confidence ~

[allegroassai]

You think it's so difficult - because you try too hard.

Be light on your feet, soft like the flowers in my father's beautiful gardens... yes. Don't worry about anything, don't feel obliged.

The only way, really, to own anything at all.

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[moderatoassai]

You are not an easy person to grasp, my beloved. In that, you are too much like the dancing flame.

[allegroassai]

Many have been burned, yes. But only ever so briefly.

[moderatoassai]

The fire is benevolent even as it hurts. One learns from its touch, always.

[allegroassai]

You learn to be quick. To pay attention.

[moderatoassai]

Let me not be blasphemous and say I was blind before, Gamzatti - but my eyes have been opened. Now.

[allegroassai]

That is what your dance does, around me. I couldn't possibly deny it, even if I thereby challenge the Gods themselves.

[moderatoassai]

Shush, lest not they hear.

[But she is laughing.]

[allegroassai]

So, let them hear! If they don't like what I say, they can eavesdrop on someone else.

[moderatoassai]

May they eavesdrop on my mundane, hear her plans of banishing me from Golconda... Separating me from you.

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[allegroassai]

[allegroassai]

You sound perfectly besotted with me. [Pause.] Are you?

[moderatoassai]

You have changed my world.

[allegroassai]

Of course I have. [Smile.] Then in your new place, remember Gamzatti who let you soar.

[moderatoassai]

There shan't be a moment when I forget. When I am not eagerly awaiting my return.

[allegroassai]

Will you dance? In this other world?

[moderatoassai]

If I am allowed. And perhaps, even if I am not.