:39] Sammy
    It's the rules!
[10:39] Sammy
    Now, go away! Go on!
[10:41] Sammy
    Clean yourself up and come try again!
[10:45] Keith
    That's enough unseemly behavior, Sammy.
[10:49] Sammy
    Keith, I was only...
[10:51] Keith
    You will tarnish the name
    of the Radcliffe Workshop.
[10:55] Keith
    Please be quiet before I become displeased.
[11:03] Anne
    Who are you?
[11:18] Keith
    My associate spoke very rudely.
[11:20] Keith
    Please forgive him.
[11:24] Keith
    Keith Powell, sugar artisan.
    Pleased to meet you.
[11:29] Anne
    Oh! The pleasure is mine! I'm Anne Halford.
[11:32] Kat
    Hey, Powell!
[11:34] Kat
    I didn't know you were affiliated
    with the Radcliffe school.
[11:36] Keith
    It's good to see you again, Mister Hingley.
[11:39] Sammy
    Keith, this woman has
    a companion fairy with her.
[11:43] Sammy
    We can't allow them inside.
[11:45] Sammy
    Those are the rules.
[11:45] Anne
    He isn't a companion fairy!
    He's a warrior fairy!
[11:50] Keith
    This is...
[11:52] Keith
    Amazing.
[11:54] Keith
    I've never seen such a beautiful fairy.
[12:00] Keith
    Say, Anne. You don't want
    to relinquish him, do you?
[12:04] Anne
    He doesn't serve me.
[12:07] Anne
    He's a dear friend. It's only that
    I don't want to be away from him.
[12:12] Keith
    In that case, there is a way
    you can enter the workshop together.
[12:17] Keith
    This year, I'm planning to enter
    the Sugar Confectionary Exhibition.
[12:21] Keith
    I'd like to create a piece
    using him as my model.
[12:26] Anne
    Your model?
[12:27] Keith
    To that purpose,
    I'd like to borrow him when necessary.
[12:30] Keith
    If you would consent to that,
    then he would be allowed to come in.
[12:34] Anne
    Borrow? He isn't some
    belonging of mine, he's...
[12:37] Challe
    That will work. Show us the papers.
[12:39] Anne
    Challe?
[12:40] Challe
    I will do this trivial thing.
[12:43] Challe
    Do you want to be away from me?
[13:00] Anne
    All right.
[13:04] Keith
    This is where the artisans sleep.
[13:07] Keith
    The regular artisans
    stay together in one large room.
[13:09] Keith
    Private rooms are for silver sugar masters,
[13:11] Keith
    or for those of an equivalent skill level,
    as determined by the master of the school.
[13:18] Keith
    Anne, this will be your room.
[13:20] Anne
    What? I have a private room, too?
[13:23] Keith
    We can't allow a lady to sleep
    in the large room with everyone else.
[13:29] Keith
    This is my room, so if you
    need anything, please let me know.
[13:33] Mithril
    A bed!
[13:38] Challe
    What's wrong?
[13:39] Anne
    I was thinking about how
    Keith has a private room too.
[13:42] Anne
    They must find his skills worthy of it.
[13:44] Mithril
    That Jonas is different though!
    In spite of how arrogant he is!
[13:48] Anne
    And Keith seems to be
    an acquaintance of Kat's, too.
[13:50] Anne
    I wonder who he could be.
[14:00] Anne
    Oh dear.
[14:02] Challe
    You're a lot like a squirrel.
[14:04] Anne
    A squirrel? That's so much
    cuter than a scarecrow!
[14:07] Challe
    There's no calmness to you.
[14:08] Challe
    You look exactly like a squirrel
    darting around looking for food.
[14:12] Anne
    I knew it. That is what you meant.
[14:14] Anne; internal
    My hair.
[14:16] Anne; internal
    Would I look more grown up if I left it down?
[14:19] Anne; internal
    I wonder which way Challe likes better.
[14:22] Challe
    Are you trying to break
    the mirror by force of will?
[14:25] Anne
    I was only trying to see
    if my hair looked all right.
[14:32] Challe
    It looks as it always does. No problems here.
[14:38] Anne
    Say, Challe?
[14:40] Anne
    Challe, would tied back hair be...
[14:44] Challe
    Hair?
[14:47] Anne
    It's nothing! Never mind!
[14:49] Anne
    I'll be off now!
[14:56] Anne
    I'm asking the same things
    as Mithril Lid Pod now.
[15:00] Anne
    Starting today, I have to work
    as hard as I possibly can.
[15:03] Anne
    All right!
[15:09] Keith
    Anne. Good morning.
[15:11] Anne
    Good morning, Keith.
    Are you starting work now, too?
[15:15] Keith
    I don't have a shift today.
[15:16] Keith
    Once every seven days,
    we each receive a day off in turns.
[15:20] Keith
    So, I was hoping to borrow Challe.
[15:22] Anne
    Keith, Challe can't be lent or borrowed.
[15:26] Keith
    Oh, that's right.
    Challe is your dear friend, isn't he?
[15:30] Keith
    I'm sorry. I phrased that poorly.
[15:32] Anne
    It's all right. More importantly,
    I wanted to say thank you for yesterday.
[15:35] Anne
    You really saved me.
    But why are you treating me so kindly?
[15:40] Keith
    Anne, you are an artisan who has been
    acknowledged by the former Duke of Philax.
[15:44] Keith
    I have no reason to be mean to you.
[15:46] Keith
    Besides...
[15:48] Keith
    our circumstances are a lot alike, you and I.
[15:51] Anne
    Our circumstances?
[15:53] Keith
    Anne, Emma Halford is your mother, isn't she?
[15:57] Anne
    You've heard of her?
[16:00] Keith
    When I was perhaps four or five
    years old, I met Madame Halford.
[16:06] Keith
    I was surprised that a female
    silver sugar master existed.
[16:13] Anne
    You met Mama?
[16:16] Keith
    My father is Edward Powell.
[16:19] Keith
    He's a silver sugar master,
    just like your mother.
[16:22] Anne
    Edward Powell?
[16:26] Anne
    The previous Silver Sugar Viscount?
[16:29] Keith
    That's right.
[16:30] Keith
    That's why I had many opportunities
    to meet silver sugar masters.
[16:34] Keith
    It's also how I met Mister Hingley.
[16:36] Anne
    My mother told me.
[16:38] Anne
    He was a wonderful Silver Sugar Viscount
    who served for over twenty years.
[16:43] Anne
    And if I remember rightly, about
    six months before Mama passed away...
[16:47] Keith
    Yes. He died of an illness.
[16:50] Keith
    But I don't know if he was wonderful or not.
[16:54] Keith
    When my father was the Silver Sugar Viscount,
[16:56] Keith
    there was a year like this one,
    where the sugar apple harvest was dismal.
[17:00] Keith
    Apparently, it caused a lot of chaos.
[17:03] Keith
    My father always regretted that.
[17:05] Anne
    Your father came from
    the Paige school, didn't he?
[17:09] Anne
    Why are you with the Radcliffe school?
[17:11] Keith
    If I joined the Paige school,
    I'd get special treatment as Powell's son.
[17:16] Keith
    I hated the idea of that.
[17:19] Keith
    Here, I'd be treated as just another artisan.
[17:23] Keith
    That's what I thought, at least.
[17:25] Keith
    But it doesn't seem much different.
[17:27] Keith
    I respected my father, but the situation
    was uncomfortably restrictive, too.
[17:32] Keith
    And while my father was alive,
    I couldn't enter the Exhibition.
[17:36] Anne
    Why not?
[17:37] Keith
    Because if I received the Royal Medal,
    all those critics would gossip,
[17:41] Keith
    saying that because I was
    the Silver Sugar Viscount's son,
[17:44] Keith
    the royal family thought of me favorably.
[17:47] Keith
    And if I didn't receive it,
[17:48] Keith
    they'd gossip about me failing in spite of
    being the Silver Sugar Viscount's son.
[17:51] Keith
    I couldn't participate for the sake of
    my father's reputation.
[17:55] Keith
    But that ended last year.
[17:58] Keith
    Now that the mourning period has ended,
    this year, I can enter the Exhibition.
[18:05] Keith
    So, I was thinking of working
    on my piece today.
[18:09] Keith
    Is Challe in your room?
[18:10] Anne
    Oh. Yes.
[18:12] Anne
    If you ask him, I think he will help you.
[18:15] Keith
    All right.
[18:16] Keith
    Well then, Anne, do your best out there.
[18:21] Anne; internal
    Keith isn't letting
    his circumstances stop him.
[18:26] Anne; internal
    I won't either.
[18:27] Anne; internal
    I can't let him beat me!
[18:35] Keith
    Sorry to ask this of you
    so early in the morning.
[18:37] Challe
    I made a promise. I'll do anything.
[18:40] Challe
    Shall I do a handstand?
    Or should I take my clothes off?
[18:43] Challe
    State your orders quickly, boy.
[18:46] Keith
    You and I don't appear
    all that different in age, but all right.
[18:50] Keith
    If you'll stand by the window
    over there, that will be enough.
[18:54] Keith
    I simply want to study your air
    and appearance, that's all.
[18:58] Keith
    Things must be hard for Anne.
[18:59] Keith
    The rest of us have already refined
    the silver sugar we need for the Exhibition.
[19:04] Keith
    Since she's had a late start,
    she's only starting on it now, right?
[19:06] Challe
    Thanks to the fact that
[19:08] Challe
    your fellows didn't inform her
    of the unusual circumstances this year.
[19:11] Challe
    Are you glad about that?
[19:14] Keith
    They didn't tell her?
[19:16] Keith
    Honestly, every single one of them...
[19:19] Keith
    Such cowardly behavior is disgraceful.
[19:21] Keith
    I hate it.
[19:24] Keith
    But I'm glad that Anne is entering
    the Exhibition this year.
[19:29] Keith
    The artisans gathered here
    won't be any competition for me, you see.
[19:34] Keith
    There's a rumor that the Royal Medal
    will go to Sammy this year,
[19:38] Keith
    but if you ask me,
    he isn't even worth a mention.
[19:41] Keith
    Jonas is capable of creating good pieces,
    but he's missing a crucial element.
[19:46] Keith
    If Anne is participating,
    then this feels more worth doing.
[19:49] Keith
    You see, I've been wanting
    an opponent of equal skill.
[19:52] Keith
    And...
[19:54] Keith
    this will likely be the only year I get to
     compete with Anne in the Exhibition.
[19:59] Keith
    I'm lucky enough to have been here
    for Anne's last chance.
[20:05] Challe
    Last chance?
[20:06] Keith
    That's right.
[20:08] Keith
    If she doesn't become
    a silver sugar master this year...
[20:12] Keith
    then she may not ever be able to.
[20:17] Keith
    Anne drew too much attention to herself.
[20:19] Keith
    With the events of last year's Exhibition,
[20:21] Keith
    and those with the former Duke of Philax,
    she's become the object of much jealousy.
[20:25] Keith
    If everyone were able to secure sugar
    apples themselves, as in an average year,
[20:30] Keith
    Anne would have encountered
    some obstruction in obtaining them.
[20:33] Keith
    That's why this was actually
    a stroke of good fortune.
[20:35] Keith
    Because if she participates in the joint work,
    she'll be able to procure some.
[20:40] Keith
    But things won't work out
    this way in the future.
[20:42] Keith
    She'll never be able to obtain sugar apples.
[20:46] Keith
    Please don't tell Anne about this.
[20:50] Keith
    I don't want her to feel
    any additional pressure.
[20:53] Keith
    I want to compete with her fairly.
SIGN    The Radcliffe Workshop
[21:16] ---
    Is it just like the dreams we dream at night?
[21:21] ---
    Do we give names to our other dreams because,
[21:26] ---
    Just as our night dreams
    are forgotten upon waking,
[21:30] ---
    If they aren't held dear,
    they will disappear?
[21:37] ---
    No, it's because they aren't things
    that only special people can see
[21:48] ---
    That day
[21:49] ---
    I reached out again and again
[21:53] ---
    I failed to catch that shining fruit, and yet
[21:59] ---
    I'll reach out once more
[22:04] ---
    If I make my wishes come true myself
[22:08] ---
    I just know it will make you smile
[22:14] ---
    That's why I'm able to say I'm not giving up
SIGN    The Young Lady of the Paige Workshop