RUNKA You did it, Cinderella. You fou...

RUNKA
You did it, Cinderella. You found your voice. You reminded the whole galaxy what it feels like to hope.

(Cinderella gazes at her remaining shoe.)

CINDERELLA
I did. Thank you, Runka. For a night I’ll never forget.

(She walks ahead, slowly.)

RUNKA
Where are you going?

CINDERELLA
To bed. The Zurkas will be back any minute. There’s chores to do in the morning.
(Runka doesn’t follow. They stand where they are, confused by Cinderella’s reaction to all this. Cinderella responds to the question unasked)
What’s changed, Runka?
(A beat.)
Tonight was a dream come true. But it was still just a dream.

(She nearly exits but stops short when she hears the sound of a rocket landing.

Commotion offstage. Lady Zurka, Zig, and Zag enter. Cinderella and Runka look on.)

LADY ZURKA
That competition was rigged! Totally rigged! “Ella C”—what a hack!

ZAG
But her song was a banger, though.

ZIG
Yeah, sorry, Mommy—that song slapped.
(Noticing Cinderella. Markedly nicer than usual after witnessing Ella C’s rap)
Oh, hi Cinderella. Did you see us on the livestream?

LADY ZURKA
(Still in her own zone of anger)
And that Prince! That pompous, ineffectual, lame-duck, who-does-he-think-he-is—
(The Prince suddenly enters, holding the shiny red sneaker, and following the Zurkas in tow. He definitely heard all that.)

LADY ZURKA (CONT’D)
Prince!

(Awkward pause.)

ZAG
Uh. I think what Mother meant to say was—

PRINCE
(To Zag)
No, it’s okay. She’s right. I’m a horrible prince.
(A beat.)
To be honest, tonight was the first time in my life I ever thought I might’ve actually done something right.
(Pause.)
She said she was from your planet. I’m coming to you because I was hoping...

ZIG
Oh—no—we have, like, no idea—

LADY ZURKA
(Butting in)
—hhhhow to tell you this, but after my daughters’ rapped together tonight, one of them returned to the stage—as the mysterious Ella C!

PRINCE
I...don’t think that’s it.

LADY ZURKA
Oh, but it must be! That must be what happened! Show him, girls—show him your dank rhymes!

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