EXT – WOODS
(FREAK, SARIA, PEASANTS)
THE FREAK IS TIED TO A TREE, DESPERATELY TRYING TO ESCAPE. SARIA KISSES HIM AND A GOB OF MUCOUS TRAILS FROM THE CREATURE’S CHEEK TO HER MOUTH AFTER THE KISS.
SARIA
Don’t worry. I won’t judge you. I’m here to show that you have pathos before those villagers kill you. I mean…save you from the villagers.
THE ANGRY MOB APPEARS SEEMINGLY OUT OF NOWHERE.
PEASANT #1
There’s the beast! Destroy it!
SARIA
Wait! Can’t you people tell that this is a thinking, feeling creature?
PEASANT #2
Well, we certainly hope it is.
PEASANT #3
Yeah, if it wasn’t, how would it feel what we’re about to do to it?
PEASANT #2
Yeah, and how could it think about what it had done as it dies miserably?
SARIA
But it hasn’t done anything.
PEASANT #1
Well, yeah, but, I mean, it exists. Maybe technically existing isn’t an action, but it is a verb. It is doing something: it’s being.
PEASANT #2
Well, it’s tricky, you know, you don’t want to use the passive tense in this situation.
PEASANT #3
Well it is currently here. It offends us with it’s presence.
PEASANT #4
It’s offending, you could say.
PEASANT #5
Yeah, it’s offending us. That’s an active verb.
SARIA
Don’t you people understand? You can’t kill it just because it’s different. Who here is the real monster?
PEASANT #1
Well, I mean, again, you’re talking metaphorically. You’re referring to us as monsters because of what we plan to do which might be a bit cruel. But technically speaking, you know…
PEASANT #2
Yeah, I mean, if you really look up monster in the dictionary…
PEASANT #3
Yeah, I mean it’s not ordinary. We could call it a chimera if you like. In any case it certainly needs burning.
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