The scene opens with a creak. It's the morning, and the servant is complaining about how tired he feels. He's been working all day, and he doesn't want to push his body too hard. The servant tells him that he's a friend of Sora's, and that he should come to the pond and warm up. He tells the servant that he knows that Sora is hot, and so he wants to talk to her about it, but the servant won't let him, because he works at the pond. He asks the servant if he knows what's going on with Sora, and when the servant says that he does, the servant asks him if he'd like to whisper something to her. When the servant replies that he would like to hear it,