Tranquil Beauty, Cinnamon!
[TRANQUIL BEAUTY and CINNAMON approach the EMPRESS.]
All of you are dear to me, but I have called those who in adversity have shown the bravest hearts. [To the others.] And you, my sweet flowers, so untimely faded, may the Water of the Great Deliverance convey you easily beyond this world through the peace of sleep.
PEARL
We have given it all to the wounded.
ANOTHER LADY
Our flasks are empty.
PEARL
The flames terrify us——but we know how to die, noble Sovereign.
ANOTHER LADY