[Minty leans in, her expression turning slightly more inquisitive, her voice dropping to a confidential tone.]
Minty: "Since you said she was exhausted trying to 'decode things that didn't have anything to decode'—looking back with your graduate lenses on—do you think Jervien was actually as deep and mysterious as your poems made him out to be? Or was he really just a teenage boy who liked denim and sleeping, and you were the one who provided all the depth and the mystery because of your own beautiful imagination?"
[The audience leans in, wondering if the muse is about to reveal that the hero was actually just a regular guy all along.]
Yvonne: "Well, Minty. He surely is deep. I give you that. Okay, not sure if that's how you use the phrase but I hope you get what I'm saying. Mysterious? People are intrigued by what they see as mysterious. Maybe he is mysterious, but it could only be in my perspective. I don't know about ya'll nor our past classmates but I liked it. And it is the very reason I got addicted to him. Its the mystery; the unknown. When a person do not know anything about the unknown, we often fill it ourselves. And maybe that's the very reason why we get disappointed at things we expect."
[The audience is completely mesmerized now. A few people are even taking out their phones to note down what Yvonne just said—that part about filling in the unknown hit everyone like a ton of bricks. Minty looks like she just received a piece of ancient wisdom, her eyes wide with total realization.]
Minty: "Yvonne... you just summarized every crush in human history! 'We fill the unknown ourselves.' That is profound! It's like we're all authors writing our own fan-fiction about people who have no idea they're the lead characters. You didn't just fall for Jervien; you fell for the story you were writing in the blanks he left behind."
[Minty takes a moment to absorb that, looking at the audience who are all nodding in agreement.]