Girls' Hostel - Dining Hall - Day One
A well equipped dining hall is filled with girls eating breakfast. The girls are all dressed alike aside from the color of their uniforms. There are many blue and tan colored uniforms. And there are a smaller number of girls wearing red, mostly older girls. MaiChelle and the seven other girls at her table are dressed in tan. While the other girls munch on biscuits, eggs and sausage, MaiChelle and her table-mates sit silently before empty plates. One of the young girls sitting next to MaiChelle clutches her rumbling stomach and whispers, "I'm starving." The woman sitting at the head of the long rectangular table springs to her feet and shouts at the girl who whispered, "Shut up! There's no talking allowed!"
The little girl begins to whimper. The woman whose long black robe which looks like a nun's costume complete with habit, sweeps the floor as she quickly walks towards the little girl. MaiChelle doesn't dare look in the domineering woman's direction. MaiChelle keeps her eyes on the empty plate that should be filled with food. The woman towers over the girl. She leans downward and gets in the crying girl's face. "And there's no crying either," the woman growls.
A bell rings and all the girls stop eating and quickly rise to their feet. A woman, wearing a white robe and nun's habit stands on top of a raised stage-like platform overlooking the dining hall.
"Sun Mooning!"
"Sun Mooning Madame Sister Rezzie," the girls respond in perfect unison.
"Today Daughter Dawning wants to share with us her first day of service."
A nervous looking girl of around 16 years old dressed in a red uniform tentatively approaches center stage. She peers out at the staring girls. Her lips quiver and her eyes water. She struggles to compose herself.
"It has been an honor to serve the elders of our great city Cal…," she hesitates, her chest rises. She peers over at Madame Sister Rezzie who peers back with fierce eyes. "One day, you too will have the honor of serving our elders. Do good obedience, do good thoughts and remake yourself in the image of our Gods."
The girls applaud.
"Thank you daughter," Madame Sister Rezzie says with relief as she applauds.
Dawning descends from the stage. As she passes MaiChelle, their eyes meet and there is an acknowledgement of some sort; but MaiChelle can't quite put her finger on it. Her eyes follow Dawning as she returns to the table of the red uniforms. The woman at the head of the table notices this and smiles, "Don't worry daughter, you will soon join her."
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
Episode 2: After The Darkness
Girl's Hostel - Night
MaiChelle awakens, her back against a hard cot and her arms and legs bound by plastic cuffs to the bed posts. Dazed, she looks around, peering around the room filled with girls in their pale grey nightgowns, slumbering on flimsy cots. Her eyes widen with alarm and confusion as her breathing escalates and she struggles to free herself. She weakly calls out to anyone who may hear, "Hello? Somebody…" The plastic cuffs make a dull clanking noise against the cot's metal posts as MaiChelle continues, in vain, to free herself. A girl in the cot next to MaiChelle opens her eyes which look like large black pearls set against her cinnamon skin. She presses her index finger against her dark lips, "Shhhh…they'll hear you," she says. The girl carefully crawls out of bed and perches at the edge of MaiChelle's cot. She peers down at MaiChelle's bruised face which scrunches in fear and pain. "They always tie the new girls up," she says. MaiChelle looks terrified at the girl's comment. The girl is surprised by MaiChelle's terror. She chuckles.
"You ain't from around here, is you?" she says. "Don't worry, you be alright…as long as you behave…whatcha' in for?"
MaiChelle is a little taken off by the question. "Nothing! I haven't done anything wrong! What is this, some type of prison?!"
The girl giggles. "Depend on who you ask? Go like this…" The girl demonstrates her request by grinning widely, baring all of her teeth which are crooked, stained and cracked. MaiChelle imitates the girl, revealing a set of perfectly straight and perfectly white teeth. The girl nods in approval. "Wow! Somebody gonna' get approved and promoted for sure! That one, this is true. You den' put a few notches in somebody's belt. That's for sure!" The girl laughs.
MaiChelle becomes very still, her face serious and inquisitive. "What is this place?" The girl stops laughing, her face matching and even surpassing MaiChelle's seriousness. "Look here new girl…" She hesitates as she sizes MaiChelle up. "You really don't know why you here, do you?"
"If you can just cut me loose, I can just leave," MaiChelle says.
The girl explodes into mocking laughter. "What?! And go where?!" The girl examines MaiChelle closely, climbing out of the bed and circling around her, closely looking at everything about MaiChelle. She looks at her expensive clothing, her new shoes, her perfectly manicured fingers, and the frightened look on her face. And then the girl's face lightens with a smile of victory, "Ha! A fallen angel!"
The girl, springs onto the bed, straddling MaiChelle's body and sitting on her chest. "Get off of me! You're hurting me!" MaiChelle yells, waking the other girls in the room who quickly gather around, hungry for violence. The girl viciously leans into MaiChelle's face, "How does it feel to be down in the dirt with the rest of us, fallen angel?!" The other girls who have gathered about the cot, cheer her own. A light fills the room. A woman stands in the doorway of the dormitory. The girls scatter, running back to their cots. "Kyra! Get back in your bed!" the woman yells across the room. Kyra climbs off of MaiChelle and returns to her bed. "Anymore disturbances tonight and you're all going to regret it!" the woman threatens. She slams the door shut.
DARKNESS.
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MaiChelle awakens, her back against a hard cot and her arms and legs bound by plastic cuffs to the bed posts. Dazed, she looks around, peering around the room filled with girls in their pale grey nightgowns, slumbering on flimsy cots. Her eyes widen with alarm and confusion as her breathing escalates and she struggles to free herself. She weakly calls out to anyone who may hear, "Hello? Somebody…" The plastic cuffs make a dull clanking noise against the cot's metal posts as MaiChelle continues, in vain, to free herself. A girl in the cot next to MaiChelle opens her eyes which look like large black pearls set against her cinnamon skin. She presses her index finger against her dark lips, "Shhhh…they'll hear you," she says. The girl carefully crawls out of bed and perches at the edge of MaiChelle's cot. She peers down at MaiChelle's bruised face which scrunches in fear and pain. "They always tie the new girls up," she says. MaiChelle looks terrified at the girl's comment. The girl is surprised by MaiChelle's terror. She chuckles.
"You ain't from around here, is you?" she says. "Don't worry, you be alright…as long as you behave…whatcha' in for?"
MaiChelle is a little taken off by the question. "Nothing! I haven't done anything wrong! What is this, some type of prison?!"
The girl giggles. "Depend on who you ask? Go like this…" The girl demonstrates her request by grinning widely, baring all of her teeth which are crooked, stained and cracked. MaiChelle imitates the girl, revealing a set of perfectly straight and perfectly white teeth. The girl nods in approval. "Wow! Somebody gonna' get approved and promoted for sure! That one, this is true. You den' put a few notches in somebody's belt. That's for sure!" The girl laughs.
MaiChelle becomes very still, her face serious and inquisitive. "What is this place?" The girl stops laughing, her face matching and even surpassing MaiChelle's seriousness. "Look here new girl…" She hesitates as she sizes MaiChelle up. "You really don't know why you here, do you?"
"If you can just cut me loose, I can just leave," MaiChelle says.
The girl explodes into mocking laughter. "What?! And go where?!" The girl examines MaiChelle closely, climbing out of the bed and circling around her, closely looking at everything about MaiChelle. She looks at her expensive clothing, her new shoes, her perfectly manicured fingers, and the frightened look on her face. And then the girl's face lightens with a smile of victory, "Ha! A fallen angel!"
The girl, springs onto the bed, straddling MaiChelle's body and sitting on her chest. "Get off of me! You're hurting me!" MaiChelle yells, waking the other girls in the room who quickly gather around, hungry for violence. The girl viciously leans into MaiChelle's face, "How does it feel to be down in the dirt with the rest of us, fallen angel?!" The other girls who have gathered about the cot, cheer her own. A light fills the room. A woman stands in the doorway of the dormitory. The girls scatter, running back to their cots. "Kyra! Get back in your bed!" the woman yells across the room. Kyra climbs off of MaiChelle and returns to her bed. "Anymore disturbances tonight and you're all going to regret it!" the woman threatens. She slams the door shut.
DARKNESS.
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