Elphaba See Wizard

The ground sloped toward the still, receded margin of the lake. First at their feet, then at their waists and higher, the beached dock rose, like a bridge to nowhere, ending In air.

Beneath the dock in the dry shadows there were eyes.

'Oh, sweet Lurline,' whispered Nanny.

Elphaba was sitting under the dock with the looking glass that Turtle Heart had made. She held it in two hands, and stared at it with one eye closed. She peered, she squinted; her open eye was distant and hollow.

Reflection from the starlight off the water, thought Frex, hoped Frex, but he knew the bright vacant eye was not lit by starlight.

'Horrors,' murmured Elphaba.

Turtle Heart tumbled to his knees. 'She sees him coming,' he said thickly, 'she sees him to come; he is to come from the air; is arriving.

A balloon from the sky, the color of a bubble of blood: a huge crimson globe, a ruby globe: he falls from the sky. The Regent is fallen. The House of Ozma is fallen. The Clock was right. A minute to judgment.'

He fell over, almost into Elphaba's small lap. She didn't seem to notice him. Behind her was a low growl. There was a beast, a felltop tiger, or some strange hybrid of tiger and dragon, with glowing orangey eyes.

Elphaba was sitting in its folded forearms as if on a throne.

'Horrors,' she said again, looking without binocular vision, staring at the glass in which her parents and Nanny could make out nothing but darkness. 'Horrors.'

- Wicked, Book 1