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So...
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| Zeus: |
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What
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| Rose: |
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So
what did you want to show me? |
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| Zeus: |
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Well…I
wanted to show how the colors change in the sky at sunset.
I can’t wait, they’re amazing.
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| Rose: |
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Sunset…Oh
no I got to get home before sunset!
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| Zeus: |
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Huh…you
mean you have to leave? |
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| Rose: |
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Yes,
as much as I want to stay I can’t…you see…my
dad’s the king. If I’m not home he’ll send
the guard to come looking for me. I have to leave. |
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| Zeus: |
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I thought
you said you wanted to be free. You said that you felt
free with me. I can’t be without you. You have
to stay. You make me complete. You fill the emptiness
that lies in my heart. (Tears fill his eyes.)
Please, I need you to stay.
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| Rose: |
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I-I
j-just can’t. Please don’t do this to me. I
have to go back. I still have a family (by the word
“family” Zeus looks to the ground) –
who I still love.
(Zeus is still looking down and play freezes.) |
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| Zeus: |
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(Aside)
I don’t know what to do. She says she has to leave.
Why does she need to leave? Why does this luck always
have to come my way. Why can’t I keep the happiness
that’s in my heart. Why can’t I keep the joy
I feel when she is near. Why can’t I keep her smile.
Her touch. Why can’t I keep her. I don’t know
what I’ll do when she leaves. I’ll probably
go back to the same old stuff, but now I will have a bigger
hole of being depressed. I need her in my life……I
know what I’ll do…I will go with her. Yeah I
will go with her. I need a family, if only they would
accept me, but these are the ones who took mine when I
was young. What if they recognize who I am and try to
kill me? (and with a deep thought says) I am willing
to die for the chance to have a family with the one and
only one I ever loved.
(He looks up with confidence.)
I think you should go.
(Rose looks puzzled.)
I think you should go…and I’ll come with you. |
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| Rose: |
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No…oh
no no no. My family will kill- |
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| Zeus: |
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As
they killed my family. Yes I know, but I am willing to
die to express the love I have for you. I am willing to
take that chance if it means that I have a chance to be
with the one I love. |
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| Rose: |
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What
do you mean they killed your family. (looking insulted) |
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Well…not
your family but the red lions, when I was a baby. My mom
was murdered by one of them. Then my father and my brother
went to avenge her death and then I never heard from them
again. They put me on this tree on that branch where we
were just sitting. I was still a baby, but old enough
to remember. |
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| Rose: |
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Well…why
didn’t you tell me this before? (looking sorry)
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| Zeus: |
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I
don’t know. I didn’t want you to feel…I
don’t know…bad. |
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| Rose: |
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Well
I’m glad you told me. I just can’t have you
come with me. I love you that’s why I can’t
have you come. |
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| Zeus: |
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Please,
listen to me. Give me a chance. Even if it’s a
one in a million, that’s still a chance for me…for
us. I can’t risk not ever seeing you again, but
I can risk my life to be with you forever.
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Please,
the sun is starting to set, and I can’t have that
on my conscience.
(Then she starts to cry Play freezes.)
(Aside)
I don’t know what I’m gonna do. I love him
and he says he loves me. He said he would go with me,
but how is my family gonna take it if I show up with
him. I don’t want him hurt. I love him. He lets
me be a free spirit. He can tell when I need space,
and around him I don’t need much. He taught me
so much, even how to hunt. I am my own cat around him.
I fear that my family won’t accept him being around
me and will kill him if he comes. I wish my family would
understand. I know I would be happy with him. I could
explore with or without him even though I think I would
prefer him around. He makes me feel open. He makes me
feel special. (and with a deep thought says) If they
think they’re going to kill him…I will gladly
die before him.
(still crying, now says to Zeus) Okay…but
if you think you’re gonna die before me you’re
wrong!!!
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| Zeus: |
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What do
you mean! (he says worried)
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| Rose: |
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I mean,
they’re gonna most likely kill you, but they are
gonna have to get through me. You can come.
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| Zeus: |
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(Aside)
So does this mean if I take the chance of being with her
and go with her, then I’m putting her life at stake
as well?
(to Rose) So your family would kill their own. |
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| Rose: |
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Red
lions have been known to kill their own if they show feelings
for a different kind of cat. |
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| Zeus: |
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Well…I
don’t want your life at stake. |
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| Rose: |
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Yeah
but now I need you to come. I don’t know my way back,
and the sun is already setting, which means the guard
will be sent out to search for me. And if they pick up
my scent and you have a little of it then you’re
dead anyway. Then I will probably die too. |
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| Zeus: |
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Okay…are
you sure? Maybe if you leave now your life could be spared. |
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| Rose: |
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No…they
could find you and if they do you won’t survive.
It’s now or never. I don’t want the guard to
find us on our way back. |
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| Zeus: |
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Okay…let’s
go, but if anything does happen on the way back I want
you to know, we will be together forever with or without
life. |
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| Rose: |
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I
love you too…let’s go. |
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