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Hagai: [to the Queen candidates] Walk on to a brand new life. The method of your rival was not of my choosing. I am Hagai, his majesty's royal eunuch. I have been assigned to over see your preparations.
Queen Esther: [to the frightened group] It's ok.
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Queen Esther: [surprised by Hagai] You have a very bad habit.
Hagai: The palace is no place for children.
Queen Esther: You think of me as a child? Well, you are wrong. I am much younger than that!
[lauging and dancing around]
Hagai: How do they call you?
Queen Esther: [stopping] Esther.
Hagai: Curious name. From where you come?
Queen Esther: [dancing around] I'm of the wind, whose sound is heard. Yet none know from whence it comes or where it goes.
Hagai: Well, we gather with in the hour. Try not to blow away before then.
[leaves Esther laughing and dancing]
Indraneel Bhattacharya
Extended Reading
One Night with the King quotes
