Sabina

I've memorized the whole Act Three aria. They say nobody needs a second understudy, but if the first one loses her voice, that changes everything.

• Teacher RemusGirls who talk like that are always the first to lose their voice.
  SabinaI check mine every single day, doctor.
• Doña OrtizI'm not taking that dress in.
  SabinaThen I'll just have to shrink.

The tuning fork wound in red thread rings from the same spot every morning. It scares me sometimes, being the only one in this theater who can hear it's dropped half a tone since yesterday.

• Old TiburcioThat sound's the reason the dogs bark every dawn.
  SabinaDogs are honest, at least.
• InacioThere's no such clause in the understudy contract...
  SabinaDoing what's not in the contract is exactly what makes me the understudy.