OOZIZI (_reflecting_): Can it be?
QUEEN: What would you ask, Oozizi?
Oozizi: Can it be that it is with you, great lady, as it was with the
Queen, your mother, when Destiny sent her hence to Aether Mountain?
QUEEN: Aether Mountain calls.
OOZIZI: Lady, for a moment hear me. Come with me but a little while.
[_She leads the_ QUEEN _slowly by the arm back to the throne._
Lady, be seated here once more and take up the orb and sceptre in your
small hands as of old.
[_The_ QUEEN _patiently does as she is told._
Now, if Destiny calls you, let him call to you as to a Queen. Now, if it
be for no whim of those that pass, that you would go so far from here to
that great mountain, say, seated upon your throne in the golden palace
with sceptre and orb in hand, say would you go forth, lady?
QUEEN (_almost dreaming_): Aether Mountain calls.
[OOZIZI _bursts into tears. She helps the_ QUEEN _by the arm from her
throne and leads her part of the way to the door. There she stops. The_
QUEEN _goes on to the door alone._
OOZIZI: Farewell, lady.
[_The_ QUEEN _gazes out rapturously towards Aether Mountain. Then she
walks back and embraces Oozizi._
QUEEN: Farewell, Oozizi.
OOZIZI: Farewell, great lady.
[_The_ QUEEN _turns, then suddenly she runs swiftly and nimbly through
the door and disappears.
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