This pretentious oddity is the result of being 14, cannabis and watching lots of Lynch.
Characters:
The Inventor: A rich, eccentric woman. She lives alone. She is brilliant.
The Destroyer: A destitute, paranoid woman. She lives alone. She is an iconoclast.
Setting:
Zion: Paradise, or hell.
Scene 1 – The Failure
Instrumental orchestral music plays throughout.
Scene opens.
The Inventor; tall, proud, gaunt, holds a flask. She stares at the dark liquid within, and with a grimace pours it into the sink. She stares forwards. Then she resumes work – surrounding her is a cornucopia of alchemical paraphernalia. Potions and steam and magic. She tinkers and fiddles.
Scene fades.
The Destroyer; small, coddled in rags and wool, her face red and smeared. She rants and raves as the men and women of the world pass her by. A finger outstretched; reaching longingly into the sky, quivering, aiming at the House On Mount Zion.
Scene 2 – The Success
Scene opens.
The Inventor; tall, proud, gaunt, holds a flask. The liquid within stares at her. Sparkling and pure. Magic and wind pour from the windows, the very embers of the House stretch at the wonder she has created. Joy abounds. She smiles and raises the Phial as light overwhelms her.
Scene fades.
The Destroyer; small, coddled in rags and wool, her face red and smeared. Her screams and curses, gesticulations of fury, now attract a crowd. They stare uncertain and worried. The House On The Hill is screaming. The Destroyer yells and points; finger stretched like a dagger.
Scene 3 – The Fall
Scene opens.
The Inventor; tall, proud, gaunt, holds a flask. The flask holds her. The House breathes and swells, rejoicing at what has occurred. Energy pours forth, the world outside strains. The Inventor dissimilates, her very being and essence disintegrating into the House.
Scene fades.
The Destroyer; small, coddled in rags and wool, her face red and smeared. Chants and incantations rumble forth from her small body. The crowd around her is overwhelming and fearful. They yell in unison with her. The House On Mount Zion screams. The world screams.
The music ceases.
And lo, she proclaims! “HE HAS LEFT US ALONE! HE HAS CURSED US! SHARDS OF LIGHT NO LONGER FALL! WE MUST DESTROY THE WITCH!”
The music resumes.
Scene 4 – The Original Sin
The Inventor; she was tall, proud, gaunt and held a flask. Now she swirls in brilliant dust that proceeds to dissimilate all around it. Wood and stone and glass becoming scintillating particles. Her Gift has been unleashed.
Scene fades.
The music reaches a crescendo.
The Destroyer; large, adorned in the strength of faith and fury, her face bright and clear. She leads Her Army as they ascend Mount Zion. Dozens of them fade away, slipping through air into the swarm of dust that spirals forth from the House. The angriest, most violent, most fearful, most sinful remain. They march on what was the House, into bright oblivion. Her screams and rage carry on for eternity, raging against all of time.
Scene fades.
The music ceases.
Scene opens.
A new world is born. A man and a woman of our own species stand uncertain in a brilliant garden.
End.