SCENE 2

EMBER: Cerulean, is that you?

CERULEAN: Ember

EMBER: Lights dance before me in spirits’ form,
they have answered my prayers.

CERULEAN: I see light.

EMBER: Death, even death,

CERULEAN: Light of earth, here again

EMBER: Even death cannot keep us apart.

CERULEAN: This place feels so strange.
Humanity so bright and mine gone.

EMBER: Even death cannot keep us apart.
Cerulean, I feared I’d never see you again.

When they found your remains,
I couldn’t stand it, wouldn’t believe it,
I was petrified, dumbstruck.
How could this happen to us?
How could someone do this?
You never hurt anyone,
You were always kind and gentle, withdrawn.
I remember,

That was one of the first things that caught my eye,
Your shyness, you seemed so vulnerable.
I felt I must cherish you completely
to protect you from this world.
I would hold you so tightly in my arms,
Encasing your fragile soul.
But I failed,
I was unable to keep you from that monster,
Who managed to bring you to this untimely death.
Please tell me who it was,
That coward,
Before death parts us forever.

CERULEAN: Ember,
Death has already parted us.
I felt it when my soul unattached from yours.
With damp earth against my cheek,
I could feel my self and my humanity parting ways.

As blood pooled before my eyes,
A vast emptiness had seeped inside of me
And it consumed me until I was not myself
Any longer.
Light faded as the sun set around my broken body.

Then spirits took what was left of me into their care
To usher me into the world beyond this one.
Ember, death has parted us.

EMBER: No! I’m sure there’s still some part of my Cerulean
Left in you.

CERULEAN: You should not have come here to no purpose.
How could you be so careless, so naïve?
You’ve risked everything I’ve fought for, died for.

EMBER: But I did come for a purpose,
You must tell me who did this to you so I can avenge our parted love.

CERULEAN: Go home, Ember,
Where you are safe and can live out your life
In happiness and freedom.
Don’t risk yourself like this, not for me.

EMBER: You must tell me!
You say I’ve risked everything
But you were part of me,

CERULEAN: Not anymore.

EMBER: Were my everything, now lost.

CERULEAN: Now I am nothing!

BOTH: My heart is colder than this frigid winterland.

EMBER: I would rather die than leave here without knowing the truth,
Would rather die.

CERULEAN: Please don’t say that.

EMBER: Tell me.

CERULEAN: I will not.

EMBER: Tell me!

CERULEAN: Never.

EMBER: Tell me if you love me at all,
If you care that I’m suffering won’t you tell me?
Or must I die not knowing?
I can feel death taking me.

CERULEAN: Death has already taken him,

EMBER: Who?

CERULEAN: The man you seek is not a man anymore.

EMBER: You say your killer’s dead?

CERULEAN: Please don’t ask more, I beg you.

EMBER: Why are you making this so hard?
Why can’t you just tell me the truth?

CERULEAN: I can’t bear to see your face when
you find out what a coward I was.

EMBER: I deserve to know what happened.

CERULEAN: Oh but could I take it back I know I would.

EMBER: It can’t possibly be as bad as you think.
You must stop protecting this person’s name!
That coward deserves what he gets, deserves justice.

CERULEAN: For nothing is worth seeing the disappointment,
Confusion will soon turn to anger
Then worst of all, contempt.

EMBER: We must make that vile wretch who ruined our lives
Pay for his actions.

CERULEAN: Ember,
It was me, believe me.
I am my own killer, forgive me.
I’m sorry.
Ember, you must go home!

EMBER: It can’t be!
He wouldn’t do that to me, would he?
Not even a note to tell me what happened,
Didn’t he care? Or think about the affects of his actions?
It’s so dark now.
How will I find my way home?