fourth trial

[stagemanagers]

[For a fourth time, the doors of the trial room unlock with a loud, echoing click and creak of the doors opening.

The time has come for your fourth trial.

The courtroom looks as it always does, with Hook and Javert's podiums are have been decorated just as the other dead performers are. The added lights cast even more shadows across the room and the chandelier above glitters and hangs ominously overhead. The Balladeer is nowhere to be seen again, presumably waiting behind the curtain to be needed. Once everyone is in position, his voice rings out across the courtroom.]

You guys know what to do. Let's get this over with.

Comments

[dechagny]

[No. This is not the end - it shall not end here. For all their sakes...for Astarte's sake...it cannot end here!]

Even now, our wits at their limit
You come to taunt us so?
Confess to your condemnation of Javert
And Astarte to death's woe

[cainthedark]

There's nothing to confess, are you a priest?
I won't admit to anything you accuse me of
Unless you fulfill what truth demands
and learn the truth about what killing me will do!

[dechagny]

The truth is plain to see
Your death brings Astarte with you
And we remain in this house of death
What else could there ever be?

[cainthedark]

My plans go beyond this ridiculous place
Besides, as it stands
Astarte is no longer useful to them

[dechagny]

So the motive's promise is what you seek
To change the past and thus some fate
And to do so you spit in the face of God
To make our hopes of freedom bleak

[cainthedark]

Changing the past is foolish
Even with my world's ways
the gods have been long dead
what matters is the future
and to undo their mistakes!

[dechagny]

God undoes his own mistakes when he sees fit
As recorded in the book of Genesis
Through ending our world by flood and death
Is that what you wish?
Apocalypse?

[cainthedark]

I wrote the book you read
So why shouldn't it happen?
That's why it was written
Human, Undead, Astarte
All means to an end!
The end!
My end!

[Dramatic swish of her (?) kimono.]

To the destruction of humanity!
To the destruction of the Earth!

[dechagny]

Not a single "actor" here will allow it!
Not even Astarte!!

[cainthedark]

Astarte will die because of you!
If you choose this path,
All you'll have is pain!