Not easily wrested from the sky-traversing spirit,
Not easily taken or given.
I ask you to leave it where you found it.

PRIEST
How, is the owner of this cloak a Tennin? so be it. In this downcast age
I should keep it, a rare thing, and make it a treasure in the country, a
thing respected. Then I should not return it.

TENNIN
Pitiful, there is no flying without the cloak of feathers, no return
through the ether. I pray you return me the mantle.

PRIEST
Just from hearing these high words, I, Hakuryo have gathered more and yet
more force. You think, because I was too stupid to recognise it, that I
shall be unable to take and keep hid the feather-robe, that I shall give
it back for merely being told to stand and withdraw?

TENNIN
A Tennin without her robe,
A bird without wings,
How shall she climb the air?

PRIEST
And this world would be a sorry place for her to dwell in?

TENNIN
I am caught, I struggle, how shall I?...