90 lines
2.5 KiB
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90 lines
2.5 KiB
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<vnscene name="Scene1Prologue" extend="scenes/SceneBase">
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<events>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">I wake.</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">I gasp. I close my eyes - I’m fine, I’m fine. I'm still here. Breathing.</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">That bucket was a dream. My death was a dream. I’m not dead.</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">(Am I?)</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">(...)</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">(Aren't I?)</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">Of course I’m not.</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">I exhale. My feet fall to the edges of my bed. Slowly, I raise myself to stand.</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">My fingers tremble by the edges of my leg: I curl my hand in. My nails catch on my skin. They’re sharp, pastel pink. Done for Prom Day today.</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">The dream didn’t happen. How could it have? Prom Day hasn’t happened yet. </string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">I'm fine.</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">(Didn’t it happen?)</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">(It felt so…)</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">(Real.)</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">I tidy the bedsheets. Pull the corners over the bed’s edges, fluff up the pillows, pat away the sweat and the residue of a scream: my parents want it pretty.</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">It wasn’t real. I only had a visceral dream, sunken into my brain as an anchor to a sea, as a stone angel’s crumbling visage, as a bird’s descent off Devil Cradle’s cliffs. That wasn’t real.</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">No, of course not. </string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">My calendar says May 29th. I’ve got to prepare for Prom.</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">After all, if there is anything I will be, it is Prom Queen.</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">I’ve been chasing this moment since the beginning of time. Today is the finale. </string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">And I am nothing if not ready. </string>
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</text>
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</events>
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</vnscene> |