Jug Face Page #2

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Eilen?!

Oh! No!

[RETCHING]

[NO SOUND]

[HORN BLOWS]

Dawai said nothing?

Not to me.

Hey...

You're down there all the time.

You seen him making one?

No.

Just his normal stuff.

I ain't make no jug face.

I swear.

The pit ain't spoken to you at all?

No.

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

Have all the families

meet at the house at dark.

[CRYING]

I'm sure you all now know

that Eilen Jenkin was

... was taken today.

Where's the jug face?

Dawai, do you swear that the pit did not

guide your hand to make a new jug face?

[CLEARS THROAT]

Well, when it does, I don't

know that it did or not.

I just wake up feeling funny.

And I did feel funny yesterday.

But I didn't fire nothing.

All right, now

- now Dawai is gonna search his place again,

and if he does not find a

jug face, well, then, we wait.

We wait until the pit guides

its hand to make another.

My daughter's gonna roam

these woods, shunned forever.

Who knows how many others will

be taken 'cause of this idiot?

Be taken 'cause of this idiot?

Where are you?!

[PANTING]

[GULPING LOUDLY]

Hooo!

Tell me where it is!

Please! I'm begging you!

Just tell me where it is!

I'm gonna do it.

I'm gonna do it!

I swear I'll do it if you don't tell me.

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

What?

It's me.

[INSECTS CHIRPING]

All right!

Come to check on you.

I want to be alone.

Thought you hated 'shine.

[SIGHS]

I do.

You found it yet?

It's got to be around

here somewhere, right?

Don't!

[RADIO PLAYS IN BACKGROUND]

I might have left my knife in there.

Let me do something with this.

What is that?

What?

It's a...

Never noticed it before.

I didn't... I didn't

really want you to see that.

Thought we swore we'd

never have secrets.

Yeah, right, we didn't, but

I ... please, don't!

Please!

When did you make this?

[SIGHS]

Couple weeks back.

I ain't told nobody 'cause ain't

nobody got a baby right now.

You think it means something?

I don't really know.

You think that's what the pit wants?

There ain't no baby, so how could it?

Right.

That's... That's what I come to.

Makes my head hurt.

[SIGHS]

[CHIRPING CONTINUES]

If I were you, I'd think on

it real hard, and maybe you'll

see the face again that it showed you.

What if a face I see

ain't the right one?

Never been wrong before, have you?

[DOOR OPENS]

Come in here.

[PEOPLE TALKING ON TELEVISION]

Where you been?

I was out, walking.

Where's pa?

He's over at the Jenkins'.

I don't think you'd be too scared

out there in them woods yourself.

Must have been an awful sight.

It was.

I'm gonna go to bed.

I ain't done with you.

What?

Go in the bathroom.

No!

Go.

[SIGHS]

Go!

I want to see.

See what?

I want to see if you've been fooling

around, before you shame all of us.

Now drop your drawers.

I'm fine.

I swear!

Get them off and sit your butt down.

Go on. Open up.

Open up.

Mm-hmm.

Do you want me to burn you?

[WHIMPERS]

All righty.

[SCREAMS]

Stop!

[CRIES]

Now you do as I say.

I ain't kidding around here!

[WHIMPERS]

Further!

You little slut.

No, I'm not. I'm not.

I swear!

Who is it?

It ain't nobody!

I swear!

I swear it ain't nobody!

Get on the floor!

Aah!

Mama, please!

Give me your hand.

Please, no, no, mama!

No-o-o-o!

Aah!

Now tell me who it is!

I was just playing with myself.

I swear! I swear!

I swear!

I swear on the pit!

I swear on the pit!

I promise! I promise!

It ain't Dawai?

No!

[PANTING]

[CRIES]

Well, I hope you're right.

I surely do.

Clean yourself up.

[DOOR CLOSES]

[CRYING]

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

Hey, darlin'?

[CRYING] what?

Come on. Roll over.

[SNIFFLES]

She tell you?

She did.

I believe you.

Oh, let me see your hand.

She shouldn't have done that.

You know, this is all gonna

be over, and you're gonna be on

your way to a happy life with Bodey.

What's wrong with her?

Nothing. She's fine.

Don't worry. You're safe.

Don't even try to hold this over me.

There is one thing, though.

Go to sleep.

I'm pregnant.

And I know it's true, 'cause I

got one of them tests from town.

[WHEEL RUMBLES]

Let it be known.

No!

He's all we got!

Sustin, please.

The pit has spoken.

It is an honor to be chosen to

be with it in this world... you

know that... for without the

blood, the waters of the

pit would heal no one.

And so, we do what we must.

Bodey...

Go on, son.

Bodey Jenkin...

Today, you will pass

from this world into its.

Do you give yourself to it?

Yes.

[CRYING] Mama...

[CRYING] It's okay, baby.

It's okay.

[CRYING]

[GAGGING]

Go now with your hearts

beating strong and know

that our pact continues.

[PANTING]

Grandpa!

How long you been like this?

[MUMBLES]

Are you finished?

One... Two... Three.

Put your hand up.

Watch your head.

[GROANS]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[SIGHS]

[CHIRPING INTENSIFIES]

[PANTING]

No! What do you want?!

Do you know what I am?

You're one of the shunned.

Then, you know you must stop.

I don't know what you're talking about.

No! Please don't hurt him!

Plea...

It is he who hurt me.

He hid a jug face, same as you.

I forgave, but...

they did not.

They won't forgive you, either.

They did this to coops?

Poison.

Whose jug face was it?

His wife's.

What if I don't want to die, though?

I have a baby inside me.

You must.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[RECORD SCRATCHES]

[DOOR OPENS]

Who's there?

[COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYS]

everybody wants to make...

you sure are drinking a lot

for someone who don't

have a taste for it.

[SNIFFS]

I don't know what I had against

it's treating me...

treating me just fine.

You want a sip?

I need to talk to you.

But you ain't up for it, I'm thinking.

Everything's all right.

It turned out just fine, didn't

Yeah.

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

Ada? Ada?!

What's wrong?

Is pa inside?

I don't know.

Can I see?

[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]

Pa, I need to talk with you.

It'll have to wait.

I got to see the Corber.

I'm sick.

What?

How long?

A week, maybe.

[PANTING]

you think the pit will heal me?

If we ask it, it will.

What if it's too soon?

That ain't how it works.

It could still be mad.

It ain't.

We give it a life when it wants

it, and it heals us when we need

it's been like that since

we first survived the pox.

Now come on.

We'll be back.

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

Strip down...

All the way.

It's gonna work, right?

Don't be scared.

We got to trust in it.

Sit down low.

Get it all over you.

We...

We come to ask for help.

My boy Jessaby is sick, and we

ask that you heal him so

he can serve you better.

Dawai!

Help.

Aah!

And we thank you for all the years you

kept us well, and we pray to be chosen.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

Stand.

[WATER GURGLING]

I think I feel it.

Pa!

Come on up here.

Come on.

Aah!

Aah!

Aah!

No.

Ah!

Ada?

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

You out here?

I thought I heard you.

Ada?

Ada?!

[HORN BLOWS]

Ada.

[CRYING]

hey.

Huh?

You all right?

Jessaby's been taken.

It's all my fault.

Loriss?!

Loriss?!

What?

[CRYING]

What's happening?

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