I didn ’ t ….
Feste once told me at school that her mother was talking about ‘ the other ones :’ the ones from the past , the hundreds of details from the past . She said they haunted her house . She said she found their portrait .
Are these the other ones ?
Mom ?
Dad ?
Feste said she found a folder , a folder of all the other ones . And there were pictures . And she described their eyes .
Blank , she said , blank .
( LEILA walks closer to KLARA , looking into her eyes )
Blank , like these . Almost … fake .
She would bring it up to her mother , talk about the fake .
But as soon as those words would exit her mouth , a ticking would sound .
Fill their entire house .
Quench her words , and she would not be able to think .
So she ’ d stop thinking .
And the ticking would stop .
( A beeping alarm sound start resounding , from LEILA ’ s body )
( there is a pause between the bees that seems almost too long , but then the sound goes on . GRACE and GABRIEL are frantically moving around , searching for a control somewhere .
The beeping gets louder )