PAPA GE
There were promises
Made in the darkness
Promises made in your sleep
Promises the gods demand you keep

You gave him love
Love he would soon betray
You gave him life
I am the price you'll pay
Sure as the grave
You must accept what is
Now your life is forever mine...
(He pulls a knife and seems about to kill
Ti Moune)

TI MOUNE
Don't! Please!

PAPA GE
Trade yours for his!

TI MOUNE
What?

PAPA GE
You loved him. You SAVED him. And he BETRAYED
You. Why should you die for him now?
Kill him, Ti Moune
Kill the love you feel
Prove that death is stronger than love and
You can have your own life again
Just as if you had never loved at all
PAPA GE
I am the
Road
Leading to
No return

ERZULIE
The courage of a dreamer

PAPA GE
Secret of
Life
Finally his
To learn

ERZULIE
You are
Part

PAPA GE
I am the car

Racing
Toward
Distant
Shores
ERZULIE
Part of
The human Heart

PAPA GE
Now his life
Is forever
Mine
Forever...

STROYTELLERS
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah...

TI MOUNE
I can't! Daniel, I love you

(It was 1998. A silent angry mob of people throw Ti Moune down to the beach.)

ERZULIE
And Ti Moune was cast out of the Hotel
Beauxhomme, and the gates slammed shut
Behind her

(The storytellers form a wall. Ti Moune approaches the people forming the wall, but as she speaks, they turn from her one by one.)

TI MOUNE
The gods sent me. They want me to be with him. Tell Daniel I'm here. Tell him. Tell him Ti Moune is waiting for him at the gate. Ti Moune is waiting for him!
ERZULIE
And for two weeks, Ti Moune did wait at the gate. Not eating. Not sleeping. Only waiting, only watching, as the grounds of the Hotel Beauxhomme were made even more lovely, in preparation for the wedding

(Andrea and Daniel appear, arm in arm, already married.)

PAPA GE
At last, Andrea and Daniel were married. And as superstition dictated, they came to the gates of the hotel to throw coins to the peasants, thus assuring that their own fortunes would multiply

(Daniel and Andrea pass the wall. Ti Moune reaches out, weakly.)

TI MOUNE
Daniel!!