ELPHABA

Just pick one, Galinda. It'll hardly make a difference if you show up to the OzDust in rose or magenta or fuchsia; you are still the most beautiful thing in all of Shiz. You with your spiralling gold ringlets knotted into an elegant up-do, and skilled make-up that almost sets your face glowing; you have everything and yet you cannot make a simple decision.

Fact is, there is no one dress that will render you more perfect than if you were to choose another. You could wear one of my old rags and still dazzle. Oh Glin, I wish you would do just that, and start a fashion trend with one of my colourless mottled dresses. Then I wouldn't be the only one without riches and finery. Isn't that ironic - my status is better than yours, and yet I am lumped in with the poorest at the university.

But status matters little when it comes to social standing. There is not one Ozian here who would believe you are a mere country girl from the outskirts of Gillikin. Most would take you for a queen. And you are, Glin - you're their queen. The Queen of Shiz. The most popular girl in the school, and the most beautiful. You are cleverer than you think, for you have managed to sway them into believing you are rich. Perhaps you ought to be a politician?

So choose. Choose a damn dress and put it on and dazzle the world. Choose decisiveness, and then intelligence and leadership. You have all of these things in you, hiding as you masquerade as little more than a pretty face. You never did quite manage to fool me, Galinda - you've never really been the same as all the others. They will spend their lives being shallow, but not you. You're like a caterpillar in its cocoon, waiting to break free and fly to places beyond what they will ever see.

I'll be waiting when you make that choice.

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GLINDA

You made your choice, Elphie. You chose to leave me.

Or maybe it's that I chose to abandon you? How do I separate one from the other? You're the one who was good at making logical sense out of these things, but I am not clever enough. Which one of us chose wrongly? Which one of us abandoned the other?

When I look back, I wonder what would have happened if only I'd made the other choice. I'm little more than a puppet, when I could have been in a partnership. I chose cowardice, and therefore surrendered my free will to the hands of the Wizard. Oh Elphie, if only I'd gone with you, I would be free, but I was too afraid.

I'm sorry.

I hoped, back then, that you would be happy. Are you? Because I'm not. You wished me happiness, but I'm afraid I cannot claim to have it. Turns out, living your life behind a mask is rather draining. Elphie, I know you wanted me to become a strong and good person. I know you believed that I would change. But I fear that I have not. I am as superficial as I was back at Shiz, back in the days when I was Galinda. I spread lies about you then, and I spread lies about you now. Each lie breaks my heart a tiny bit more, and I wonder how long it will be before my heart is destroyed completely.

And yet, every day, I continue to make this choice. Because I'm too weak to change myself for the better.