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Caprice: So...tell me more about what happened to you last night, Marvin, because I know there's more.
Bunter: Very well, if you insist. But you may find some of this a little hard to believe!
Caprice: You forget I'm a fairy! I believe in a great many things.
Bunter (smiling): That's right. A great lover of fairy tales. I do remember.
Bunter: Ok then. Here goes. You see, I was sent out in a row boat to find a certain type of, uh, fish for the Woeful Brethren. As you remember, the full moon was out, and there was a strange mysterious sensation in the air. I felt that anything could happen. And well, it did!
I thought the storm had let up, but it suddenly clouded over again, and I knew I was in for trouble. I tried to get back to shore, of course, but somehow I got turned around in the darkness. I was having a devil of a time!
Then the hail started in again. I was pummeled without mercy! That's when things got really bad. My boat hit a rocky reef of some sort and broke to pieces. And the next thing I knew, I was being tossed around in the waves, barely able to keep my head above water!
Caprice: Marvin! You were lost in the sea without a boat? What did you do!
Bunter: I didn't do anything, luv. I must have blacked out. I'm really not sure what happened next. Maybe I was delirious, or dreaming. I might have been entranced by the moon. Because it got very odd after that.
Bunter: I found myself in a blindingly bright world in full daylight! I was in my Woeful robes and was furious, ranting away like a mad man! Something about being alone and abandoned. No one caring!
Then suddenly you were there, Caprice! Soothing my spirits...just like you did today! But even as I held you tight, I felt you slipping away from me.
I was left standing alone again. This time dripping with sea water, cold and shivering, while the dark waves closed over me. I was lost. Until I heard your voice calling my name! I knew I had to find you.
I searched room after room. Then I recalled how you loved the outdoors, and I found you standing on an open deck. Caprice, we were on a houseboat in a tropical world, and you were the source of the sunlight!
Caprice: Marvin, that is very poetic! Your deliriums are quite romantic, aren't they?
Bunter: Only when you appear, luv.
Caprice: You make me blush!
Bunter: I'm only telling you what I feel.
Bunter: You had great faith in me, Caprice. Told me that I was in control of my life. That I could steer us wherever we wanted to go. "Where do you want to go, Marvin?" you asked.
"Anywhere," I answered, "anywhere with you." And we sailed away into peaceful blue waters!
Whatever paradise we found after that, we were happy.
We seemed to be flying and dancing all at the same time.
You taught me how to dance in the air...
Like magic!
It left me breathless.
Caprice: I taught you how to fly as fairies do? But Marvin, I can do that! I can teach you!
Bunter: I'd love to fly with you, Caprice. I've never been as free as in that dream.
Bunter: Things became more life-like after that. The dream world itself started fading, but I remained focused only on you.
Everything felt so real. I was desperate not to let you go. And yet, I felt myself waking up...back in the waters of Rinn Fada.
Bunter (smiling again): I laughed when I realized I was clinging to a rock and not you. But I was safe, Caprice, all because of you!
Caprice: I'm speechless, Marvin. That is some fairy tale you just told me! ...Are you sure you're not Irish?
Bunter: Persian, luv. I'm pure Persian.
