| Grimm: |
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I’m
tired. I’m tired…
(gasping for air)
This place looks like a great place where I can spend
the night.
(DARKNESS is wondering and hears the huffing and
puffing.
SHE goes to see what it is, and bumps into something
rocky
and bigger than a human. For a moment, SHE thinks it’s
a
piece of trash.)
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| Darkness: |
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Hum!
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| Grimm: |
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Who
goes there? |
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| Darkness: |
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No, who
goes there?
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| Grimm: |
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Well, if
you are…where are you? How come I can’t see
you?
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| Darkness: |
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You
can’t see me but I can see you. |
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| Grimm: |
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How
can that be, I got eyes too! Are you trying to say, I’m
blind? |
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| Darkness: |
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Are you
coming into my place and giving me attitude?!
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| Grimm: |
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No,
I just want some sleep. |
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| Darkness: |
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How
did you figure that this could be a good place to sleep?
Aren’t you scared? |
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| Grimm: |
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Scared?
Why? I’m bigger than a human and I can blow dark-blue
and light green flames. Aren’t you scared of that?
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| Darkness: |
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It’s
not like you could do something—you don’t even
know where I’m at! |
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| Grimm: |
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The
only reason I can see you is because it’s dark. But
maybe if I brought in a little light I could see you?
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| Darkness: |
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What
did you just say about light? |
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| Grimm: |
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I said that
once I bring in a little bit of light it won’t
be dark no more.
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| Darkness: |
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How
are you going to make that happen? And plus, if you bring
light, I’ll disappear. |
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| Grimm: |
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So,
what. You trying to say, you’re a ghost? You trying
to scare me? |
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| Darkness: |
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No! No!
No! I ‘m Darkness; I’m here to help someone
like you.
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| Grimm: |
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So, if you’re
trying to help, come on, let me see you!
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| Darkness: |
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Well, I’m
afraid I can’t help you with that. I’m not
supposed to be seen.
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| Grimm: |
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(continues
walking, searching for a patch of Darkness.)
Is it because you are at the farther end of the Tunnel?
Come on, I’m tired! I want to sleep.
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| Darkness: |
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Is
that your only purpose for coming in here? |
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| Grimm: |
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No,
I thought if I found a dark and quiet place I could sit
and think, right before I sleep. |
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| Darkness: |
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Think.
Think about what? What do you have to think about? |
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| Grimm: |
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Well…I
have a lot of problems. But I don’t want to get into
it. I have to get to sleep! |
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| Darkness: |
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Problems!
What kind of problems? |
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| Grimm: |
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Why
are you asking all these questions? I thought DARKNESS
was supposed to be a place where things can hang out and
be left alone—so quit b-u-g-g-i-n-g me! |
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| Darkness: |
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Oooh!
A little attitude. Is it bugging you that much? |
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| Grimm: |
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Nothing’s
bugging me! Well…
(Long silence) |
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| Darkness: |
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Well,
what—what is it? I want to hear it! |
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| Grimm: |
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Why
would you want to hear someone’s problems? No one
hears my problems. |
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| Darkness: |
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Are
you afraid of telling someone again? Do you think I won’t
listen? |
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| Grimm: |
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No,
it’s just that I talk about it and they don’t
listen. It just hurts more and more. |
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| Darkness: |
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What
do you mean—hurts. Do you mean, pain? |
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| Grimm: |
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Well
then if that’s what you want to call it, then yeah.
(Short silence) |
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| Darkness: |
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Well,
everybody feels pain. I feel pain myself. |
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| Grimm: |
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You
feel pain too!? |
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| Darkness: |
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Of
course I do. |
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| Grimm: |
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If
you feel pain too, what kind? |
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| Darkness: |
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Desires!
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| Grimm: |
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Desires.
Of what? |
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| Darkness: |
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Desires.
Desires of meeting my family.
(Short silence) |
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| Grimm: |
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Family?
You have Family?
(Short silence) |
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| Darkness: |
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Humm… |
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| Grimm: |
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So,
you’re trying to say that you have family. What kind
of family? |
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| Darkness: |
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I’m
the Darkness, of course I have family. The other side
of me is Light.
(GRIMMM starts walking again, then sits and wonders,
for a long silence)
Are you okay? Why the silence all of a sudden? |
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| Grimm: |
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Because
I’m in the same situation as you? |
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| Darkness: |
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Why,
do you have family? |
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| Grimm: |
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Can
I ask you something? |
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| Darkness: |
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Yeah,
go ahead. Ask me anything. |
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| Grimm: |
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If
I do, I want to be sure that you listen to me. |
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| Darkness: |
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Haven’t
I been doing that for all this time? |
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| Grimm: |
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Well,
yeah. It’s a long story. |
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| Darkness: |
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I
ain’t going no where. |
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| Grimm: |
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Well,
can you listen?
(Short silence) |
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| Darkness: |
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It
looks like you and me have something in common. |
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| Grimm: |
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What
do we have in common? |
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| Darkness: |
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I
haven’t seen my family and you haven’t found
someone that listens to you. |
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| Grimm: |
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So
what can I do for you that you can do for me? |
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| Darkness: |
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How
about you close your eyes--visualize and let it all out.
I’ll sit and listen and maybe you can help me find
and see my family?
(Short silence) |
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| Grimm: |
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(Slowly
GRIMM thinks about this and then closes his eyes.)
My whole life I lived in Darkness. I don’t know my
family. I was left in an oval shape by the time I was
ready to hatch. There was no one around. So, I had to
grow up on my own. Everyday that went by, I thought about
what had happened to them or where could they be? As I
grew up, I had to fight a lot of struggles. I hid all
my problems that made me a sad, mad monster and basically
my whole life has been Darkness, that’s why I search
for Darkness, because that’s all I ever had.
(GRIMM gently opens his eyes.)
(Long silence)
Darkness are you there? |
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| Darkness: |
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Yes
of course I’m still here. I’ve been listening.
It’s just a sad story that made me shed tears. |
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| Grimm: |
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Thank
you for listening. Now, what can I do for you?
(Short silence) |
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| Darkness: |
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We
made an agreement that I would listen to you and you would
help me find and see my family. |
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| Grimm: |
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It’s
pretty darn cold in here and all the trees are dried.
How come we don’t heat it up a little bit?
(GRIMM looks up with happiness and then rolls up high
in the sky while his wings spread out.)
I’m so happy for the first time someone has actually
listened to m-e!
(Suddenly flames from Grimm’s computer-like mouth
burst
into the sky, making the dried trees burn and creating
a big opening.) |
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| Darkness: |
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Whoa!
Look at those dark-blue and green-natured flames. You
created a big opening in the sky! Is t-h-a-t Light? |
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| Grimm: |
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Yeah,
that’s Light! And those are called stars.
(With great relief and happiness) |
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| Darkness: |
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That’s
my Family!
(A special light shines as the morning sun comes in.
For the first
time, light appeared in DARKNESS’ Tunnel and DARKNESS
saw her family, Light! After this GRIMM would fly to the
Tunnel every night
and they lived happily ever after.) |
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The
End. |
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