[The Balladeer goes quiet, and sets the guitar down in the grass next to him so he can shift position. It's...it still hurts. But after talking to some people, his initial wash of despair at learning his true purpose has started to fade. Whatever he was meant for, he is still here now.]
The script said that, after my last lines, I'm supposed to get driven away and not come back. But I've been...thinking about it. When that happened for me, when the Player came to save me...I was surrounded. I didn't have anywhere to run to.
[If he'd seen an opening, he would have run. The Balladeer doesn't quite know what might have happened afterwards; it seems, to him, that being cut from the rest of the show is tantamount to no longer existing. It isn't grounded enough in reality for the audience to assume that he just...went home, or anything like that. But still - he'd been afraid for his life. He would have run to his own end, rather than stand and let them mete it out.
Were they going to give him an escape? Or was it...something else?]
They all had their guns out...
[But could they have really just shot him onstage like that? Did they have that kind of special effects? He's not sure anymore.]
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[The Balladeer goes quiet, and sets the guitar down in the grass next to him so he can shift position. It's...it still hurts. But after talking to some people, his initial wash of despair at learning his true purpose has started to fade. Whatever he was meant for, he is still here now.]
The script said that, after my last lines, I'm supposed to get driven away and not come back. But I've been...thinking about it. When that happened for me, when the Player came to save me...I was surrounded. I didn't have anywhere to run to.
[If he'd seen an opening, he would have run. The Balladeer doesn't quite know what might have happened afterwards; it seems, to him, that being cut from the rest of the show is tantamount to no longer existing. It isn't grounded enough in reality for the audience to assume that he just...went home, or anything like that. But still - he'd been afraid for his life. He would have run to his own end, rather than stand and let them mete it out.
Were they going to give him an escape? Or was it...something else?]
They all had their guns out...
[But could they have really just shot him onstage like that? Did they have that kind of special effects? He's not sure anymore.]