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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC RISES)

(IN NATivE LANGUAGE) Ave.

Tell me a story.

Not now, Heron.

Please.

I'm not your mother.

Tell my son a story.

I can tell you about where we're going?

Your father's going to find us food and shelter.

There will be herds of animals

to hunt, warm caves to live in.

ODAL: Heron's a boy.

He needs to hear about conflict. Struggle.

What do you know about struggle?

ODAL: Heron

would you like to hear my story?

It begins with a people that moved with the seasons.

In summer they arrived at their hunting grounds

but the herds did not.

Facing starvation, they decided to return south

but a headstrong young man had other ideas.

He wanted to head west

to a land of his childhood stories.

There would be a test to reach this land.

Ajourney across a great sea.

But the reward would be bounty unknown.

A place teeming with animals to hunt.

With fertile valleys

and immense mountains filled with warm caves.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

The elders laughed at the idea.

So our hero

his heir

his mate

- (BLOWS AIR) - his younger brother

a brave advisor

and a stray

took to the sea.

They battled waves as high as mountains.

The storm stole their provisions.

Butjust as all hope was gone

the sea calmed

and the promised land appeared.

(SOFT MUSIC CONTINUES)

(YELLS)

ODAL: Our hero had delivered their salvation.

A place where their children would flourish

(BREATHING HEAvlLY)

and the elders could find peace.

Their own paradise.

GEIRR: Beyah!

- (BEYAH EXCLAIMING HAPPILY) - We made it!

(ALL LAUGHING)

HERON: You're squashing me!

(LAUGHING ECHOES)

But it was cursed.

The earth was barren.

(WIND HOWLING)

Exposed to incessant wind...

Careful, Odal.

ODAL: You haven't found us food or shelter, Adem.

And you don't know what's out there.

Whatever's out there, I can handle it.

HERON: What is out there, Odal?

Cold.

Starvation.

Demons more powerful than your father.

Evil, bloodthirsty things.

This isn't the happy place of his childhood stories.

This land is old

and dark.

Then I am the light.

(ODAL CHUCKLES)

The danger in bringing light to a dark place

is that you might find out what lives in the darkness.

(LEAvES RUSTLING)

(SCREAMS)

(LAUGHING)

ADEM: Enough!

There are no demons.

Ifwe'd stayed where we were

you'd all be dead.

But here, you have a chance.

Because of me.

(RUSTLING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

GEIRR: Don't eat that.

BEYAH: I'm so hungry.

I know.

Maybe we'll have to eat Odal.

(BOTH LAUGHING)

HERON: Kill it! Kill it!

Kill it!

Kill it!

GEIRR: Don't worry about him.

BEYAH: I'm not. He'll eat first.

Strays eat last.

You're not a stray anymore.

You're with us

and I'll look after you.

(HERON GRUNTING)

Heron!

We're setting out.

You'll see.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

Is that where we're going?

GEIRR: Yes, Heron.

The foothills will be full of caves.

ADEM: In three days

we'll be safe and warm in a new home

and all ofthis will belong to us.

I promise you.

Let's go.

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(WHISTLES)

(SNIFFS)

(WATER TRICKLING)

(SLOW SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

GEIRR: Did it fall over the edge?

ADEM: It was forced.

There's nothing left of it.

Don't tell the others.

Why?

It means there's prey.

Because I don't know what did this.

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

We need to get back to them.

(STONES CLACKING)

We're too exposed.

Adem, we're too exposed.

- It's a good vantage point. - (ODAL SCOFFS)

For what?

There's fuck all here.

This is why the elders wouldn't take you south.

I took pity on you.

You need me.

Do I?

Ave is as good at foraging as you.

And ifAve dies?

That's why I'm here, isn't it?

You don't do anything out of pity.

This is a good thing for you.

(BREATHING HEAvlLY)

If my baby is a boy, I won't worry.

But if it's a girl

she'll have to earn her place.

(CONTINUES BREATHING HEAvlLY)

You're important to him now.

I'm just trying to let you know

you have a purpose now.

Purpose?

It's a good thing.

It's a good thing.

(SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS)

(TWIG SNAPS)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(LAUGHING)

(WIND HOWLING)

(BREATHING HEAvlLY)

HERON: Dad!

ADEM: Heron!

Heron!

- (TWIG SNAPS) - (BREATHING HEAvlLY)

(WIND HOWLING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(TWIGS SNAPPING)

HERON: Got you!

Are you stupid?

Don't wander off!

Do you understand? Do you understand?

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(BREATHING HEAvlLY)

GEIRR: Ave.

Geirr.

They can rest, we hunt.

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

ADEM: We'll go around.

Are you sure?

I'm not taking them through a forest.

We stay in the open.

But that will add days.

We'll go around.

Won't it be too hard for the others?

They'll be fine once they've eaten. Come on.

- (BIRDS CHIRPING) - (LEAvES RUSTLING)

(AvE CRYING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(AvE CONTINUES CRYING)

ODAL: She must eat, Adem.

(ODAL PRAYING)

Kill it! Kill it!

(SOBBING)

HERON: Kill it! Kill it!

Stop!

ADEM: Keep watch.

(RUSTLING)

- (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS) - (BEYAH GASPS)

My girl

don't stray too far from the fire.

(FIRE CRACKLING)

It's getting cold.

We've got no food.

ADEM: Ave is so tired.

My baby may not survive this journey.

I can accept that because I have Heron.

And you.

(BEYAH WHIMPERS)

You're for whatever I need.

(LEAvES CRUNCHING)

(CREATURE SCREECHING)

GEIRR: What was that?

What was that?

AvE: Adem, what was... ADEM: Shut up!

(SCREECHING CONTINUES)

(LEAvES RUSTLING)

(FOOTSTEPS RUNNING)

(LEAvES RUSTLING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(TWIG SNAPPING)

(HERON GRUNTS)

Heron?

(OMINOUS MUSIC RISES)

Heron!

- Heron! - GEIRR: Heron!

AvE: Heron!

- What took him? - GEIRR: Come back!

AvE: Can you hear me?

What did you see?

(AvE SHOUTS IN NATivE LANGUAGE)

You can't track him now!

Wait until light.

He's my son.

AvE: No!

GEIRR: Adem, stop!

You watch them.

GEIRR: We can't split up!

(AvE CONTINUES SHOUTING)

I can't do this on my own!

(BOTH GRUNTING)

If something happens to you!

Think about Ave!

(ADEM YELLING)

Your baby will die!

(SCREAMS)

We'll all die.

(ADEM SCREAMS)

It's time.

Beyah.

I'm not going with him.

We have no choice.

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(PANTING)

(SNIFFS)

What is it?

I don't know. But it's not blood.

Heron's alive.

(OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES)

Heron!

Heron!

Adem

we can't.

ADEM: He's in there.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

GEIRR: Adem!

Think!

Adem!

Adem!

It's getting dark.

What if he's already dead?

Then it's your fault!

I told you to keep watch.

Keep moving.

I need rest.

Stay with her.

No! She's on heat.

That's what brought it to us.

Then keep up.

He's going to get us all killed.

I'm sorry.

(LEAvES RUSTLING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

GEIRR: Adem!

Adem!

(YELPS)

(BREATHING HEAvlLY)

(FLIES BUzzlNG)

(CREATURE ROARING)

AvE: Adem.

ODAL: Adem, your son is dead.

(LEAvES CRUNCHING)

(SCREECHING)

(HIGH-PITCHED SHRIEKING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

Run.

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

Come on!

(SCREAMING CONTINUES)

(HIGH-PITCHED SHRIEKING)

Why have you stopped?

Light a fire.

Are you mad?

We light a fire or we die in the dark.

(STONES CLACKING)

You've killed us.

You've killed us!

(STONES CONTINUE CLACKING)

(BREATHING HEAvlLY)

(SCREECHING)

GEIRR: Hurry, Beyah!

(STONES CONTINUE CLACKING)

(HEAvY BREATHING)

(FIRE CRACKLING)

(ROARING IN DISTANCE)

(RUSTLING)

(TWIG SNAPPING, RUSTLING)

- We've been trapped. - (SLAPS)

Adem! (WHIMPERS)

(TWIG SNAPS)

(RUSTLING)

(TWIGS SNAPPING)

- (SCREECHING) - (SPEAR CLATTERS)

- (FOOTSTEPS RUNNING) - (SCREECHING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(TWIG SNAPS)

(LEAvES RUSTLING)

(LEAvES RUSTLING)

(FOOTSTEPS RUNNING)

(TWIG SNAPS)

(FOOTSTEPS RUNNING)

(ADEM BREATHING HEAvlLY)

(LEAvES CRUNCHING)

(GROWLING)

(ADEM SCREAMS)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(ADEM SCREAMS)

ADEM: Geirr!

(ADEM SCREAMING)

ADEM: Geirr!

(ADEM CONTINUES SCREAMING)

(WHIMPERS)

We're all going to die!

(SHUDDERING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES)

GEIRR: Adem!

(TWIG SNAPS)

(FOOTSTEPS)

(RUSTLING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(ADEM GASPING SOFTLY)

(WHEEzlNG)

Do something.

We can't save him. Do something.

You have to do it.

I can't.

(OMINOUS MUSIC RISES)

(FLESH SQUELCHING)

(ADEM EXHALES SLOWLY)

We should never have come here.

We need to hide.

We can't hide.

It will find us.

We have to stay awake and...

And?

Fight?

Like your brother?

We have to do something!

What's wrong?

What's wrong?

Ave!

Help her!

If she doesn't eat

she'll die.

We've got something to eat now.

No.

It's what he'd want.

It's for his child.

We don't eat our own.

We're not monsters.

Do you want to survive?

(GEIRR SIGHS)

BEYAH: Take it.

Then look away.

(FLESH TEARING)

(RETCHING)

(BLADE SLICING)

(COUGHS)

(SOFT DESPONDENT MUSIC PLAYING)

(LOUD CHEWING)

Why doesn't itjust kill us?

ODAL: We trespassed. It's punishing us.

It's going to eat us.

It didn't eat Adem.

No.

You did.

ODAL: We have to appease it.

You can't appease an animal.

It's a demon!

Are you insane?

He's right.

It's a monster.

So we have to offer it something.

GEIRR: No.

We have to hunt it down.

BEYAH: Geirr, you can't hunt this thing.

Adem tried

and now he's gone.

We need shelter.

(FLIES BUzzlNG)

ODAL: Move.

To die somewhere else?

You can't escape a demon.

I want to leave.

I'll lead us to the mountains and we'll find a home.

No one's going to follow you, boy.

What are you looking at her for?

Get us out of here.

Move.

(SLOW DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(AvE BREATHING HEAvlLY)

(FLIES BUzzlNG)

GEIRR: I can get us out of here.

No you can't.

ODAL: Enough ofthis!

You've had your chance.

Now we do it my way.

I am wisdom.

Ave carries life.

Geirr is our spear.

But a stray?

You're for whatever we need.

When did it first appear?

When you started to bleed.

It can smell you.

I can smell you.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS)

BEYAH: Get off me!

(SCREAMS)

GEIRR: Don't!

Geirr!

(BEYAH CONTINUES SCREAMING)

Get off me!

ODAL: Demon!

AvE: Grab her!

(BEYAH CONTINUES SCREAMING)

ODAL: Demon!

BEYAH: Get off me!

Please!

ODAL: Demon!

(BEYAH CONTINUES SCREAMING IN THE DISTANCE)

Why are you helping him?

Because he's right.

He's crazy!

I won't lose another baby.

(SCREAMS)

(CREATURE SCREECHES)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

- (ODAL GRUNTS) - (YELPS)

(HIGH-PITCHED SHRIEKING)

(FOOTSTEPS RUNNING)

(HIGH-PITCHED SHRIEKING)

(TWIG SNAPS)

(TWIGS SNAPPING)

- (STABS) - (AvE GRUNTS)

Take her.

Take her!

Take her.

- (BONE SNAPS) - (ODAL GROANS)

(SCREAMS IN PAIN)

(WIND BLOWING)

(ODAL CONTINUES SCREAMING IN DISTANCE)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(ODAL CONTINUES SCREAMING IN DISTANCE)

(STRAINED BREATHING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(HIGH-PITCHED SHRIEKING)

(RUSTLING, LEAvES CRUNCHING)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

(RUSTLING)

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(SHUDDERING)

(FLIES BUzzlNG)

(GRUNTS)

(ODAL GROANING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS)

- (TWIGS SNAPPING) - (ODAL WHIMPERS)

(SOFT GROWLING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(GASPS)

(ODAL SHUDDERING)

(EXHALES SLOWLY)

- (WHISTLING) - (ROARING)

(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES)

- (RUSTLING) - (SOFT GROWLING)

(BEYAH SCREAMS)

(CRACKING)

- (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) - (SHUDDERS)

(SCREAMS)

Come on!

GEIRR: Beyah, stop!

BEYAH: It will lead us out!

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(BEYAH SHOUTS IN NATivE LANGUAGE)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

Geirr!

Come on!

Stop it!

It's over!

I've got the trail.

It's like us.

No.

It's not.

I saw it take Ave's body.

Why?

Because it's a monster.

I want to go back.

There's nowhere to go back to.

Geirr.

We won't survive out here.

Ifthat thing has shelter we need to take it.

What if there are more?

Then they'd have killed us already.

It's been trying to scare us away.

Beyah.

Why aren't you scared?

I am scared.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

But I want to live.

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

(SLOW SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

It's a trap.

We have no choice.

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)

(WATER DRIPPING)

(SOFT OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(STONES CLATTERING)

(BEYAH BREATHING HEAvlLY)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

(LIGHTNING CRASHING)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

(LIGHTNING CRASHING)

(FOOTSTEPS)

(INHALES NERvOUSLY)

(STONES CLATTERING)

(SHUDDERING)

(RUSTLING)

(GROWLING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(BOTH GRUNTING)

- (BONES SNAPPING) - (BEYAH SCREAMS)

Geirr!

(GROWLING)

(BEYAH GRUNTS)

(BOTH COUGHING)

(MAN CHOKING)

(MAN GRUNTS)

(FLESH TEARING)

(COUGHS)

(THUNDER RUMBLING FAINTLY)

(MAN GROANING)

(RUSTLING)

(MAN GROANING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(MAN GROANS)

- (FLESH SQUELCHES) - (MAN GROANS)

Where's my Dad?

Beyah, stop!

(SCREAMS)

(SCREAMING ECHOES)

BEYAH: Geirr!

BEYAH: Come on!

Heron!

(COUGHING)

Faster Heron!

(GRUNTING)

Come on!

(BOTH COUGHING)

(SPEAKING IN NATivE LANGUAGE)

Heron!

Heron!

Help, Beyah!

Help!

(WOMAN CONTINUES SPEAKING)

(WOMAN GROANS)

- (SCREAMS) - (STONE THUDS)

(SNIFFLES)

What have you done?

It was them or us.

Monster! Monster!

Stop, Heron!

HERON: We were starving.

They fed me!

They wanted to save me!

Monster!

Enough!

Dad!

Dad!

He's dead!

They're all dead!

(HERON CRYING)

Those things killed them.

They weren't things

they were like us.

(SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

HERON: Beyah, tell me a story.

It began with a stray

looking for a home.

She journeyed into a land of monsters.

Corrupted by fear and rage...

she killed the monsters and took their cave.

Only then did she see how they had lived.

BEYAH: Ave?

HERON: They brought her here to honour her

and her baby.

How they had stolen a boy

because they wanted to save him.

How they had cared for others.

She saw how they had been threatened and afraid.

She saw they were people just like her.

The stray realised she had found a home

and she had destroyed it.

(SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES)

(HERON CRYING)

In time the stray and the boy learned to survive.

The first of a new people.

HERON: What do we do now?

We try again.

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)