And throughout this ordeal, the two young boys who had offered up the "Golden Robe" and "Golden Crown" stood by, watching as two living people were roasted.
With satisfied, enchanting smiles on their lips and bright gold light gleaming in their eyes, the shadows behind them interwove in the glow of the golden robe and crown. In the eerie light and shadow, it seemed as if there were an indistinct human figure standing behind them.
Then the actress playing Medea appeared, clutching something in her hand, gripping it with both hands like a dagger—it looked like some kind of wooden bayonet, or a slender spearhead, trembling as she approached the young boys in the center.
Because she was shaking so violently, her singing was already off-key amid the thick smell of charred flesh and corpse. But Medea continued step by step towards the two boys, and then, in their calm and even somewhat benevolent gaze, she lunged forward with all her strength and stabbed each of them in the heart.
