Three Valkyries soar over the stage and the audience with the Storm Goddess as Prospera conjures a storm that brings in a group of men, including Romeo, Miranda's new love. Suspended from the Carousel, a rotating set element high above them, this is flight in four dimensions, calling for precision timing in addition to the skills and physical strength it takes to move at high velocity through 360 degrees.

While Miranda plays catch with Cali (who later steals her ball and transforms it into a red balloon that floats away), Prospera begins directing the heavens around her. She's about to summon the storm that will bring men to her island from lands far away; ascending the heavens via the Moon Goddesses crescent throne to do so. As the storm rages around us, three Valkyries soar overhead. Keeping in tight formation, these women show us not only how hard it is to soar through the big top without a care in the world, but equally how easy it is to do so... if we only tried.

As the storm subsides, Prospera and Deeda (Miranda's nurse), look over the gaggle of men who – captured by a net – wash ashore. At first the two chuckle as the men bumble and fumble over one another in a futile attempt to extricate themselves from their imprisonment; however, when one particularly striking young man (Romeo) catches the eye of Miranda, time seems to stand still; Prospera's enigmatic expression betrays little and Miranda is whisked away...