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Thunder RUMBLES overhead. A wild wind whips the pink blossoms into

the air.

34 EXTERIOR UNDERWATER RING POND DAY

The golden ring drifts down, tumbling in a lazy spiral.

Jack's pale form stabs through the crystal water. The distant glint

of the sinking ring lures him on.

The ring settles into the mud at the bottom, concealed by waving

weeds.

Jack searches blindly as clouds of silt billow about him.

35 EXTERIOR UNICORN DEATH ARENA DAY

The three goblins advance towards the fallen unicorn through a pink

blizzrd of wind blown blossoms.

35A EXTERIOR SKY DAY

The black clouds boil and CRASH, thunderheads mounting one upon

another in a dark maelstrom.

36 EXTERIOR UNICORN DEATH ARENA DAY

The goblins stands around the fallen unicorn. Blunder turns away as

Pox seizes the end of the alicorn, lifting it off the ground. Blix

swings an evil battle-axe high up over his head.

Jagged lightning splits the raging darkness as the black blade

falls.

Blix waves the severed alicorn in triumph.

The whirling pink petals turn instantly into white snowflakes.

37 EXTERIOR RING POND DAY

Apolcalyptic winds SCREAM through the forest. Lightning FLASHES.

The world is plunged into winter darkness.

Lili clings to a tree trunk.

LILI(in desparation): Jack! Help me!

The Princess can't maintain her grip. The icy blasts knock her to

the ground and she crawls to the cliff edge.

LILI(cont)(screaming): Jack!

The her horror, Lili sees a skin of ice form over the surface of the

pond.

LILI(cont) (sobbing): Oh, dear God.... Jack.....

no....

Fighting the raging winds, Lili stumbles to the pond and pounds on

the ice in frustration. It is no use.

LILI (cont):
....got to get help!

Frantically, Lili runs off into the storm-whipped woods.

38 EXTERIOR UNDERWATER RING POND DAY

Jack turns and looks up at the dark surface. He storkes upwards,

only to bump his head into something solid at the top. The pond is

covered by a sheet of ice!

39 EXTERIOR RING POND DAY

Jack's contorted face is seen through the ice.

He breaks the frozen surface with his fist and his gasping head

thrusts into the air.

JACK(shouting):
Lili....!

His words are lost on the wind.

40 EXTERIOR COTTAGE MEADOW DAY

Winter shrouds the tiny homestead. Immobile goats, chickens and

ducks stand silent as snow statues in the farmyard.

Lili runs from the frozen forest and stumbles up the cottage steps.

41 INTERIOR COTTAGE (FROZEN) DAY

The Princess barges in, wild-eyed and distraught.

Frost rimes the walls and furnishings. Everything glisten like sugar

candy. The Woodcarver and his wife are frozen solid.

LILI:
Nell....! Arthur....!

Lili touches the wife's gelid cheek.

LILI:
Nell....? Oh, nooooo!

Lili is shocked to discover the wife is frozen.

The Princes throws herself sobbing across the bed.

SOUNDS of SNORTING and SHOUTING come from outside

.

Lili scratches the frost off the window pane in the sleeping alcove.

42 LILI'S POV :
THROUGH WINDOW

The noisy goblins ride up on a makeshift sleigh of lashed animal

bones. They stop outside and clamber out. Blix has the alicorn

tucked under his arm.

43 INTERIOR COTTAGE DAY

Terrified, Lili runs wildly across the cottage and clims the ladder

to the loft.

43A INTERIOR COTTAGE LOFT DAY

Barrels and chests are stored here. Cured bacon and hams hang from

the rafters. Lili hides in a corner with several twig brooms and a

butter churn. She wraps herself in an old quilt snatched from an

open trunk.

Snows blows in through a hole in the roof, covering the floor

timbers. Three-inch gaps between the planks permit a view into the

cottage interior.

43B LILI'S POV :
BETWEEN PLANKS

The front door slams open and the goblins stumble laughing inside.

BLIX:
Mortal world turned to ice,

Here be goblins' paradise!

43C INTERIOR COTTAGE DAY

Blunder sinks his handaxe onto the kitchen table as he saunters past

the frozen tarts.

BLUNDER:
Lots to eat!

Pox runs forward to the cradle and seizes the frozen baby, baring

his tusks for the feast.

POX:
I s-s-simply adore m-m-milk-fed meat!

BLUNDER:
What're you....? Some kinda animal?

Horrified, Lili GASPS (OS) in the loft.

The goblins cock their ears to listen. Pox SNARLS and drops the baby

back in the cradle.

Curious, Blunder starts up the ladder to the loft, but changes his

mind half-way, more interested in what Blix is doing.

BLIX:
Why eat cold? It's better hot!

Blix points the alicorn at the frozen stewpot on the hearth. It

begins to steam and bubble, magically boiling without a fire

underneath.

POX:
Am-m-mazing! How did you d-d-d-do that, old, ch-ch-chap?

Blix is equally surprised by the alicorn's power. He CACKLES and

aims it at the clock on the mantle.

The clock's hand spin wildly around backwards, the carved figures

darting in and out at fives times their normal speed.

Blix launches on an orgy of destruction, waving the alicorn like a

magic wand. Plates shatter, the cradle rocks. furniture topples,

Toby mugs come WAILING alive, painted wooden toys dance and caper.

The goblins SHRIEK with impish joy.

43D INTERIOR LOFT (FROZEN) DAY

Lili watches the havoc through the gaps in the floor.

Blix points the alicorn straight up. Snow flies wildly around the

crouching Princess.

The broom and the butter churn begin a mad dance across the crowded

loft.

It is all the Princess can do to keep from screaming.

43E INTERIOR COTTAGE (FROZEN) DAY

As a grand finale, Blix points at Nell's frozen figure, blowing her

skirts above her waist.

POX(languidly):
M-m-most amusing Blix....most

terribly amusing.

BLUNDER:
This is sure our lucky day.

Killed that ugly one-horn dead as a cowplop

on a birthday cake!

BLIX:
Prattle, prattle like a priest!

(pointing to himself)

It was me who shoot the beast!

POX:
Without the p-p-princess for bait,

you'd never gotten close....

B-b-beauty brought the b-b-beast

to bay.

BLUNDER:
She's so sweet....I could

eat her brains like jam!

43F INTERIOR LOFT (FROZEN) DAY

Lili slumps against the wall, aghast at what she's just overheard.

43G INTERIOR COTTAGE DAY

Blunder and Pox fill a sack with frozen tarts.

POX:
I'd like such her b-b-bones!

Blix points the alicorn at the cottage door. It flies open with a

CRASH.

BLIX:
Better hurry! Can't be late!

Blix marches out of the door. The other two goblins follow, darrging

their sacks of tarts.

BLUNDER:
When we deliver that horn,

Pox ol' buddy, Darkness gonna give us a humongous big

reward.

Blunder and Pox leave, slamming the door behind them.

After a long pause, Lili creeps sobbing down the ladder from the

loft.

LILI:
Oh, God.... God....

The Princess stumbles across the cottage towards Nell.

LILI(cont) What have I done...? I didn't

want the unicorn to die.... All I did

was touch it....

Lili pleads with the frozen Wife, as if begging for her forgiveness.

She is interrupted by the gruff voice of a House BROWNIE.

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