• Scene 1:

    Elis: Why?

    Sallie: Because I had t-

    Elis: (Cutting her off) Don’t give me that! (beat) Why do you keep doing this, Sallie?(Yelling) WHY? (Sallie remains silent) ANSWER ME! (giving up) Why don’t you answer?

    [Sallie closes her eyes, Elis yells and barges in the house, slamming the screen door behind him. Sallie walks away into the forest without a sound. It begins to rain.]

    [Michael is sitting at the kitchen table with a glass of water when Elis barges in.]

    Michael: What happened?

    Elis: Sallie lied. Her name isn’t Sallie, or Maryon, or Aleza, or ANY of the ones before that!

    Michael: Elis, I’m sure she had her reasons,

    Elis: Shut up, Mike.

    Michael: (continues talking over him) After all, she’s never exactly been normal by our standards-

    Elis: I said SHUT UP!

    Michael: (pauses) What is her name this time?

    Elis: I don’t know. And I don’t care anymore…

    [Elis storms up the stairs as Kae rushes into the room]

    Kae: Her real name…. is Zae. [sits across from Michael]

    Michael: Her “Real” Name, eh?

    Kae: Believe me, I know.

    Michael: That’s not going to convince Elis…

    Kae: Obviously. His special one lied to him… Again. It’s just…

    Michael: What?

    Kae: I’m her sister.

    Michael: (there is a bit of a stunned silence) You’ve been lying to us, Lying to me, too?

    Kae: I had to! We had to, for everyone’s safety! (Michael is silent) Mike!

    Michael: (shaky) You.. lied to me… Who are you, then? What is your name.. if it isn’t Kae…

    Kae: No, that part is true. Zae, Kae, I thought you would have noticed the vowel similarity? ( Michael is stone still and silent) Michael, [grabs his hands] Listen to me! Let me explain fully…

    [Michael looks up at her forlornly]

    Michael: Truth. No Lies.

    Kae: [nods and pauses before continuing] Me and Zae…are not human.

    Michael: I think I could have guessed that.. So, what are you, vamps?

    Kae: Hardly. But let me explain.. Our parents…are not human either, they are dangerous beings, who would destroy any mortal who gets in thei-

    Michael: Whu-whu-whu-Wait! You’re Immortal??

    Kae:…somewhat?

    [Michael lets out a big groan]

    Kae: But.. My parents are ruthless, dastardly beings who kill, destroy and murder as easily as one breathes. Me and Sallie, though, are not like them. We got a chance to run. But they pursue us. Sallie changed her name because sometimes a name is all it takes for them to find us.

    Michael: Why didn’t you change your name then?

    Kae: They can only hear our names being said. Never the conversations around them. It is like… an echo.. A rustle in the bushes to them in the vast woods that is the world. My name can be said freely because it has different variations to the ear. But Sallie… Her name is different.. So once it is said, it must be changed. This time, though, I made an exception to tell you, but I masked it first. Every once in a while we are granted a chance to do that.

    Elis: [barges in] Bullshit! Get the hell out of my house! You’re as much of a lying piece of s**t as your sister, you-

    Kae: [raises her hand towards Elis] Ecoma zee!!

    [Elis continues yelling but no sound Is heard]

    Michael: What did you just do?

    Kae: What I can. He can only talk when I allow until it wears off. Elis, how much did you hear?

    Elis: Enough. What the fff- [muffled again]

    Kae: (somewhat pleading with him) You must realize, then, that it is for your own safety.

    Michael: So what are you and Z-.. er.. Sallie, then?

    Kae: We…are known as Daemons.. But it is not what humans normally think when that word is spoken.

    Michael: Demons?

    Kae: Not that. But.. My parents are closer to that, one could say.

    Michael: Then what are you?

    Kae: (slowly) we are the bearers of the inter-dimensional portal. The last of them.

    Michael: Bearers - B, Inter - I, Dimensional (mumbles)…. So you’re a BIDP? (he says it like Bid-puh)

    Kae: Just call us Bearers.

    Michael: Bearers, Got it.

    Elis: Bullshit. Shutting me up was barely anything. If you are who you are then your stories will be the same; Get Sallie back.. Or whoever she really is, and get her to explain too.

    Kae: Wait a second.. Why are you talking? That spell should have lasted… (she stops talking then realizes something and gasps)
    Elis: Do you hear me? Get Sallie and make her tell me the truth or you both will be out of my house by sunrise! [Elis Exits]

    Michael: [looks directly at Kae] We better find Sallie.

    Scene 2: In the forest

    Zae (Sallie) Is sitting on the ground in front of a pond, staring as raindrops hit the water’s surface.

    Zae: I know you’re there.

    [ A faun, Black as night comes out of the brush directly across the pond, his name is Cazten]

    Cazten: Your sister was foolish. It will only be a matter of time before our master finds you.

    Zae: He is only your master, Caz. Never has he been mine and never shall he.

    Cazten: You are very mistaken. He has always been there to control you, to choose where you and your sister run and hide; but one day he will also be the one to take you both back with him so you can once again open the portal.

    Zae: Which will kill us in the process, meaning he cannot return to this world once he goes. That’s why he sent you. To find us before we find Des ti ul Portales and seal you and him within where you belong.

    Cazten: You were foolish to deny him passage to Editan those years ago. You would be home by now if you had; your sister too.

    Zae: Well, my shadow-swathed friend, you are foolish you realize that this conversation has no more meaning unless you are here to tell me he has given up his chase of us.

    Cazten: The stench of human pervades my nostrils. Be happy I let you alone this time.. Next time I won’t hesitate.

    [Distant]
    Michael: Sallie! Can you hear us?

    Kae: Where are you, Sal?

    [Zae gets up and walks to them]

    Kae: There you are! We need to bring you back to convince Elis we speak the truth!
    Zae: Elis knows.

    Michael: So I’m really the only truthful person here?

    Zae: Believe me, he knows

    Kae: Elis Des ti ul Portales?

    Zae: A definite possibility.

    Michael: Wait, what?? Dez tee ool Portal ess? What’s happening?

    Kae: It means we’ve got to go find Elis, Come on, Mike!

    [Kae grabs Michael by the arm and they all run back towards the house]