- [last lines]
- Empress Chabi: Just look at me!
- Kokachin: Mother, please.
- Empress Chabi: Shh!
- Kokachin: [protesting as naked man enters her chamber] The child will not have full royal blood.
- Empress Chabi: Actually the child will have no royal blood.
- [first lines]
- Kublai Khan: [wakes suddenly panting]
- Empress Chabi: Genghis...
- Empress Chabi: [both rise and walk to different parts of the room] From death Genghis travels to your dreams to voice his great displeasure.
- Kublai Khan: He does not.
- Empress Chabi: Then why visit you night after night? To laud your actions?
- [sighs]
- Empress Chabi: And now, the people riot. They shut down your Chinese streets.
- Kublai Khan: It is the Song that riot from grief over their Emperor. I have torn from them their last remaining hope. Exactly as I wished to.
- Empress Chabi: We'll see how your brothers cast their votes.
- Kublai Khan: Kaidu could die as well. Die very easily.
- Empress Chabi: How many elections will you run off with? How many opponents murdered? And all for what? That you may kill children with impunity?
- Kublai Khan: Think, my Chabi, think. When was the last time?
- Empress Chabi: Last time what?
- Kublai Khan: Last time you did something hard? Something that made your delicate stomach turn? Something that you did not think could ever, ever be forgiven?
- Empress Chabi: Kublai...
- Kublai Khan: You did not. Because it is only I. I, I, I. I took the wall, I executed my brother, I do what must be done for our empire.
- Kublai Khan: [to Marco about growling wolf] He shows himself. Don't move. Don't blink. Don't show your teeth. You can't retreat. You can't attack. You have to stare down the wolf.
- Arban: No man who leads is pure of heart.
- Khutulun: Will that be the watchword at your first Kurultai?
- Arban: I will win based on looks and strength alone.
- Khutulun: Looks, strength, and dumber than goat shit. Better start learning your words of Genghis. Do you suppose it's possible to be both pure of heart, and impure at the same time?
- Arban: To order men to death is not the work of the unclouded.
- Khutulun: Is that what it is to be leader? Ordering men to death? You might do well finding ways to avoid it.
- Arban: A woman's way.
- Khutulun: You only call me female when there's no other way to say I'm wrong.
- Arban: Either way, I'm a far better choice than our Chinese Prince.
- Empress Chabi: [stopping her from uncovering her food] I'm sure you know that certain foods, certain delicacies, assist greatly with the goal of pregnancy. Are they pleasant? No. Are they sumptuous? No, but we can eat or be eaten.
- [sighs]
- Empress Chabi: The Kurultai fast approaches.
- Kokachin: Yes, I know.
- Empress Chabi: Do you also know that it is imperative for Jingim to have an heir before then? You will swell, Blue Princess, or the Great Khan will surely lose.
- Kokachin: I would do anything for my Khan.
- [uncovers the food, a bloody foul]
- Kokachin: Beautiful. And terrible.
- [begins to eat it with her hands]
- Ahmad: How dare you?
- Orus: [coming down off his horse] Shut your mouth.
- Ahmad: You can address me as Vice Regent.
- Khutulun: [from a distance] Orus! Come on.
- Orus: I can address you as Sand Worshipper. Or Bastard. Or Lackey to a fat and useless Khan.
- [draws his blade and slices Ahmad's horse]
- Ahmad: [screams as his horse falls pinning his leg]
- Prince Jingim: They got us this time, Ahmad. Come on. Let's go.
- Ahmad: [screaming as Jingim attempts to pull him free]