Queen of the Damned Page #21

everything else.

Lestat looks straight at Akasha, his face flushed. His

eyes are empty of everything except her blood.

AKASHA:

What's your answer?

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108.

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Lestat looks at her and then smiles. Akasha's mouth

spreads into a smile. Flashes of brilliant light strobeover them as Lestat moves to her, sucks again. There's a

powerful rush of WIND that engulfs them as they spintogether, detached from time and space.

181 FLASH CUTS - STOCK FOOTAGE 181

All INTERCUT WITH Akasha's skin, her body taut and arching.

Lestat falls back in ecstasy. He shakes out his body andlets out a howl of pleasure -- feels his arms, his chest,

his groin as Akasha's blood courses through his veins.

Akasha watches and waits. Finally Lestat grins boyishlythrough bloody teeth and wipes his lips with the back ofhis hand.

LESTAT:

Can we try that again?

Akasha smiles at him, then laughs a strange laugh, akind of purr/growl. Lestat gazes at her as the sensualhissing seems to surround him. It is seductive and

scary. Lestat steps up, puts a finger to her lips.

LESTAT:

Show me the world...

Akasha's mouth spreads into a smile and she yanks him upinto the air and off into the night.

182 INT. MAHARET DESERT MANSION - NIGHT 182

Mael leads Jesse down the hall. She stares ahead at what

looks like statues standing in the shadows. Her eyeswiden as the statues come to life: Armand, Pandora,

Khayman, Marius are talking in hushed tones, gatheredbefore Maharet's "Great Family Tree." CAMERA SWEEPS

OVER the endless lines, the rows of names that stretch

down the stone wall -- ACROSS the floor, filling roomafter room. The Ancients all stare, deeply moved.

Maharet turns to them.

MAHARET:

We see now what Akasha means to

do. Rule as Queen again.

(pointing to thegreat family)

This is why we must fight Akasha!

Maharet looks around, determined, challenging each of theimmortals.

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109.

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MAHARET:

For the sake of all mortals. She

must be stopped, or the mortalworld will end.

The Ancients fall silent as they take this in. They gazeagain at Maharet's Great Family, humbled for a moment byher life's passion.

MAEL:

But is there a way? We don't

know.

KHAYMAN:

When she opens herself to give herblood, she is vulnerable.

MARIUS:

Then we weaken her. Drain her of

almost all her blood, but leave

her just one drop.

MAHARET:

We can't take that chance. We

must finish her.

ARMAND:

If she dies, we all die.

PANDORA:

We're damned no matter what

happens.

MAHARET:

Perhaps.

Maharet gazes at them, her mind working... Pandora,

Khayman, Mael gaze at each other, still uncertain.

JESSE:

And what about Lestat?

MAHARET:

Lestat has joined with Akasha. He

is lost to us now. He is never

coming back.

JESSE:

I don't believe that.

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183 LESTAT 183

Beaming with a possessed look, his eyes brimming withvisions.

Lestat opens his eyes and sees an island approaching.

the distance lights sparkle as an enormous plantationvilla is revealed, nestled into the far shore.

In

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184 EXT. AKASHA'S PLANTATION VILLA - NIGHT 184

Lestat and Akasha stand on a cliff-top. WIND ripsthrough the trees. Everywhere, there are torches, and amillion candles light the vast house. Lestat and Akasha

glide past the forest of exotic flowers... Past thefountains and statues -- up the steps to the open Frenchdoors. Long white curtains billow in the sea wind.

LESTAT:

Where are we?

AKASHA:

We are home.

LESTAT:

You live here?

AKASHA:

We live everywhere and anywhere wechoose. The world is our garden.

185 INT. AKASHA'S PLANTATION VILLA - NIGHT 185

Lestat steps in through billowing curtains, stops...

There are three West Indian girls, young, voluptuous,

beautiful, dressed in simple working clothes andtraditional head-wraps. They stare at Lestat, nervous,

yet fascinated. They move towards him. Lestat finds

himself surrounded by hands, touching him, reachingbeneath his shirt, pulling his clothes from his body. He

swoons, closes his eyes, smiles.

LESTAT:

So warm...

(sniffs their skin)

... their blood...

AKASHA:

... yes...

LESTAT:

... they're mortal...

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AKASHA:

... of course. They serve theliving goddess, and her consort.

They find you beautiful. You are

a god in their eyes.

DISSOLVE TO:

186 SERIES OF SHOTS 186

... golden dark hands pull clothes away from Lestat'swhite skin... breasts strain through white linen as theypress themselves closer to him... the surface of water,

scented with red rose petals. Lestat's white skin breaks

the surface. Lestat is lowered into the bath, his skin

alive with the dancing candles reflected in the water...

the water laps gently -- strange sighs of pleasure asgirls' hands caress Lestat's torso... their hands reachdown lower and lower through the water... Lestat's eyesremain closed but his mouth opens... Now it's Akashakissing him. Lestat responds, but his eyes sneak a peek.

Akasha smiles -- takes his head in her hands -- she

kisses him, pushes him back -- he tries to resist -- hecan't, startled by her strength... Akasha kisses hisneck, his chest, bites... Lestat arches in ecstasy...

Akasha rises up from his breast, blood on her lips,

smiles, goes back down and drinks.

DISSOLVE TO:

187 AKASHA AND LESTAT - LATER 187

now moved to the bed, surrounded by the fine nets...

kissing, probing each other's bodies, floating above thebed... Akasha rolls him over -- smiles down at him -- a

fang exposed... She draws her wrist across her mouth... aglobule of blood smacks Lestat's open lips... Flash -A

thousand images in a second. Lestat jolted as if by amillion volts. Blood smears their bodies -- they bathein it.

188 CLOSE ON LESTAT 188

The most lascivious smile spreading over his face, evenas the waves of pleasure still course through him,

causing his mouth to twitch and tremble. He closes his

eyes...

FADE TO BLACK.

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FADE IN:

189 SAME SCENE - LESTAT (LATER) 189

opens his eyes. He sits up alone in the canopied bed,

disoriented. Akasha is nowhere to be seen. He looks

toward the window. The sun is just about to disappearbelow the horizon. Lestat stares, amazed, blinking...

Shielding his eyes, Lestat goes to window, gazes in aweat the setting sun. As the last rays slice through thesky, Lestat closes his eyes, stretches his arms out, feelsthe warm sun on his skin. He smiles at this feeling he'scraved for so long. Still smiling, he opens his eyes,

blinking from the light. He turns, gazes towards thebath and gasps. The dying light illuminates... Theservant girls' bodies, now grey with death, lying aroundthe edge of the bath. The roses are now black and the

water is colored a rich deep red...

190 INT. PLANTATION HOUSE - HALLWAY 190

Lestat steps into the hallway, stares at dead bodiessprinkling the ground -- both servants formally dressed,

and guests in white tropical evening dress...

191 INT. PLANTATION HOUSE - DINING HALL - CONTINUOUS ACTION 191

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