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SCENE 7: THE MURDERED MAN, CHANNELED BY A MEDIUM
(We are in a new reality. The vastness of empty space.)
THE MEDIUM
Silence
is the sound
of a heart
growing cold.
As the mountain
throws its shadow
across the grove.
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
Cold heart, cold bones,
weak heart, my heart was weak.
Rheumatic fever
when I was three.
Sentenced to half a life.
Weak heart. I was weak.
I couldn’t bear for her to know.
THE OUTLAW
Greetings, good day.
LEONA
Darkness falling.
Ambrose. We need to go.
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
So I kept it from her. My heart.
Kept it from me.
Pushed it down,
under the skin
of who I was,
how I wanted to be seen.
THE OUTLAW
Greetings, good day.
I’m on my way to dig up
a haul of shining gold
you’ve never set your eyes on.
Care to join me?
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
And so,
needing to prove
I was invincible,
wanting to give her the moon,
I fell for his ruse.
LEONA
Moonstones? Opals?
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
Her glow so bright.
LEONA
Moonstones? Opals?
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
I could hardly believe—
Was she mine?
LEONA
But I don’t care about—
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
Needing to prove—
I walked into his net,
left her waiting,
alone.
(Jumping forward in time.)
Blindfolded, bound,
my mind’s eye—
Sounds too terrible to—
THE OUTLAW
I will take her
from you,
I will break her into bits.
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
As he lured her and he took her,
as he used her,
as he broke her,
as, my back turned, bound,
I could do nothing.
LEONA
Ambrose!
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
She stops him with a stone.
THE OUTLAW
Sky spinning, lights flashing—
LEONA
Look at me!
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
But I don’t.
Fearing the weakness she sees
inscribed in me—
LEONA
I don’t understand.
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
Afraid to face my own frailty
reflected in her gaze—
My heart—
LEONA
Your heart?
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
My heart.
I try to speak—
I fail.
I should have told her then,
LEONA
Your heart?
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
I should have told her then,
but I hated her
like I’d loved her—
swept up in a storm
of love and hate—
hated myself more than anything—
I was in too deep,
LEONA
Ambrose! You brought us here.
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
I’d obscured who I was.
LEONA
Do something!
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
My feebleness an afterthought,
I gave in to the fate—
LEONA
Don’t just—
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
—written on my leaky valves.
LEONA
Ambrose!
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
Less than half a life.
THE OUTLAW
I pull myself up, unsteady—
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
I had no choice but to fight.
I faded soon enough.
(Reprise echo of decayed gunshot. As he’s dying)
Hating her for stepping in,
hating myself more than anything,
THE OUTLAW
I grab the gun and go.
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
I hold it close—
My heart’s atrophy—
LEONA
Agrimony, yarrow, goldenrod—
Ambrose, why won’t you look at me?
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
I heard, I saw—
I cut as she tends to me:
LEONA
Nothing. You saw nothing.
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
I heard, I saw, I know—
LEONA
Nettle, dock, pyrola.
I can help you—
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
You’re nothing to me.
I leave her.
I slide towards unknowingness,
letting her believe—
LEONA
I failed to apply pressure to the wound—
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
And so I broke her.
LEONA
It was me. I killed him.
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
And now—
There’s no turning back.
I can’t absolve her.
No matter how far she travels
from this blackened grove—
LEONA
Heartwood cracked.
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
—every time she shuts her eyes
she’ll see what she believes
she did to me.
LEONA
I stand before you, a murderer—
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
So I stay—
here,
in between,
splintered saplings,
trampled ground.
LEONA
Smoke, ash, smoldering ghosts—
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
A bed of broken fireweed.
THE OUTLAW
The grove, as quiet as the grave.
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
Lost, lurching through the emptiness.
LEONA
Looming trees—
THE MEDIUM & AMBROSE
Haunted by her opal eyes, even in this dim.
Blockaded
by venom, dolor, remorse.
Silence is the sound of a heart
growing cold.
As the mountain
throws its shadow
across the grove.
Hemlock fading,
birdsong flown,
shrouding
the silence of the sky’s
dissolving
as I fall into the arms
of unending dark—