40.
JESSICA
(hand signal, subtitled)
Not now.Jessica speaks sternly, her body preparing for action:
JESSICA (CONT'D)
If you mean to harm me, I warn you:
whatever you’re hiding won’t be
enough.The Shadout Mapes’s eyes rise to meet Jessica’s, awed.
SHADOUT MAPES
The weapon is meant as a gift,
if you are truly the One.Slowly she reaches into her dress. Pulls out a knife and
draws it from its sheath -- revealing a milk-white blade,
slightly translucent. Wickedly sharp. It’s beautiful.
SHADOUT MAPES (CONT'D)
Do you know this?Jessica gazes at it in wonder. This is a mythical object.
JESSICA
It’s a crysknife.SHADOUT MAPES
Do you know its meaning?Jessica feels her way forward carefully, sensing the
significance of the moment.
JESSICA
(hand signal to the
guards, subtitled)
Be ready for violence.The guard is on edge, ready to draw his sword.
JESSICA (CONT'D)
It’s a maker of...Mapes WAILS in ecstasy. Jessica trails off, startled.
SHADOUT MAPES
A Maker of the Deep Desert!
Sayyadina! When one has lived with
prophecy for so long, the moment of
revelation is a shock. Sayyadina.
Lisan al-Gaib. The Mother and the
Son!