← The pale boy over there at the back, who's standing dreaming on his own with his back against the wall is the Messenger. 🔊✎
← Nothing, nurse. Just hold your hand there like that against my cheek. 🔊✎
← cries suddenly, pressed against him. ✎
← So why are you making this gesture then? For the others, the people who believe in it? To set them against me? 🔊✎
← And as soon as he was with the Argives, the assassination attempts started against your father, against an old man who hadn't decided to die and hand over his kingdom. One attempt after another, and when we caught one of the hitmen they always ended up saying they'd been paid by him. Though not just by him, I might add. 🔊✎
← Antigone enters, pushed by the guards who brace themselves against the door. Behind it, we sense the howling mob. ✎