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ARKHAM: "MOTHER?"

ARKHAM: "IT'S ME"

ARKHAM: "I'VE BROUGHT YOU SOMETHING TO EAT"

ARKHAM CROSSES THE ROOM. TENSION BUILDS. HIS MOTHER SITS UP IN BED, SMILING IN A BLAND AND CHILLING WAY. SHE IS NOT A VERY OLD WOMAN - PERHAPS IN HER LATE 30'S - BUT HER HAIR HANGS IN PREMATURELY GRAY WISPS AND HER EYES ARE SUNKEN. HER HANDS ARE HIDDEN BEHIND HER BACK. HER CHEEKS BULGE SLIGHTLY. TWO IRISH WOLF HOUNDS SIT AT EITHER SIDE OF HER BED - IDENTIFYING HER WITH HECATE, THE GODDESS OF WITCHCRAFT AND THE MOON. (( THE WOMAN OF ARKHAMS IMMEDIATE FAMILY FORM A TRIAD - HIS MOTHER, THE HAG ASPECT, HIS WIFE, THE FERTILE MOTHER, AND HIS DAUGHTER, THE VIRGIN))

ARKHAM: "PLEASE, I THINK YOULD TRY TO EAT SOME OF THIS"

MOTHER: "MMF"

MOTHER: "EATEN"

ARKHAMS MOTHER LIFTS A FASTIDIOUS HAND UP TO HER MOUTH, PUSHING BACK SOME OF THE SQUIRMING BODIES THAT TRY TO ESCAPE FROM HER OPENING MOUTH. HER EXPRESSION IS THAT OF A GUILTY CHILD.

MOTHER: "I'VE EATEN"
MOTHER: "I'VE EATEN"

TEARS SPILL FROM HER EYES. AND EXPRESSION OF HELPLESS HORROR SKETCHES ITSELF ACROSS HER FACE AS A SHOWER OF BEETLES -SOME MASHED, SOME CRIPPLED, SOME ALIVE AND KICKING - FALLS FROM HER LIPS ONTO THE COUNTERPANE. HER TONGUE HANGS OUT, LAPPING AT THE AIR. THE IMAGE IS GROTESQUE

MOTHER: "I'VE EATEN"

ARKHAM STANDS SHELLSHOCKED. HE STARES AT THE BEETLES AS HIS MOTHERS FINGERS SCRABBLE ACROSS THE COUNTERPANE AFTER THE ESCAPEES. HER OTHER HAND STUFFS PULPED BODIES BACK INTO HER MOUTH.

MOTHER: "MRRF"

MOTHER: "UFF"


""THAT WAS THE MOMENT WHEN I FIRST FELT TRULY ALONE"