2022 PFC Anthology | Page 28

Magic boxes ? Latin ? Listen Aquila , I ’ m sure that you ’ re a nice person but- ( cut off ).
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OLD WOMAN Oh yes , very nice and you Mark a good boy . Sit . Sit . ( To TOM ) I was just making some pulmenti- how you say- soup .
I ’ m not really hungry . Neither is Tom .
MARK
OLD WOMAN Pulmenti- not for stomach silly boy but for the ( looking at Tom ) anima mea .
Anima mea ?
TOM
OLD WOMAN Anima mea , anima tua . My soul , your soul . The Soul .
Tom . Please ?
If you want to go , then go . I need to stay here .
MARK
TOM
MARK I don ’ t know how to get back by myself . I have a bad feeling about this .
OLD WOMAN Mark you may go . You will find your way home eventually . Good bye . Nice to meet you . ( She starts to pour two bowls of the soup .) Tom and I must partake of Pulmenti .
Don ’ t take candy- err- soup from strangers !
Her name is Aquila .
MARK
TOM
OLD WOMAN You Mark . He Tom . I Aquila . We are friends . No , how you say , strangers .
MARK I don ’ t want to die and if we stay here I have a feeling that we are going to die . We need to go . NOW !
OLD WOMAN Mark you leave . Goodbye ! Tom eat Pulmenti it will cure all- no die . Only be healthy .
MARK We ’ re fine . We are healthy- we don ’ t need your magical soup . I ’ m leaving with or without you .