_White Fairy_ (_coming forward and interrupting_) Stop! I command thee, stop!
(_Erebus and Noctis shiver, moan and fall prone on the ground, remaining there until told to fly by Black Witch._)
_Fairy_ (_From position a trifle to the left and back of kettle, gazing steadily at Witch, ignoring imps._) This night thou art delivered unto me.
_Black Witch_ (_moving toward Fairy_) Not so, not so, loathed Fairy. Though ages old I still am young and thou shalt not prevail.
_Black Witch_ (_Interrupting in derision_) Not yet, dear Fairy! (_continues with air of triumph_) See yonder glow in my black pot? With my rod I brought it and it will burn and brighten until thee and thine consumed and parched be, and the whole world blighted. This rod, my power, though it weakened be, is potent still and thou canst do naught against me----
_Fairy_ (_Interrupting with cool hauteur_) That light is mine. I caused it there. Forever it will glow--a fairy gleam to light and bless the world. Thy power is gone, thy rod is dead.
(_Black Witch begins to laugh scornfully, moves over and gazes into pot, is startled and laugh is choked down._)
_Black Witch_ (_murmuring hopelessly_) ’Tis true. ’Tis true.
(_Black Witch grows afraid, moves away from kettle towards left across front of stage, muttering. Fairy maintains her original position but turns around slowly following movements of Black Witch with her eye. Fairy makes passes with wand toward Black Witch. Black Witch trembles and becomes furiously enraged._)
_Black Witch_ (_hysterically_) Begone, foul fairy, ere I smite thee dead!
_Fairy_ (_Calmly_) Do thy worst. Thy worst is less than none.
(_Black Witch grows desperate, approaches White Fairy and raises rod to strike her. At this moment B. W. should be to left of Fairy._)
_Black Witch_ With mine omnipotent rod I kill thee!
(_Fairy smiles, holds forth her wand. Arms of Black Witch become rigid in mid-air._)
_Black Witch_ (_screaming_) Fly Erebus and Noctis, Imps of Blackness, for your lives make haste! Away! Away!
(_Exeunt Erebus and Noctis to back passing to the right and behind Witch and Fairy._)
_White Fairy_ (_still smiling_) Break rod, rod break!
_White Fairy_ (_slightly toward audience_) And thus shall broken be her power forevermore.
