MOOMOOMON: Yes, let us hide.
MELIFLOR: So that if there be anything wrong in the palace it will not
find us.
[_Exeunt_ MOOMOOMON _and_ MELIFLOR.
HUZ: Let us hide.
[_Exeunt all but_ ZOON _and_ OOMUZ.
[ZOON _has sat always with bent head at table. He sits so, still._
ZOON (_bitterly_): They would follow the Queen.
OOMUZ: Mighty Highness----
ZOON (_still to himself_): They will come back boasting that they dared
follow the Queen.
OOMUZ: Mighty Highness.
ZOON: Yes, good Oomuz.
OOMUZ: In other times once princes followed a queen and came back
boasting. Master, the workers were angry. Be warned, Master, because you
and I went together once to the hoard beyond the marshes. Be warned.
They were angry, Master.
ZOON: I care not for the workers.
OOMUZ: Master, be warned. It was long ago and they say they were very
angry.
ZOON: I care not, Oomuz. I come not boasting back from the hills under
Aether Mountain. I shall not halt till I have told the Queen my love. I
shall wed with her who is less only than Fate, if less she be. I am not
as those, Oomuz. Who weds the Queen is more than the servant of Fate.
OOMUZ: Master----
[_He stretches out his hands towards_ ZOON _imploringly._
ZOON: Well, Oomuz?
OOMUZ: Master. There is a doom about the Queen.
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