(WORLDS APART)
ACT TWO:
SCENE ONE:
SETTING:
Modern day Bamboola, a moon orbiting the planet Ra 17. A bedroom with huge openings in octagonal shapes with orange light filtering in, there are sounds coming from the street below. People talking in an alien language. Strange animal cries. There is a large bed in the center of the room and the covers cover a form which stirs and eventually throws back the covers.
MERESANKH Throws the covers from her form and stands, she is a splendid figure indeed. We see that she is rather tall and while not thin she is muscular for a female. As we look closer we notice that there are some things that are different about her. Her eyes are all black like her skin and she walks rather gracefully. More like an animal than a human. Yet we can see that she is clearly human or some derivative thereof. There is a light fur on her body and it to is a shade like her skin. We can see it as it shines. She has no need to wear a lot of clothes and the skirt and the blouse that she wears are semi transparent. Her hands end in long nails more like claws than the nails of a human on earth.
MERESANKH Stands and walk into a room adjacent to the one she is in and we hear the sound of water being ran. she is only gone for a minute and as she walks back in the room she presses a button and the sounds of the street subside. There is a knock on her door and she says "Enter."
ABAALISABA Peeks into the room and say's "My sister. It is good to see that you make morning with us."
MERESANKH My brother it is good to see you make morning as well. May your day be blessed upon your rising.
ABAALISABA And yours my sister. He walks towards her and extends his hand. MERESANKH takes his hand and lowers her eyes. ABAALISABA puts his hand under her chin and raises her face.
ABAALISABA It pains me to see you so trapped in the pasts of our goings my sister.
MERESANKH It is in our goings that we are found my brother. Their voices still fill my waking and my lying down, I cannot escape them. Our parents and my husbands. They haunt me with every step that I take. They echo into my whole and there is no relief from them.
ABAALISABA Sometimes my sister it seems a gift becomes a curse and it is your power that has become your weakness. I hurt for you my sister but you must overcome the goings. Then and only then will you be happy.
ABAALISABA Turns and walks from the room. There are no goodbyes, it is not the custom.
MERESANKH Sits on the bed and looks off into space for a second and there is another knock on the door and she answers "Enter." KHAMA'AT Opens the door and walks in. She is a little older than MERESANKH and her face is a little plainer but it looks good on her. She is very confident and we see that in her bearing. She is MERESANKH'S Sister in law and even though their personalities are different she and MERESANKH behave more like sisters than in-laws. She says "It is good to see you make morning my sister."
MERESANKH As it is good to see you make morning my sister. They embrace and sit on the bed as they begin to talk.
KHAMA'AT My little sister your pain pains your brother and I. What can we do to take you away from this pain. You have not left the gates of this home in many periods of rotation. The light and the dark finds you like a ghost roaming the halls. Sitting in the room of books. My sister you are the most important thing to me besides my husband and I want to share in your joy yet I am confined to your misery. She takes the hand of MERESANKH and places it to her forehead and then to her lips. "My life force is your life force my sister.
MERESANKH Looks into KHAMA'AT'S eyes and breathes deeply. "My sister in you has my brother found peace but my peace is gone away into the goings, his body turned to ash. Such little time we had together and I am left listening to his whispers as they come and go. For some reason we still remain bound even in the going.
KHAMA'AT Sighs and stands, My sister I am sure that you will find a way to overcome the pain. Trust that I will walk with you. Let us go and make the morning meal together.
MERESANKH AND KHAMA'AT stand and leave the room together.
ACT TWO: SCENE TWO: MERESANKH sits in a room where she is surrounded by books, she sits silently and closes her eyes. We hear sounds like whispers in the air and she sighs as she seems to fall under their spell. After a moment she begins to cry and a voice is heard loud and clear.
The VOICE "What the hell."
MERESANKH Instantly stops crying and says to the empty room ""Who said that?"
The VOICE "Its me."
MERESANKH "Me who? Where are you? How did you get in my room?"
The VOICE This is my house and my living room, where are you?
MERESANKH No this is my room of books and my place of waking and sleeping. Where are you?
The VOICE I am here and you are as well. Where is here to you?
MERESANKH My place of waking and sleeping.
The VOICE Okay I do not know what that means. I mean where is home? I live on Joe Louis Street.
MERESANKH What is home? What is street?
The VOICE "What the fuck? What do you mean what is street?"
MERESANKH I mean what is this street thing that you talk of? I live in Quadrant six, Sector 3 in the peoples quarter.
The VOICE What is that?
MERESANKH It is where I live.
The VOICE "Is this some kind of a prank or something?" The VOICE is fading.
MERESANKH "A prank? what is this thing prank?" The voice is gone and MERESANKH looks about in confusion as she yells to the empty room. "Come back." She looks around before she yells again "Come back!"
The door opens and KHAMAAT looks in, MERESANKH who do you make the small roar for?
MERESANKH Looks around and says "Did someone just pass you in the great room my sister?
KHAMA'AT Looks at her in a strange way and says "Are you okay my sister? There is no one here but us. Your brother attends the council meeting and we are alone to ourselves. Are you sure that you are of the best way now?
MERESANKH Catches the turmoil in her sister in laws voice and says quickly "I am of the best way my sister I was just asking. I thought I heard something fall. Thats all.
KHAMA'AT Okay my sister do you mind if I sit with you as the day progresses. I would like to discuss some things with you. The business of the place of our waking and our lyings must be attended to and I need your insights.
MERESANKH Come my sister. KHAMA'AT walks to her and sits beside her and they start to discuss things as the scene fades to black.
JERALD HAMZAHFARUQ MURPHY
