We Contain Multitudes
Younng Playwrights National Programme 2023
Younng Playwrights National Programme 2023
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HESPER<br />
Oh yeah, his offer! Enrolling in this school? Learning magic? That sounds<br />
awesome! You could, like, show me around, right?<br />
ATLAS<br />
(Turns away and try to hide a smile) No. Absolutely not.<br />
Cut to ATLAS showing HESPER around the school. HESPER is looking about<br />
enthusiastically like a kid in a sweetshop, while ATLAS is trying to seem<br />
disinterested.<br />
ATLAS<br />
So this is the observatory, for looking at stars and faraway things and shit.<br />
Barely anyone uses it, but it's been around for hundreds of years. r > m pretty<br />
sure this is where people first discovered that stars are just distant suns. You<br />
can also see the Rift from here with the telescope, if the weather is good.<br />
Oooh!<br />
HESPER<br />
Hesper goes over to a large telescope apparatus and looks through it, trying to angle<br />
it west.<br />
ATLAS<br />
Don't look straight at it! You'll get a headache!<br />
HESPER<br />
How do you know? Have you been there?<br />
ATLAS<br />
Hell no, I've just tried looking at it with the telescope.<br />
Ooooh! Do you come here a lot?<br />
Hmph. Sometimes.<br />
Cool! Do you bring your friends?<br />
I... um ... I don't have ...<br />
HESPER<br />
ATLAS<br />
HESPER<br />
ATLAS:<br />
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