Tough Love: Episode 6

WILT

I don’t know. The basic stuff, favorite color, what music you like. What do you do when you’re not treasure hunting?

JASMINE

The Mistress keeps me busy.

WILT

So what? Are you saying that from the day you were born you never had a second of free time?

JASMINE

Alright, fine. When I was younger I used to dance. (Pause) I tried to anyway.

WILT

Tried too?

JASMINE

Well, I find the concept of it fascinating. When someone dances they use their body to tell a story, (Clenches her fist.) instead of what I’ve been trained to use my body to do. (Unclenches) When people waltz or foxtrot or tango they look like they’re communicating silently to each other.

WILT

Any particular reason that all of the dances you’ve mentioned require a partner?

(Jasmine looks away awkwardly. Then regains her composure, ignoring the previous statement.)

JASMINE

We are getting off topic. No matter what else happens the Mistress will insist upon being the one to retrieve the Heart.

WILT

Why do you guys need it so bad anyway?

JASMINE

That’s… not

important.

WILT

Alright then, why can’t both of us enter the temple? Does the legend specify that only one person gets to use the Heart?

JASMINE

I’m not sure. We know that it has been used at least once before and that it can be used again. If I had to guess I’d say that it can only be used once each year at the end of the Festival of Love.

WILT

So what if we used it to break Duke’s curse this year and then give it to you so you can use it the next year?

JASMINE

Why do you get to use it the first year?