Scene 3
The captive Yazidi girls are beaten down. Most of them have been used and abused by dozens of men at this point. Many have visible bruises and scratches. Layla and Envy are not in the room.

Song: "Wedding Bells" (Track 17)

Selwah sings:
Whose bride am I today? It's my wedding day.
I hate each one of them, long for my funeral instead.

Namoon sings:
They pass me around like meat, so much blood on the sheet,
I'm living in hell. How I hate those wedding bells.

All Yazidi girls sing:
Wedding bells, how I hate the sound of wedding bells,
I've been married more than I can tell
I wish they all would go to hell!

Dahlia sings:
They let me call my mother, told her I'd married another,
She sobbed on the phone, screamed, "Leave her alone!"

Alisa sings (while holding onto her little sister Avine):
It's worse when they take my sister, I'd rather they use me,
She's innocent and naïve, a girl of just thirteen!

All Yazidi girls sing the chorus:
Wedding bells, how I hate the sound of wedding bells,
I've been married more than I can tell!
I wish they all would go to hell.

All Yazidi girls sing the chorus.
Wedding bells, how I hate the sound of wedding bells,
I've been married more than I can tell,
I wish they all would go to hell.
(Keen drags Envy into the room. She has been severely beaten but Keens mouth is bleeding. He throws her to the ground and he exits.)

Envy sings:
To think I was unhappy, now I miss my life,
What seemed agonizing, now keeps me alive.
I would die for Layla and she would die for me.
How quickly life has changed, for a girl of just nineteen...
Wedding bells, how I hate the sound of
Wedding bells, I've been married more than I can tell.
Has my stomach begun to swell?

End of Song

The girls surround Envy and try as best as they can to comfort her.

Namoon: Envy! Oh what have they done to you?

Envy: More of the same. They still get a kick out of abusing me in this uniform.

Selwah: Where's Layla?

Envy: They're getting her dressed up to meet some supposed dignitary. They say they're saving the best for last.

Avine: Oh Envy, I'm so sorry.

Namoon: I wish someone would bomb us. Death is better than living like this.
Daliah: Do people realize what's happening to us? I mean selling girls over and over for 50 dollars or less?!

Keen enters to torment the girls.

Song: "Sex Slavery's Real" (Track 18)

Keen sings (mocking):
No one wants to believe it. People hardly conceive it,
Sex slavery's real it's a huge business deal.
People close their eyes and ears, or worse they shed fake tears...
As innocent ones are raped or killed if they try to escape.
(Keen exits)

All Yazidi Girls: If I was your daughter would you look for me then?
If I was your daughter, married to 100 men.
If I was your daughter could you look the other way?
If I was your daughter and someone's sex slave?
No one wants to believe it! People hardly conceive it!
Sex slavery's real, it's a huge business deal!
People close their eyes and ears, or worse they shed fake tears
As innocent ones are raped or killed if they try to escape.
If your child goes missing your whole family freaks,
But a village of girls disappears and nobody speaks.
We could be your baby, your sister or your mom.
Does it matter at all to you, what really goes on?
If I was your daughter would you look for me then?
If I was your daughter "married" to 100 men
If I was your daughter could you look the other way?
If I was your daughter and someone's sex slave?

End of Song

Envy: (to the girls) I need to be alone. Give me a few minutes ok? (She walks downstage right) Hey, Malak's God... Can we talk? I know, you know I don't believe in you. But Malak is convinced. He says, nothing's impossible for you. I'm not sure you exist and if you do—that you're even paying attention... Malak said I should talk to you as if you're real and I should ask you to reveal yourself to me. Here we go... If you truly are the God of the impossible... Don't let those filthy men touch Layla. I don't care what happens to me—but my little sister, she's special. (beginning to cry) So, if you can do this one thing, I just might believe you—that, despite all the madness in this sick, twisted world, maybe you're a God who hears.... If you are, don't allow, even one man, to lay so much as a finger on Layla's beautiful body or break that sweet soul of hers. I'm counting on you. I don't care how you do it—just please protect Layla.

Envy turns just in time to see Layla enter in a beautiful, white, traditional Yazidi wedding dress. The Yazidi girls rush over to her to encourage and comfort Layla.

Selwah: Oh no! Poor Layla.

Dahlia: Are you next?

Alisa: Have they found a buyer for you?

Avine: If you pretend to like it they don't beat you as much.

Envy crosses to her sister and hugs her.

Layla: I'm not going through with it.

The girls are shocked and exclaim, "What? What do you mean? How can you refuse?" etc.

Namoon: Layla, what do you mean? What are you saying?

Layla: (Calm, otherworldly) I'm saying, I'm not going to marry this undignified dignitary, or anyone else they choose for me.

Envy: (suspicious) They gave you a choice?

Layla: (Eerily calm) Sort of... they said I had to go to this man willingly, with a smile on my face. I told them that could never happen. I'm in love with someone else and I'm not very good at pretending.

Envy: So what happens if you refuse?

Layla: Keen said, if I refuse they will kill me at dawn.

The girls start crying, wailing, sobbing. Envy is stoic for her sister.

Envy: Layla, I don't want you to die.

Reprise of "By Your Side"

Layla sings (to Envy):
I'm not afraid to die,
There's a better place on the other side,
I'm not afraid so please don't cry,
One day you'll join me by my side.

Envy sings (to Layla):
I can't watch you die;
Can I convince you otherwise?
I'll be terrified,
To see my sweet sister die.
Both girls sing the above verses overlapping in harmony.

Layla and Envy sing:
Together forever for eternity,
Dressed in white,
Our tears wiped away by the glassy sea. (repeat)

End of Song
Lights out. End of scene 3