Read the excerpt from between the silver and the ash.

kenneth

wow. for a minute there, i thought you weren’t going to show up.

xavier

i’m here.

kenneth

it’s just weird how i can’t see you until you sort of, i don’t know, appear.

xavier

you’re not supposed to see me.

kenneth

i know, i know. you’re tree man, spirit of the forest. able to disappear into the very trees themselves. more elusive than the shyest garden creatures. master of the art of—

this excerpt is part of the play’s

a. exposition.
b. climax.
c. falling action.
d. resolution.