Son Of Death (Larry Stylinson AU)

Act 2

Act 2

Scene 1

Chorus:

A year has passed

Since our queen betrayed her faith

A child, she bore, at last

but a promise of Hades is a promise of skaith

The queen enters, her maid follows her, carrying the newborn child.

Queen Perrie:

Oh dear girl I am delighted

I am ecstatic, I feel capable of flight !

Wish for any prize, you who pulled me out of my plight !

With happiness and joy I am over-thrilled

I have no use for heaven when my life is so heaven-filled !

Maid:

Your happiness, my queen is my greatest prize

Although, a need I will not disguise,

My brother's health fails to rise

And a healer's salary is too big in size

My family cannot afford

His return to life

I'm afraid, us so poor

Will have to say goodbye

But if you were to hand some gold

He might be revived,

I gave you a son and so is my price.

Queen Perrie:

Oh young sweet,

Young golden tulip,

Surely as rare as the ring of Gyges

My dreams and wishes you have appeased

Given me a son, and asking only for a brother's health

You are a silver doll, amidst dark coal on youth's shelf

Go to the royal healers

Pick out who you like

Tell them the queen

Has given you full right

Gold is no chore to spend

On such a noble being, on such a loyal friend

Chorus:

Rejoice your highness, for a prophet approaches

A man under Zeus may bless away your reproaches

The prophet enters.

Queen Perrie:

Welcome kind sir,

Are you in any need ?

Prophet:

No your highness,

I am here under Zeus' creed

I am here to deliver a prophecy

Which He sent me in a dream

Alas, this news is of the ugly and bleak

But so Zeus wants and so it shall be.

The newborn starts crying.