Overview
- Female: 2
- Male: 1
Context
After Queen Ivy’s address to The Pack, she sees her daughter back at the Ice Castle. She questions why she wasn’t at the address, and wonders why her daughter is so keen on understanding the history of the Winter Wolves when they don’t exist anymore. The Queen believes that they should look towards the future instead of dwelling on the past.
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QUEEN IVY reenters from STAGE LEFT while PRINCESS WILLOW runs in from STAGE RIGHT. The two meet at CENTER STAGE, where PRINCESS WILLOW gives her mother a hug. The embrace is held while ONYX narrates at STAGE LEFT.
ONYX Ah, what a lovely speech, Queen Ivy! A life of emotion certainly does seem fulfilling, upon retrospect. However, it would seem your daughter has a different plan…
Instead of walking offstage, ONYX stays and listens to the two.
PRINCESS WILLOW (releases the embrace enthusiastically) Mother! You’re back! QUEEN IVY smiles briefly, then steps back with a concerned expression.
QUEEN IVY (quirking an eyebrow) Why weren’t you at my address to The Pack?
PRINCESS WILLOW (sheepishly) Oh dear, that was today?! I got so distracted reading books about the history of Onyx’s village. I’ve always wanted to see what the Village is like. (suddenly passionate) All the wolf generations used to live there, Mother. Arcadio first, then you, Onyx, and finally me. Don’t you ever want that back? This Ice Castle feels…isolated from them and just isn’t the same.
QUEEN IVY (slightly exasperated) I do not understand why you’d want to go back there. That village has memories of our pain before we changed our forms. We can now live here in harmony.
PRINCESS WILLOW (sighing) The Winter Wolves don’t even exist anymore. We’re human again. I want to stay human…and forget everything that ever happened to me as a wolf. I feel like my life will only truly be fulfilled if I go back to the village where I was born.
QUEEN IVY ponders this carefully before speaking.
QUEEN IVY (treading carefully) Not all of the wolves are gone. Onyx is still a wolf living in the Frost Forest with Rose. He didn’t want to forget his life as a wolf…it eventually came to bring him peace.
PRINCESS WILLOW (passionately) Onyx now lives as a monster; forever chasing the ghost of his beloved. Perhaps that kind of life did come to bring him peace, Mother, but it wouldn’t for me. It feels fake and shallow; like something’s missing. (voice starts to tremble) I fear us Winter Wolves will never fully be at peace…until we return to the village we all came from.
Narrator ONYX seems overcome with emotion at this, and dramatically exits STAGE LEFT. PRINCESS WILLOW gazes at her mother with a pleading expression. QUEEN IVY glares at her daughter and her hands tremble in anger.
QUEEN IVY (commanding) You shall never return to that village! (quietly, turning from WILLOW) It is for your own good…
PRINCESS WILLOW cries softly and runs offstage RIGHT. QUEEN IVY watches her daughter leave with a mixed expression. IVY then crosses her arms and shakes her head in disbelief. The Queen suddenly becomes nervous and starts to pace back and forth in the HALLWAY.
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