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2022
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Yin. Success is a measure of decisions we make. I don’t regret going with you, Yumi. We have to believe.

Yang. Do not succumb to panic. Now lay to!

Yang tries to break the cage door, Yin and Yumi help him, but the door does not respond. Toy comes in.

Yin. Traitor.

Yang. Blatant liar!

Yumi. Toy, how could you?

Pause.

Toy. Have you finished?

Yin. We have nothing to say to you.

Toy forces the lock; the cage door opens.

Toy. I was wrong. Give me a chance to make it right.

Yumi and the mice don’t move.

Toy. Come along! Hurry up. I will take you out of here.

Pause.

Toy. What’s wrong? We need to make haste!

Yumi. We don’t believe you.

Toy. Time is lacking for thinking. Lord will soon notice that I left. This is our last chance.

Yang. Come along! We won’t be any worse off.

Yang leaves the cage first, he is followed by Yin, and the last one to go out is Yumi.

Toy. Follow me. I will get you out of here and help you save your mom.

They all head for the door, and suddenly Melisa comes out of the darkness, claws the mice and blocks the way.

Melisa. Is my dinner going for a walk? Don’t you move, or I will choke the life out of you. (She protracts her claws, the mice squeak with pain.)

Toy. Mom, let us through.

Melisa. Do you really think that I will let you sign your own death warrant?

Toy. Yes.

Melisa. Lord will kill you, Toy.

Toy. Lord lied to me and he broke his promise to spare Yumi’s life.

Melisa. Lord is your boss. His orders are beyond questions.

Toy. My father was a real boss! Whereas Lord is just a travesty of his elder brother.

Melisa. I have no choice, Toy. Lord is stronger than we are.

Toy. There is always a choice. Let us go.

Melisa. Toy, I forbid you to do it.

Toy. Yumi’s mother is in grave danger. I am the only one who can help them let her free.

Melisa. Dogs are our enemies.

Toy. Enemies? And who are we? After my father’s death we just turned into a gang of malevolent thieves, and everyone is for himself. We are our own enemies!

Melisa. I have always dreamt of you following a different route. That you would stop both being a thief and living on the street.

Toy. So give a chance to change our life, mom. Let me go.

Pause.

Melisa. You are just like your father now. Go and never come back.

Toy. Thank you, mom. Yumi, let’s go!

Toy and Yumi head for the door.

Yumi. What about our friends, Yin and Yang?

Melisa. Nobody has canceled my dinner yet. The mice will stay here.

Yin. Yumi, help us.

Yang. Please, Yumi, help us out!

Toy. Yumi, don’t argue. We have to go rescue your mom.

Yumi. That will never do.

Toy. What’s your point?

Yumi. Yin and Yang got into the trap because they wanted to help save my mom Greta.

Toy. It was their choice.
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