- Red Sonja: No man may have me, unless he's beaten me in a fair fight.
- Kalidor: So, the only man that can have you, is one who's trying to kill you. That's logic.
- [Red Sonja goes and lies down. Kalidor picks up his sword and holds it to her throat]
- Kalidor: If you yield only to a conqueror, then prepared to be conquered... Little Sonja...
- Red Sonja: Don't be a fool, I don't want to kill you.
- Kalidor: Try it.
- Prince Tarn: Why does she fight so hard? She doesn't want to win.
- Brytag: I will tell the future in your entrails, Red Woman!
- Red Sonja: I know my future. You have none.
- Kyobo: Hatred of men in a lovely young woman... Such could be your downfall.
- Red Sonja: I don't hate ALL men, Grandmaster.
- Kyobo: Those words would have brought music to my heart, thirty years ago.
- Red Sonja: Falkon, may I give you a word of advice? Put him over your knee and beat some manners into him.
- Brytag: I'm going to feed your eyes to the birds, red-hair!
- Red Sonja: I don't need eyes to find you, I can smell you at a hundred paces!
- Gedren's Handmaid: [her only line] She's gone. Oh, I'm so glad that you've come. Please, will you protect me? I'm so frightened.
- Kalidor: I'm not a mercenary. No body pays me. And if I feel someone one owes me, I take it.
- Red Sonja: What happened?
- Falkon: What happened? Queen Gedren attacked us is what happened.
- Red Sonja: Gedren? Queen Gedren?
- Falkon: That's right. She knocked down half the city with her new weapon and demanded our surrender.
- Prince Tarn: My army ran away. Do they want to live forever? I refused to surrender.
- Falkon: So she knocked down the other half.
- Kalidor: I know you're a brave girl, but danger is my TRADE.
- Red Sonja: If danger is a trade, I'll learn it by myself.
- Red Sonja: You're mad! The Talisman will destroy you!
- Brytag: This is my land. All that pass through pay me tribute.
- Red Sonja: How much, Brytag?
- Brytag: Who mentioned money? Tribute, I said. The tender kind all women pay to Brytag.
- Red Sonja: (drawing her sword) Suppose I don't. Suppose, instead, I open up that great, fat belly of yours?
- Red Sonja: But why didn't you tell me who you were?
- Kalidor: You didn't seem to want a man's help. But you needed it, so that's why I followed you. I had to be sure you reached the talisman.
- Red Sonja: I see, I misunderstood. I thought you had another reason.
- Kalidor: I did. (He kisses her.)
- Ikol: [referring to the Killer of the Icthyan Caverns] My Queen, this pet of yours is difficult for the rest of us to control; there can be no guarantees that something won't... well, go wrong.
- Queen Gedren: If anything does, YOU will be its next victim.
- Prince Tarn: [upon finding the Great Pearl of the Icthyan Caverns] This could buy me an army, or even rebuild Habloc! Dig it out, Falkon!
- Falkon: Your Highness, this pearl may BELONG to somebody.
- Prince Tarn: It does! And he wants it NOW!
- Swordmaster: Magnificent. You have nothing more to learn, Sonja. You are the master of the master. Never have I seen your equal. You must learn to like men a little better.
- Ikol: [to little Prince Tarn] I'm afraid Your Highness' growth is going to be stunted permanently.
- Brytag: [Upon being challenged by Sonja to a death-duel, in lieu of paying "tender tribute"] Woman, I have fought 177 men. Only one survives, and he has no legs. *You DARE to mock Brytag?*
- Red Sonja: That takes no daring. But when I've killed you will your warriors let me go unharmed?
- Brytag: *When you've KILLED me!*
- Brytag: [laughs scornfully] When this wench has killed me, you will let her go, won't you?
- Ikol: [Gedren's fortress continues to shunt aside the Talisman's earthquakes and storms. In her throne room...] Majesty, the Talisman is almost beyond control. We must bury it in the dark before it is too late.
- Queen Gedren: It'll be buried when I have no further use for it, and that time shall come with the end of time itself.
- Ikol: *It will kill us all.* Majesty, what do you want? Our vaults are brimming with gold. Great kingdoms live in terror of us! *What more is there?*
- Queen Gedren: The *world,* Ikol! Today we took the kingdom of Toktyl. But I have wider claims, and the Talisman will enforce them!
- Ikol: Madness. There will be no world.
- [flees the throne room]
- Ikol: ... THERE WILL BE NO WORLD!
- [Gedren laughs amid the chaos]
- Kalidor: Where are you going?
- Red Sonja: Hablok
- Kalidor: Wait. I'll come with you.
- Red Sonja: Why should you? It's no business of yours. And neither am I.
- Kalidor: You may be wrong on both accounts. I know you're a brave girl, but danger is my trade.
- Red Sonja: Then I'll learn it by myself
- Kalidor: [Sonja tries to leave, but Kalidor holds the horse] Don't make me angry, Kalidor. I don't need any mans help.
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