(Suddenly brave) Wait. Let them fight. No... Let them talk. (To Nyi Roro) You are a Queen now. Why are you still angry about a 500-year-old argument?
Another one?
(Standing between them) Stop! The living are watching!
(Removes his green shorts and throws them on the ground) Here. An offering.
Queen of what?
(Laughs) You want an apology from a ghost? Fine. (Pause) I was jealous. You were the sea. I was just a queen of stone. I am sorry.
(Smiles cruelly) Step-daughter. You are still haunting the living?
She was a princess once. Betrayed by her own family. Now she rules the void. She is beautiful. And she is hungry for loneliness. Scene 3: The Vision Setting: The edge of the water. Transition music – Javanese gamelan. The lights turn deep blue. DEWI KANDRONG enters from the audience, walking slowly. She is now wearing a shimmering green kain kebaya . Her face is pale, her eyes glowing.
(The scene freezes. Nyi Roro steps out of the memory and walks toward the front of the stage.)
I believe you are my daughter. But a King cannot fight the whispers of 100 advisors. The Queen, Dewi Mutiara, has demanded your blood or your banishment.
(Looks down at his green swim trunks) Oops.
Lower your gaze.
Then it is a mad sea. Go. But remember, if you step off this cliff, you are no longer human. You become... something else.