Perfect Stranger

[ANDRUSTE]
Please, Your Majesty
He seems barely alive
So little chance of survival
Surely it would be kind of
If he had been taken in [?]
And should king Menelaus find out

[HELEN]
Only gods to decide

[ANDRUSTE]
That you’re here without

[HELEN]
If he lives or die

[ANDRUSTE]
Well you know we will be -

[HELEN]
We'll do what we can

[ANDRUSTE, spoken]
Please Your Majesty

[HELEN]
After all, he's just a man

[ANDRUSTE, spoken]
But I'll be in trouble

[HELEN]
I’m trying to listen
I can feel a heart beating
It's a miracle that he survived
So long in the storm

[ANDRUSTE, spoken]
But what can we do?

[HELEN]
Go fetch the fisherman
We need his help

[ANDRUSTE, spoken]
Yes, ma’am

[HELEN]
We must keep him warm
Somehow I'm sure
I've seen him before
I’ve no idea how this could be
Some perfect stranger
Why does he seems so familiar to me?

[ANDRUSTE]
Just like I told you, he is

[ANDRUSTE and HELEN]
Some perfect stranger

[HELEN]
Maybe my imagination is fooling me
Foolish me

[FISHERMAN]
Your Majesty
Please forgive me
I'm not convinced this is right
Last evening I sighted a galley
Searching through the night
And I swear that her colors were Trojan
And now we find
From out of nowhere
This poor wretched thing from the sea

[HELEN]
Oh

[HELEN and FISHERMAN]
He's some perfect stranger

[ANDRUSTE, spoken]
He looks so young

[FISHERMAN, spoken]
Yes but any Trojan could be an enemy

[HELEN]
I just don’t know what possessed me
To come here to this place

[ANDRUSTE]
Oh, but surely not him

[ALL]
He's some perfect stranger

[ANDRUSTE and HELEN]
It's been so long since we’ve been here
So why today

[HELEN, spoken]
Why today?

[PARIS, spoken]
Aphrodite
It's true

[PARIS]
Here you are
I finally meet you
Face to face

I must be at heaven's door
And you are worth dying for
But this death is strange
Somehow I breathe
And still feel pain
But I gave you the sun
And now I claim my reward

Will you stay by me
Aphrodite
Sweet Aphrodite
I always knew
You'd come for me
I always knew

[HELEN]
You jump to conclusion, my friend
You are no more dead than I
Fate shows you favour
We were merely passing by
But why when you fought so hard to live
Should you wish to die

[FISHERMAN]
There aren’t many others who survive
Such a battle
With the wild Aegean tides

[ANDRUSTE and HELEN]
It’s lucky we were near
Lucky we were here

[HELEN]
Strange that I was -

[HELEN and PARIS]
Here you are
I finally meet you
Face to face
Out of the past
And into this lonely place

[HELEN, spoken]
He has no idea who I am

[ANDRUSTE, spoken]
I think he raves, Mistress

[FISHERMAN, spoken]
I'm sure he isn't from Greece

[ANDRUSTE, spoken]
He called you Goddess, didn’t he

[FISHERMAN, spoken]
And you shouldn't be here

[HELEN]
He called out a name meant for me

[ANDRUSTE]
I don't think that he'll die

[FISHERMAN]
I still think he's a spy

[HELEN]
For me

[ANDRUSTE]
I don’t really know why

[HELEN]
Yet I just answered

[ANDRUSTE and FISHERMAN]
He seems so innocent
He is not innocent
He could mean danger

[ANDRUSTE, HELEN and FISHERMAN]
Some perfect stranger
This stranger
Think of the danger

[HELEN]
He sees me as someone that I cannot possibly be
Yet, I feel that I know him and he's (and he's a stranger)
Some perfect stranger
I'll give
Care for him
Until he’s well