PRIEST How, is the owner of this cloak a Tennin? so be it. In this downcast age I should keep it, a rare thing, and make it a treasure in the country, a thing respected. Then I should not return it.
TENNIN Pitiful, there is no flying without the cloak of feathers, no return through the ether. I pray you return me the mantle.
PRIEST Just from hearing these high words, I, Hakuryo have gathered more and yet more force. You think, because I was too stupid to recognise it, that I shall be unable to take and keep hid the feather-robe, that I shall give it back for merely being told to stand and withdraw?
TENNIN
A Tennin without her robe,
A bird without wings,
How shall she climb the air?
PRIEST And this world would be a sorry place for her to dwell in?
TENNIN I am caught, I struggle, how shall I?...
PRIEST No, Hakuryo is not one to give back the robe.
TENNIN Power does not attain....
PRIEST To get back the robe.