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	EXT. SPACE - EARTH - TORONTO - SUBURB - HILLSIDE PARK - DAY Template:Highlight... CELESTE wraps up singing her 'Cosmic Rhyme' song as our cosmic zoom view arrives at Earth, descending across North America towards the Greater Toronto area, where it's like any other day, nearly identical to present day, yet the year is about 2050, give or take five or six years. The camera descends through clouds, into a suburb of Toronto, past surveillance drones, swoops under a railway bridge over a small creek, to a river-side city park, traces along a paved pedestrian exercise path, where a man walks as his daughter circles him on her BICYCLE. The aerial drone camera angled downward circles around them slowly, from a distance, gradually getting closer, yet we never quite see his face. Template:Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Celeste CELESTE's 'Cosmic Rhyme' song concludes. Near the end or after her song, soundtrack music may be introduced (without dissonance) to set the mood. Template:Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Ernest Good. What does all of that mean? Sounds like science fiction at the end. Template:Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Celeste I don't know yet. We just started this term. I can learn anything in songs. HOPE says I'll get it when I'm older. Template:Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Ernest They tell everybody that - about everything. Template:Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Celeste Who are 'they'? Template:Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Ernest Who knows. Folks who know? Template:Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Celeste HOPE knows. Template:Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Ernest Maybe. Template:Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Celeste CELESTE stops on her BIKE and points off the path. Template:Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Ernest ERNEST then pushes her and her BIKE, off the path over steeper grass, like Sisyphus pushed a boulder up hill. Until he can't. Template:Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Celeste CELESTE, like a robot: In-ject na-no oxy-gen. Template:Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Ernest ERNEST, like a robot: Hey. That's my line. ERNEST wears a stylish JACKET of unique textiles with many practical features. From his top left pocket he pulls out a few PENS and puts all but one back. He taps his forearm sleeve screen a few times then pushes it up to inject himself with the oxygen PEN, then double taps a little device on his antique watch's strap. He checks the PEN and puts it back in his JACKET pocket. They abandon the BIKE and ERNEST lifts little CELESTE, his world, like Atlas, up onto his shoulders and continues to hike up the hill without fatigue. Template:Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Ernest Soon I won't be able to do this with you anymore. Template:Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Celeste We're climbing the mountain! Template:Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Ernest You mean I am climbing - with a monkey on my back. Template:Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Celeste Monkeys can't yodel like I can. HOPE play my yodel song. Template:Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: vHOPE In a very old-fashioned computerized androgynous voice.... Bleep blorp. From nowhere, Frank Ifield's "She Taught Me How To Yodel" plays and they sing along. Keen observers may later see his smart-JACKET has embedded audio speaker panels. The camera follows them as they approach and walk under the leafy branches of a majestic hilltop hardwood TREE overlooking a bucolic vista. Template:Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Ernest ERNEST points to an abandoned BAG leaned against the TREE, the camera swings close around to finally see a medium two-shot of CELESTE on ERNEST's shoulders and a clear view of their faces. ERNEST gestures downhill,... Do you see who's BAG that is?		Foreshadowing A keen reader may notice upon second reading, unknown to the characters much of the dialogue is predictive and/or foreshadowing, especially in Act 1A. Many of these are inversed and opposite for a variety of reasons, such as irony, sarcasm, to indicate error or ignorance, or to mislead via character or narrative, etc. (eg. "We're all gonna be fine." - then they all die. Or vice versa.) Setting The train tracks, bridge, and stream/river set themes while foreshadowing later events. Celeste's absent character arch : Template:Highlight round I have yet to come up with a character arch for their daughter, defaulting to a passive bland child. Celine's absent character arch : Template:Highlight round While I have some stuff for Celine's arch, it's not enough, nor with a grander purpose. I don't simply want another bland supportive wife character. Suggestions welcome. Template:Bittersweet Seeds: Scenes: Images & Notes placeholder
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