NOTE: This is a long script. While it would be awesome if you did it all -- feel free to do the parts that stand out to you. I include lines of other characters for context -- but only read the lines for Reina, please.

REMINDER: Ellipsis usually means a pause

---Setting: A prison cell in a military fort's dungeon ----

REINA: Let me out!!

*Reina tries to flee from her cage, until Arthur (the player and MC stops her)*

REINA: Noo! He sent you! He must have sent you here!

Arthur: Be calm, my lady. No one sent me, I am here to free the prisoners.

REINA: Lies! He sent you here, I know it!

Arthur: I am not going to hurt you.

Arthur: Here, let’s get you back on your feet.

REINA: Don’t touch me!

Arthur: ... I brought you something to eat. I'll lay it down here.

*Arthur lays a tray of food on the floor and backs away*

REINA : ... (here, a concerned groan saying "ooh". Like you're hungry)

*Reina looks at the plate reluctantly, and decides to kneel to eat it*

REINA : Thank you.

REINA: Please forgive me, I haven’t seen anyone in a long time.

REINA: The only person who comes here is… that man….

Arthur: No harm done.

Arthur: My lady, can you explain what transpired here?

REINA: Oh, where to begin...

REINA: I was working at my father's tavern. Serving drinks, tending the tables.

REINA: He was a good man, my father. He wanted me to go to Lethe and study healing arts. (NOTE: Lethe is pronounced LEE-TH)

REINA: Said I was too good to waste away in my village forever.

REINA: One night, some... questionable folks came in to dine.

REINA: Foul, beastly men. Barged in, demanding ale and two whole chickens.

REINA: They wore red cloaks with an emblem I couldn't make out. Mercenaries or members of some guild.

REINA: I gathered my courage and tried to put on a smile, as I went over to serve their meals.

REINA: They had no manners and were getting too friendly with me…

REINA: Father was furious! He ran over, axe in hand, demanding that they release me.

REINA: I saw them...

REINA: I-I saw them...

REINA: I saw them murder my father!

REINA: *sob* (Reina begins lightly sobbing)

REINA: Before they killed him, they made him watch as they...

REINA: As they...

REINA: *sob* (Reina breaks down into heavy sobbing)

Harold: How atrocious! Those beasts are pure scum, scourge of the earth! 

Harold: Wretched men, preying on the weak…

*Arthur breathes a heavy sigh after hearing her story*

Arthur: My lady, I am very sorry. There are no words to describe the pain you must feel.

Arthur: Are you able to continue? I do not want to inflict more suffering by having you recount the past.

REINA (still crying, trying to gather herself): Yes… Yes. *sniffle*. I will tell you what happened from there.

REINA: Once I’d awoken, I found myself tightly shackled.

REINA: I was gagged, so none could hear my cries for help. 

REINA: I only heard the sounds of the horses walking and felt the bumps in the carriage, as they rode.

REINA: When the moving stopped, they grabbed me.

REINA: Led me into a room, threw me in, and locked the door. 

REINA: I was so... frightened...

REINA: I was in that room for what felt like days.

REINA: Every few hours, a slot would open in the door.

REINA: It was food. Good food. Better than what we'd serve at the tavern.

REINA: That was all that was keeping me sane, the meals there. (NOTE: You can say "keeping me going" instead, if you prefer")

REINA: Until, for the first time, the door opened. 

REINA: My eyes ran from the light, after being kept in the darkness.

REINA: It was an old woman. She looked like a nun, with the headdress and all.

REINA: She smiled at me, told me I was going home.

REINA: How I cried... Salvation, at last. As if God shone down upon me, grasping me from the pits of hell.

REINA: But, my elation didn't last. (NOTE: You may add "It never does:)

REINA: Next thing I knew, she drew me a bath. Had people doing my hair and gave me a dress to wear.

REINA: A fine dress. Finer than any I'd ever worn in my life.

REINA: She grabbed my hand gently, and said: "Walk with me."

REINA: And I did.

REINA: I saw decadent halls, golden candlesticks, and fine banners. It was clear that I was in a mansion.

REINA: I'd thought, perhaps, I was rescued by some fine duke... <waitfor=0.5> How silly of me.

REINA: She opened the door and we walked onto a stage.

REINA: It was a huge opera house with masked men in the audience.

REINA: I'd thought it was a masquerade of some sort. I'd hear in the tavern, how the nobles enjoyed such things.

REINA: The lady I'd thought to be my saviour took a bow.. and left me.

REINA: Alone on stage with another suited man. That's when it began...

REINA: The man started calling out numbers and hands would raise in the audience.

REINA: I didn't understand. I'd seen my father haggle at the market, it felt like that.

REINA: That's when I knew... 

REINA: I was... being sold...

Arthur: Even being after outlawed throughout the country...

Arthur: The black market slave trade still endures...

Harold: Then, Lord Eustace… is a slaver?!

Harold: It was he who insisted that no other knight shall enter these dungeons. 

Harold: I knew he was depraved, but... this is pure wickedness!

REINA: Yes, it was he who won the auction that night.

REINA: I still can see his lecherous smile under that mask...

REINA: He told me I was to be his pleasure.

REINA: That I would help him relax after his campaigns, or I'd pay the price.

REINA: I've been rotting in this wretched place ever since.

Arthur: What a terrible man… My lady, is there anyone else suffering the same fate?

REINA: Yes, there is another woman, the next cell over…

REINA: She was here before me. I do not know her name, she doesn't talk.

REINA: Not that I haven't tried, but her mind... is lost. 

REINA: The drugs have taken their toll.

REINA: When Eustace brings our food, he puts things in it. I noticed it after my first few days here.

REINA: It made me sick. Very sick. I started refusing to eat.

REINA: He didn't like that. He beat me. Tried force it down my mouth.

REINA: I'd throw it all up, after he'd gone.

REINA: He noticed how sickly I'd become and decided to give me untainted food.

REINA: Can't have his precious merchandise dying on him, can he? Not after paying so much.

Arthur: My lady, you're much stronger than you know...

Arthur: I will get you both to safety, I swear it. Your cell is open, but wait here a little longer.

Arthur: If you try to escape alone, the knights above will find you.

REINA: I will wait here.