('Gangsta's Paradise' by Coolio)
A child stands next to a man in
the center, unseen in a cloak, watching as a procession of other
children walk into the sea. A priest gives his prayers for future life
and peace.
Unseen - "You need to be in that water, kid."
Nocturne - "I'm not going in that water."
Unseen - "Then it's Sanctuary, for you."
Nocturne - "Hell no."
Voiced over as they watch ~
"It was just more souls all day every. Every hell broken, every cage opened, the prisons were burned to the ground.
"Nameless past the gates believed in freedom, but he never really did think ahead about it. What would they do ? Many joined his march for solace in the infinite future. A sense of purpose against the still unknown.
"Some went to school, made lives, to go back better or to help the here and now with the living in the room.
"Most walked back into the sea, into their next lives wherever and what, they may be.
"And the rest ? The shanty towns grew outside the open gates, people remembering what lives they once lived. A marketplace spawned between, filled with all their myths remembered, and all their favorite swords and toys.
"Dreams for sale."
"That war may have come and then ended in that field, twilight come and gone but their weapons ... their treasures and their kingdoms ? Didn't take them with them.
"The Profane Wars still rage on.
"It all grew so insane, so quickly with these forgotten means and ways, artifacts found, lost realms discovered and claimed, looted, there was soon nothing but marketplace left. That's when Legba came first, followed by brother and sister, cousin and child.
"And not one law. Not even Sanctuary law, here. There is decision. The ability to make it. Business. And countless lost souls looking for a way back to the sea, or a way to avoid it.
"Death for the dead, is life."
Unseen - Looking down as the children walk in, "What do you expect to do here ? Look around kid. There's no orphanage. This is the marketplace. You will be bought and you will be sold."
Nocturne - "No."
She looks up at him and cries. He looks down coldly before cracking and tears fall. He picks her up and disappears into the alley.
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At Lucretia's tree.
Unseen - "Did you track them ?"
Lucretia - Handing him a small book, "I did. This should be enough to track among the living. Can she handle it ?"
Unseen - "She refuses to die. Have you seen ?"
Lucretia - "I have. Reason ?"
Unseen - "None. She refuses."
Lucretia - "I guess not dying is a requirement, so I'll leave it at that. Let me know if you do find a reason ?"
Unseen - Leaving while paging through the book, "No."
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The guard from the dock wakes in the real world from nightmare.
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The cloaked man exits the tree from the roots, Nocturne waiting.
Nocturne (Adult) - "Where ?"
He hands her the book.
Unseen - "You need to be in that water, kid."
Nocturne - "I'm not going in that water."
Unseen - "Then it's Sanctuary, for you."
Nocturne - "Hell no."
Voiced over as they watch ~
"It was just more souls all day every. Every hell broken, every cage opened, the prisons were burned to the ground.
"Nameless past the gates believed in freedom, but he never really did think ahead about it. What would they do ? Many joined his march for solace in the infinite future. A sense of purpose against the still unknown.
"Some went to school, made lives, to go back better or to help the here and now with the living in the room.
"Most walked back into the sea, into their next lives wherever and what, they may be.
"And the rest ? The shanty towns grew outside the open gates, people remembering what lives they once lived. A marketplace spawned between, filled with all their myths remembered, and all their favorite swords and toys.
"Dreams for sale."
"That war may have come and then ended in that field, twilight come and gone but their weapons ... their treasures and their kingdoms ? Didn't take them with them.
"The Profane Wars still rage on.
"It all grew so insane, so quickly with these forgotten means and ways, artifacts found, lost realms discovered and claimed, looted, there was soon nothing but marketplace left. That's when Legba came first, followed by brother and sister, cousin and child.
"And not one law. Not even Sanctuary law, here. There is decision. The ability to make it. Business. And countless lost souls looking for a way back to the sea, or a way to avoid it.
"Death for the dead, is life."
Unseen - Looking down as the children walk in, "What do you expect to do here ? Look around kid. There's no orphanage. This is the marketplace. You will be bought and you will be sold."
Nocturne - "No."
She looks up at him and cries. He looks down coldly before cracking and tears fall. He picks her up and disappears into the alley.
________
At Lucretia's tree.
Unseen - "Did you track them ?"
Lucretia - Handing him a small book, "I did. This should be enough to track among the living. Can she handle it ?"
Unseen - "She refuses to die. Have you seen ?"
Lucretia - "I have. Reason ?"
Unseen - "None. She refuses."
Lucretia - "I guess not dying is a requirement, so I'll leave it at that. Let me know if you do find a reason ?"
Unseen - Leaving while paging through the book, "No."
____
The guard from the dock wakes in the real world from nightmare.
____
The cloaked man exits the tree from the roots, Nocturne waiting.
Nocturne (Adult) - "Where ?"
He hands her the book.
('Hollywood' by George Clinton)
The
uncomfortable guard seen at the dock drives down the street in hollywood, an
occasional person in the crowd eying his drive.
Camera views follow power lines to buildings and stopping where they do, the car turns a corner, the camera wraps around the building.
Through and into the parking garage, on the security monitors to the elevator, joined by others seen from the docks in their normal clothes, avoiding eye contact, coming and going on the ride to the top floor.
The camera pulls as phones ring and messages checked, words in the texts meaning nothing. The doors open and he walks through the office, ringing phones, down the halls, noisy electronics until he sits at his desk. The phone rings.
Receptionist - "Sigmund Casting."
He turns to the back office past the secretary the deck commander), she looks back and shakes her head before looking away uncomfortably.
Receptionist - "I'm sorry, Mr Calendar is with a client at the moment. May I leave a message ?"
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Doe - In the first floor street entry, "Won't be necessary, have a nice day." He taps the phone, "Get it ?"
Lucretia's voice - "Got it."
Doe - Turning to the door, "Good."
He hangs up and leaves as the car pulls up, the door opens, Nocturne driving.
Camera views follow power lines to buildings and stopping where they do, the car turns a corner, the camera wraps around the building.
Through and into the parking garage, on the security monitors to the elevator, joined by others seen from the docks in their normal clothes, avoiding eye contact, coming and going on the ride to the top floor.
The camera pulls as phones ring and messages checked, words in the texts meaning nothing. The doors open and he walks through the office, ringing phones, down the halls, noisy electronics until he sits at his desk. The phone rings.
Receptionist - "Sigmund Casting."
He turns to the back office past the secretary the deck commander), she looks back and shakes her head before looking away uncomfortably.
Receptionist - "I'm sorry, Mr Calendar is with a client at the moment. May I leave a message ?"
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Doe - In the first floor street entry, "Won't be necessary, have a nice day." He taps the phone, "Get it ?"
Lucretia's voice - "Got it."
Doe - Turning to the door, "Good."
He hangs up and leaves as the car pulls up, the door opens, Nocturne driving.
('Kush' By Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Akon)
Two identical lighters twist a flame under the hood of the unseen man's hood. He
lifts his head, Mikal's face with a blunt looking at the camera
seriously.
He stares with a feigned contempt, then smiles and exhales a smoke across the view. Back along the path of the receptionist's drive, sharp beams across shadow in the setting sun, the smoke twists as a mist from the sea.
The entry way diffuses to the wires in the walls, signals glowing in passage, seen through the walls Doe gets into the car. The signals through the wires glow bright with amplification as the smoke drifts through, amplifying.
A plasma drips from the forms as their two worlds begin to entangle.
As the people continue their day, the entanglement follows them, wall in the plasma coding to information and redefined, followed by their bodies, random spots showing red.
As they continue their separate ways home and out, the map grows through over the growing view of the city, a distant jet taking of and pulling the map out in scope from the corner. It grows to include the world, with networks sprawling in tow.
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Doe - Taps a console button, "How's the map ?"
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Lucretia - In her tree looking at a projected wire frame map of an environment being generated, "It's good ... next time they sleep, entanglement will be complete and we can begin the environmental reconstruction. Nocturne. How does it look to you ?"
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Nocturne - Watching the world reforming around her, then looking at Doe glowing bright, "Fucking gorgeous ..."
He stares with a feigned contempt, then smiles and exhales a smoke across the view. Back along the path of the receptionist's drive, sharp beams across shadow in the setting sun, the smoke twists as a mist from the sea.
The entry way diffuses to the wires in the walls, signals glowing in passage, seen through the walls Doe gets into the car. The signals through the wires glow bright with amplification as the smoke drifts through, amplifying.
A plasma drips from the forms as their two worlds begin to entangle.
As the people continue their day, the entanglement follows them, wall in the plasma coding to information and redefined, followed by their bodies, random spots showing red.
As they continue their separate ways home and out, the map grows through over the growing view of the city, a distant jet taking of and pulling the map out in scope from the corner. It grows to include the world, with networks sprawling in tow.
____
Doe - Taps a console button, "How's the map ?"
____
Lucretia - In her tree looking at a projected wire frame map of an environment being generated, "It's good ... next time they sleep, entanglement will be complete and we can begin the environmental reconstruction. Nocturne. How does it look to you ?"
____
Nocturne - Watching the world reforming around her, then looking at Doe glowing bright, "Fucking gorgeous ..."