Elphaba asks Glinda to let her go. She asks Glinda to carry the legacy. And Glinda, who never stops loving Elphaba, agrees to marry into the system that killed her.
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Their romance is physical in a way her relationship with Glinda is not. Fiyero sees Elphaba’s body—her strange, powerful, green body—and desires it. In "Dancing Through Life," he offers her a philosophy of survival through numbness. Elphaba rejects it. But later, when she is "Wicked," his philosophy of reckless abandon becomes her only escape. Elphaba asks Glinda to let her go