hold out if you can hold out my sweet -> i am married just not to a man -> as you abandoned me. you did, donโt deny it, stop those lightning bolt looks at me, i wonโt have it -> you were devoted to glinda you were everyone knew -> [the night elphaba is โvanquishedโ] lady glinda had a bad night, a night of shakes and regret and pain; she guessed it was the early signs of gout from her rich diet. but she sat up half the night and lit a candle in a window, for reasons she couldnโt articulate. the moon passed overhead in its path from the vinkus, and she felt its accusatory spotlight, and moved back from the tall windows. -> โtell me what you need, tell me why i should help, and iโll see what I can do. in memory of elphaba. you knew her.โ her head tilted again, but up, this time, and it was to keep the sudden wetness from spilling into her carefully colored false eyelashes. โyou knew my elphie!โ + her hands reached out hungrily for the cape and rubbed its hem, as if it were leaves of thyme or hyssop. + glinda reached out and took the charred broomstick and cradled it. -> โoh, oh,โ she managed, โi donโt know that iโll see you againโฆand you remind me so of her.โ + โher power was only part of it,โ said glinda. โshe was brave, and so are you.โ -> [at the mauntery of saint glinda] i suppose i shouldnโt be surprised to find you here. after all, elphaba was here for a while, you know. itโs one of the reasons i like to support it. + glinda raised her chin. โno, liir. she lives. people sing of her. you wouldnโt guess it, being youโbut they do. thereโs a musical noise around her name; there are things people remember, and pass on.โ + you refuse to be consoled, donโt you? well, thatโs as much proof as i could ever need that youโre kin to her. she was the same way. the very same way. -> โdidnโt elphaba trust you once to try? itโs your turn.โ / i donโt mention her name,โ said glinda. not coldly, but in deference.โ -> her thoughts returned to elphaba thropp. It was more than fifteen years since they had parted ways. what an uncommon friendship they had hadโnot quite fulfilling. yet nothing had ever taken its place. years later, when that boy liir had shown up at glindaโs house in the emerald city, she had known him at once for elphabaโs son, though he seemed in some doubt on that matter. (children.) he had had elphabaโs broom, after all, and her cape. more to the point, he had had her look: that look both haunted and thereby abstract, but at the same time focused. a look like a spark on a dry winterโs day, that staticky crackle and flash that leaps across the air from finger to the iron housing of the servantโs bell. -> she didnโt believe she dreamed of elphaba; she didnโt have the kind of aggravated imagination that loitered in dreams. maybe she dreamed of a door opening, and elphaba coming back from the afterlife. to settle glindaโs consternation; to save her. or maybe this wasnโt a dream, just a foundational longing.-> for a moment, or ten, she was back in shiz, darting up some alley of flowering quinces, racing elphaba to the fountain at the back of the quad. elphaba was glowing with the effortโglowing emerald!โand glinda, in her dream, was almost absent to herself, caught up in admiring her friend. it happened so seldom, vacating the prison of oneโs limited apprehensions. even dreams seemed ego-heavy, she thought as she was waking. but oh, to see elphaba, even in dreams, is both reward and punishment, for it reminds me of my loss. -> โhere i go.โ please, lurlina, please. or the unnamed god. anyone who might be paying attention. elphaba. -> โbesides, i was hardly a stranger. i had known your grandmother. we were like this.โ she twinned her second and third fingers together as if they might strangle each other. -> her glasses had broken a year ago. she didnโt need them anymore, not really. she knew who was turning the door handle of her cell. she called her name sleepily, and added, โyou wicked thing. youโve taken your own sweet time, of course.โ
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