Queen: Yes, all is quiet.

[The Queen returns.

Oozizi: It was a passing madness seized the Princes.

Queen: Oozizi, when I hear the sound of all their feet it is dreadful, and I must fly. And when I see the wonderful fields in the sunlight sloping away to lands I have never known, then I long to fly away and away for ever, passing from field to field and land to land.

Oozizi: Lady, no, no!

Queen: Oozizi.

Oozizi: Yes, great lady.

Queen: There is a mountain there that towers above the earth. It goes up into a calm of which our world knows nothing. Heaven, like a cloak, is draped about its shoulders. Why have none told me of this mountain, Oozizi?

Oozizi (awed): Aether Mountain.

Queen: Why has none told me?