Scene Two: Stupid Men!
[Meanwhile in the forest, Rin and Auron meet up once again. When they ask one another what they are doing in the woods, both confess ulterior motives. A/N: Once again, don't forget to imagine Rin's accent!]
Auron: High in a tower—
Like yours was, but higher—
A beauty asleep.
All 'round the tower,
A thicket of briar
A hundred feet deep.
Agony!
No frustration more keen,
When the one thing you want
Is a thing that you've not even seen.
Rin: I've found a casket
Entirely of glass—
No, it's unbreakable.
Inside--don't ask it—
A maiden, alas,
Just as unwakeable—
Both: What unmistakable agony!
Is the way always barred?
Rin: She has skin white as snow—
Auron: Did you learn her name?
Rin: No, there's a dwarf standing guard.
Both: Agony!
Such that strong men must weep!
Always in thrall most
To anything almost,
Or something asleep.
Auron: If it were not for the thicket—
Rin: A thicket's no trick. Is it thick?
Auron: It's the thickest.
Rin: The quickest is pick it apart with a stick—
Auron: Yes, but even one prick-- It's my thing about blood.
Rin: Well, it's sick!
Auron: It's no sicker than your thing with dwarves.
Rin: Dwarves.
Auron: Dwarves...
Rin: Dwarves are very upsetting.
Both: Not forgetting the tasks unachievable,
Mountains unscalable—
If it's conceivable
But unavailable,
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah—
Agony!
Auron: Misery!
Rin: Woe!
Both: Not to know what you miss.
Auron: While they lie there for years—
Rin: And you cry on their biers—
Both: What unbearable bliss!
Agony, that can cut like a knife!
Ah well, back to my wife...