You are a danger to yourself
Remaining, and a danger to my throne.
All I have said is true. Have you not broken
Your vow?

CARLOMAN.

I have.

PEPIN.

And are you not a rebel?

CARLOMAN.

I am, I am, because I am alive—
And not a slave who sleeps through Time, unable
To share its agitation. What, go back!
You might as well dismiss me to the womb
From which I was delivered.

PEPIN.

Of yourself
You left the world.

CARLOMAN.