Awaken

Sumer Dream

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1. French Renaissance Song-
   A Krylov (lute)
2. Day After Day- Badfinger

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I. Mountain Castle

The Empire ruled by death & taxes. Princess Lei greeted the Trantorian Royal Ambassador, bowing to acknowledge her second tier status.

"Please rise." said the Ambassador.

"Now tell me Lei, what troubles your pretty little head?"

A sympathetic mime expression like a tragic mask drew tightly over his face.

"Ambassador, it is the third arrow of reform." she said.

"The third arrow?"

He looked around as if confused.

"Oh dear- I think I've lost count!"

The Ambassador then smiled broadly & laughed, turning to his amused court. She felt nothing that she had not felt before- a thousand times over. She looked up at the distant stars that formed a celestial roof in the castle ruins- she regained her balance.

The Ambassador turned back to her and said-

"My fair Princess, I'm looking everywhere for that third arrow!"

Suddenly with no warning the Ambassador jolted backward with a sickening thud, clutching with horror an arrow buried deep within his chest. She knew the war between the stars had just begun.

The Count held the sleeping Princess in his arms. The Pearl of Dreams could reveal the Truth and the Future- whether good or bad. Her eyes darted about beneath beautiful closed lids- he held her gently as she began to wake. Perhaps the Truth and the Future were too much for mere mortals to bear.

II. Paris

6 PM- the Count rose from a chair and walked to the balcony. There below on the street- like a summer butterfly- the Princess flitted about the flowering pedestrians, making her way to the Count's door.

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