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I am life.
I am death.
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I give everything.
But I take all.
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I am the Savage Kingdom.
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There is one that rises above them all.
Saba, the phantom assassin, watches everything.
Living alone, hunting alone.
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Stealth is her greatest weapon.
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She can kill almost anything.
But birds are her speciality.
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She is perfect,
but for a small nick to her ear.
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The march of giants means the rains are coming.
This means it's time for more cubs.
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But killers control her lands, looking for weakness.
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They'll show no mercy to you, Saba, or any of your young.
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But Saba has her place of safety.
Leopard Rock.
Within its rocks and crevices,
she can simply...
disappear.
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It is your place to have and hide young.
If your offspring live on,
your bloodline lives on.
Nothing else matters.
Leopard Rock is fortress and home.
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The wet season is here.
Saba has seen it a dozen times before.
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The rain that baptizes a new generation.
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Infusing new life.
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Plenty of life.
Plenty of food.
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It is time to have a family.
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Your time to give up your solitude
and share your castle with a king.
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The rains move on, leaving life everywhere.
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With perfect timing, Saba reveals her secret.
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Her daughter takes bold steps.
Her more timid son stays close to the den.
Their different natures foretell their future.
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The cubs are safe for now,
sheltered from the murder and mayhem below.
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Saba has work to do.
She must leave her newborns home alone.
She has to secure her borders.
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Every hill hides a killer.
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Saba has a rival with a curled tail and deeply torn ears.
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If Torn Ear finds your cubs, she will kill them.
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You would do the same.
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Saba sends a clear message.
This is mine. Back off.
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She has Torn Ear's full attention.
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Leopard Rock.
Saba's stony fortress.
This rare stronghold for the innocent
gives her cubs a few carefree moments.
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Keep a watchful eye over them, Saba.
Your family is everything.
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It is only you and this rock that can protect them.
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Outlaws rampage through their land below.
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Even Saba's king trembles.
Dogs are a lone hunter's worst enemy.
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Catch you and they will tear you apart!
There's a long and bloody history here.
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This hatred runs deep.
Frustrated and impatient to kill,
the gang spreads out to search Leopard Rock.
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Freeze.
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Don't move a whisker.
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The kingdom shows mercy.
The dogs pass like a bad dream.
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But bad dreams have a habit of returning.
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Get them somewhere safer.
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The cubs are home alone.
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Saba is away hunting.
No meat for you means no milk for them.
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The more you fail, the longer your cubs go hungry.
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A hunting leopard is an absent mother.
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Her daughter is hungry and impatient.
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She leaves the den and her more timid brother behind...
...and wanders down towards the edge.
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Time is running out.
Find something quickly.
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Saba remembered this owl's hiding place.
An emergency ration set aside for a day like this.
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Matsumi.
The huntress of the marsh pride is looking for a den of her own.
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She heads towards Saba's stronghold.
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Saba is finally home.
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But her calls go unanswered.
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Find them.
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Where are you?
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Saba finds her cubs.
But it's too late.
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The kingdom's cruel winds blow.
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Change sweeps across the land.
The great marsh has drained, and the great thirst begins.
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Everyone follows the water.
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Killers are drawn dangerously close to Leopard Rock.
But Saba's former stronghold lies abandoned.
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Up on the sand ridge, Saba lives in hiding with her son, Neo.
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He is all that matters now.
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A month older, he is bigger and hungrier than ever.
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There is no choice; she must provide.
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Cover gone, she will have to work harder to find food.
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The pressure of the dry season rises with the heat.
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Saba's rival, Torn Ear, gets lucky.
But she's old and vulnerable.
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And everybody knows it.
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On this battlefield,
nothing is missed.
Raw competition is the heartbeat of the kingdom.
To show weakness is to show your throat.
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Neo, still alone, waits for his mother's return.
Caution saved his life.
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But no cat can contain curiosity forever.
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Saba goes further from Neo.
Time is running out.
It's kill or die.
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There is no truce between felines in this kingdom.
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A long way back.
Need to get moving.
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It's been days already.
Relieved and hungrier than ever...
...he can't contain himself.
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Wild cat is his first taste of meat.
He does not know how lucky he is
to feast in these desperate times.
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As the last waters vanish,
the river channel becomes a place of death.
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Matsumi's pride now hunts its banks.
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With all her kills stolen,
the aging Torn Ear slowly starves.
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This is no kingdom for the old.
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Saba's long distance hunting is taking its toll.
She needs a big kill, close.
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She moves Neo once more.
Avoiding Leopard Rock, she chooses a smaller hill
near the drying river channel.
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Saba leaves Neo yet again to hunt.
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Find food, no matter how long it takes.
Keep trying.
Never give up.
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A desperate Saba braves the drying river channel.
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By day, it's dangerous.
By night, suicidal.
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Saba's survival instincts take over.
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A long, hard struggle for life finally ends.
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Torn Ear, Saba's rival, is dead.
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How many still need to die before the kingdom is satisfied?
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Neo, still alone, anxiously waits.
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But it's not his mother he hears.
They cannot see you, Neo, but they smell you.
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They know you are there.
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Survive the kingdom's last deadliest phase...
...and you may just live to see the rains.
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Saba is still on the drying channel.
Salvation may lie under her nose.
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This could feed us both.
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Drag it to a hiding place,
there are more to be had.
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She returns again and again.
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Survival fuels her frenzy.
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Exhausted, she cannot kill anymore.
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It's now time to fetch Neo.
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Saba, you've been pushed to breaking point.
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You've been through hell,
through torment and loss.
And you've emerged on the other side alive.