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[SCENE 15 - PERAZA'S drawing room. From here, the night looks black and dim. Over a candle that casts sinister shadows, on a long wooden table, PERAZA and ZORA huddle and examine various scrolls and papers. They have been organising the nuptials between she and MIGUEL since the afternoon.] ZORA: I believe my family is willing to go up to 10,000 doubloons for the dowry. PERAZA: Excellent. That's settled then. ZORA: Now... (picks up a paper) I understand that dear Miguel will be inheriting your castles? PERAZA: Si. ZORA: Your soldiers? PERAZA: Si. ZORA: Your lands? PERAZA: All that-- and my rakish good looks. [He chuckles. ZORA joins h

Twang twang twanggggg. Tulio groaned, loudly and theatrically. Miguel shot him a glare and pouted and strummed the guitar again, only the guitar hissed a complaint and slithered off into the bushes. Miguel stared after it and pouted some more. "Snakes," Tulio said flatly. "Really? Snakes?" "I can make a guitar from anything!" Miguel cried. The branches he'd pieced the guitar together from collapsed sadly to the ground, and he kicked them into the fire sulkily. He grinned. "Remember that time in Barcelona, with the girdle—" "I remember Barcelona very well," Tulio hissed. "Ha, see," Miguel said, waving his hand in a triumphant sort of