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--- readable:saga:weaver.of.gold:iii [2025/09/03 12:04] – [3-3] anadmin
+++ readable:saga:weaver.of.gold:iii [2025/10/29 20:56] (current) – [3-5] anadmin
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 ====== III. Curtain of Swords and Weave ======
+----
 ==== 3-1 ====
-{{ :readable:saga:weaver.of.gold:aglaea3-1.png?200|}}
+{{ :readable:saga:weaver.of.gold:aglaea3-1.png?200|Image of a dressmaker's mannequin, holding a sword and with a butterfly on the neck.}}
 A solo lyre's sound flows along the streets.\\
-//"O, my lover,//\\
+<color #efe4B0>//"O, my lover,//\\
-//Why does your mood change faster than the clouds above?"//
+//Why does your mood change faster than the clouds above?"//</color>
 The audience's face is covered in sorrow.\\
-//"Ahh! How I wish she has clear eyes are that quick to//\\
+<color #efe4B0>//"Ahh! How I wish she has clear eyes are that quick to//\\
 //anger and laughter.//\\
-//And dimples that crease in smiles and frowns.//
+//And dimples that crease in smiles and frowns."//</color>
 For the maiden he longs for,\\
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 For she is Aglaea's Garmentmaker.\\
 Merely a demigod's serf.
+----
 ==== 3-2 ====
-{{ :readable:saga:weaver.of.gold:aglaea3-2.png?200|}}
+{{ :readable:saga:weaver.of.gold:aglaea3-2.png?200|Image of the back of the foot of the elegant woman. Many dressmaker mannequins surround her and there are golden threads connecting her and them together.}}
 The gilded dressmaster, the executive of romance.\\
 How resplendent would her mansion be above the\\
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 The one with golden thread in hand is revealed, standing\\
 betwixt figures of stone.
+<color #efe4B0>
 //"Lady Aglaea,//\\
-//I am Apollis's retainer, here for an outfit to take to my master."//
+//I am Apollis's retainer, here for an outfit to take to my master."//</color>
 He casts sideways glances as he bows,\\
 For the Garmentmaker he adores is flanking her mistress\\
 Silent as a leaf accompanying a flower.
+----
 ==== 3-3 ====
 Slender hands sculpted of ivory pull up the dress's train,\\
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 The maiden will be revived.
-//"The creation of love and beauty indeed..."//\\
+<color #efe4B0>//"The creation of love and beauty indeed..."//</color>\\
 As the visitor thinks thus, his thoughts prickle the golden threads in the room.
-//"If you wish to embrace such fantasies..."[(Spoken by Aglaea.)]//\\
+<color #993333>//"If you wish to embrace such fantasies..."//</color>\\
 She declares thus on the other end of the golden thread—
-//"You must beware of the scissors that can pierce through the chest."[(Spoken by Aglaea.)]//
+<color #993333>//"You must beware of the scissors that can pierce through the chest."//</color>
+----
 ==== 3-4 ====
+In the ancient theater,\\
+There are thousands of plays, millions of shows,\\
+Where even the god of romance was once an actor.
+The weaver below the stage savors the show for inspiration—
+The ostracized poet, finally returned home...\\
+The adoring lovers, separated by misfortune...\\
+The hero betrayed, fires his deadly arrow into the traitor's heart...
+The thread known as romance is knit by all beings.\\
+By all love and hatred, beauty and sin, memories and prophecies.\\
+<color #993333>All that occurs... are clothing indeed.</color>
+Look! The despondent servant buried his love.\\
+The dressmaster plucks it up, and into the\\
+Garmentmaker's dress she weaves.
+----
 ==== 3-5 ====
+The elegant Garmentmakers once has beautiful faces,\\
+Some as knights with swords,\\
+Some as impassive priests.
+And put on pantomime after pantomime in the golden thread's light.
+Till the stage shoot in the storm,\\
+And the black tide tainted the dancers' skirts.
+She wiped clean their visages,\\
+And instilled armaments instead of silk.
+{{ :readable:saga:weaver.of.gold:aglaea3-5.png?200|Image of the elegant woman flying through the sky, attacking with her golden threads. A moon illuminates her darkened profile.}}
+<color #993333>//"Use the needle and thread as your sword."//</color>\\
+She requests the servants who cannot answer.
+The "Garmentmakers" are elegant still.\\
+They turn bloody and stained slaughter into the lithe rondos,\\
+For only then can they still dress in new gowns.\\
+Only then can romance survive into the morrow.