News in Mantua
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The morning sun warms the streets of Mantua. You are Romeo, currently banished from your home in Verona. Last night, you had a strange, joyful dream that you were dead, but Juliet's kiss revived you and made you an emperor. You feel an unaccustomed spirit lifting you above the ground.
Your servant, Balthasar, rides up hastily, his boots dusty from the road.
"News from Verona! How now, Balthasar?" you ask eagerly. "Dost thou not bring me letters from the Friar? How doth my lady? Is my father well? How fares my Juliet? That I ask again; for nothing can be ill if she be well."
Balthasar avoids your gaze, his hat in his hands.