Our king springs from his momentary shock ,and begins the ascent. Running and simultaneously apologizing to his mystery queen, our King cries out tearfully, "I was trying to build, I was coming up I was making my way and I was almost there, I looked ahead and I couldn't see, and I looked behind and I couldn't see, hold on baby, please hold on, I'll be there soon."
Out of breath and excuses, our King stands, panting and weak. He pushes the ancient door open and reveals his Queen standing in the window staring out on the same ocean from whence he came. The first glow of sunrise frames her figure. After a moment to drink in the scene, our King breaks out into his plea: "Here I stand, and here I kneel, below my queen, lost in this dusty cloud... If you show your face I might show you how."
Begging that she turn around and show him the beautiful face he longs for, our King tries to explain his absence:
"I sent those shadows to the darker side. So that my queen would never have to hide."
Withstanding no more excuses and explanations for his actions our Queen spins around to face this character she had been watching from highest vantage. Seeing him in all his 6 parts and understanding the illusion that he is. She imparts her view to a captive King. "I'm not your dreams, you want a face here it is. The one that you see is a mirror." All that was his passion, all that drove him to destroy, had nothing to do with his Queen. It came from his own imbalance. Her face is the reflection of this imbalance and imparts this feeling and not the loving pardon he expected.
Even after all her words he tries again to align himself out of his desparation: "You look like a part of myself, a part I put on the side, not rejection but reflection, I was afraid that you had died. Pushed over bones... It's these walls through which I could not see." Blaming his environment for this massive lapse in judgement, another plea wasted.
"Touch these cold stones, they are made of you." With these words the final darkness is erased with first light of sunrise and unfolding of our King's realization: "How could I have been so blind? I am lucky with this find, and that you are my kind. I was just afraid of being alone, I built my heart into a throne, but now, as one, we jump we rise!"
As two separate tones the two release their bodies and float as two lights towards the rising sun, chanting together before they become the music that carries them: "Together alone we jump we rise, together alone into the light."
Act VII Players
Olivia Galarza: narrator
William Lemon: vocals (Iron King)
Steven Kurtz: drums, percussion
Jay Hudak: bass guitar
Lou Rogai: piano (intro)
Edward Klinger: vibraphone, percussion
Louis Schwadron: piano
Eve Miller: cello
Katie Porter: bass clarinet
Natasha Khan: vocals (The Queen)
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