The Price of Light

[Verse 1 – Donna:]
The guns are still, but the silence rots
Smoke in the lungs from the lives we’ve lost
Five black ships in a frozen sky
You call for peace… but you never lie
You could have ended us at the wall
Left us buried in Twosun’s fall
So I stand where the dead grass bends
To face your truth… or where it ends

[Verse 2 – Isolde:]
You came, just like I knew you would
Still clinging tight to what you call good
But good is fragile… it breaks, it bends
I’ve watched it die in a thousand ends
Do you remember why light withdrew?
What your kind reached out to do?
A serpent’s whisper… a willing hand
You begged for power you couldn’t command

[Pre-Chorus – Isolde:]
It wasn’t force that broke your kind
Just the quiet turning of the mind

[Chorus – Isolde:]
Are you prepared to pay the price?
To watch them fall for your device?
Every life your stand will claim
Will choke to ash in your own name
Are you prepared to hear them plead?
To watch your children learn to bleed?
You call it truth… you call it right—
Tell me, Donna… is it worth the light?

[Verse 3 – Donna:]
You dress it up in ancient blame
But we’re not bound to that same chain
We choose to stand, we choose to fight
Not bow our heads to endless night
You see us weak—I’ve seen us rise
Through broken bones and desperate cries
We’re more than fear, more than flame
We are not all the same

[Bridge – Donna:]
Where is Matthew?
[Verse 4 – Isolde: (colder, closer)]
Closer than you’d ever dare believe
Not lost… not stolen… he chose to leave
He saw the cracks beneath your cause
The quiet truth beneath your laws
No spell was cast. No blade was drawn.
Just the moment… and he was gone

[leaning in]
You want his voice? You already know—
He won’t come back. He won’t say no.
[Pre-Chorus – Isolde: (whispered threat)]
It starts with one… it always does
A single doubt… a single “because”

[Chorus – Isolde:]
Are you prepared to pay the price?
To sanctify your sacrifice?
Every grave your faith defends
Will mark the place your mercy ends
Are you prepared to stand alone?
To build your crown from blood and bone?
You call it love… you call it right—
But I am patient. I am night.

[Break – Donna: (quiet, shaken)]
If I must carry all their names…
I’ll bear the weight… I’ll take the blame…
[Final Chorus – Donna vs Isolde: (tight, oppressive overlap)]
[Donna:]
I am prepared to pay the price
To hold the line… to make it right
[Isolde, low underneath:]
Then count them slowly… one by one…
[Donna:]
If we must fall, we fall as free
[Isolde:]
I’ve already turned your closest ones
[Donna: pushing back]
We are not yours—we won’t break!
[Isolde: cutting in]
You don’t see how much I’ve taken
[Donna: final cry]
I will burn before your night!
[Outro – Isolde: (soft, almost kind… which makes it worse)]
You already are…
Donna.
You just don’t feel it yet.

Dark cinematic duet, female lead, haunting choir, slow burn tension, cold villain voice, tragic resolve, epic fantasy