(no subject)

[zinze]

CERA

Littlefoot! Come on! You can’t sleep all day!

LITTLEFOOT

Why not? We’re going to be hit by an asteroid, all our specieses will go extinct, and our bones will be forgotten.

 

CERA

Riiight. World’s most depressing psychic. Gotcha. Now can we go run around?

 

LITTLEFOOT
Why?

 

CERA
How else are we gonna find an adventure? You think it’s gonna come shake you awake? Well, only if I’m adventure. And this is the call to me. ‘Littlefoot! Stretch that long neck and come find me!’

 

LITTLEFOOT

(opening eyes) Found you.

 

CERA
(poising to run) Not for long. Come on.

 

LITTLEFOOT
(closing eyes again) That sounds like a lot of effort.

 

CERA
Are you serious.

 

(LITTLEFOOT does not respond.)

 

CERA
Does sleep give you the power to stop asteroids? Are you working on your savior complex?

 

(LITTLEFOOT does not respond.)

 

CERA

Is it happening today? And you want to die in your sleep? I don’t want to die in my sleep. And I definitely don’t want to die trying to get you to snap out of it.

You better tell me if it’s soon so I can go do something cool.

 

LITTLEFOOT

No one cares what you’re doing when you die.

 

CERA

I care.

I want to be mid-jump. That would be so cool.

 

LITTLEFOOT

...

I don’t know when the asteroid strikes. I just know the devastation. No one will survive. No longnecks, no threehorns, not even any sharptooths. If I come explore with you, I’ll only see what we’ll lose.

 

CERA

It might not be for ages! So you could die of natural causes first.

 

LITTLEFOOT
An asteroid is natural.

 

CERA
Okay, whatever, but I mean like… Your heart, or your lungs, or something. Organ causes. Or a landslide, or the jaws of a sharptooth! You could die on a grand adventure!

 

LITTLEFOOT
Very encouraging.

 

CERA

If this asteron thing is gonna happen, it was gonna happen just the same last week.

 

LITTLEFOOT
But I / didn’t know

 

CERA
/ And it’s gonna happen for everyone who is still living their lives.

 

LITTLEFOOT
They can live their lives. It just doesn’t matter.

 

CERA

I don’t wanna say it matters how you feel. You’re a definite bummer. But it might. Matter.

 

LITTLEFOOT

(looking at CERA) Cera...

 

CERA
I didn’t say anything. You’re being a big dummy, using that long neck to hide your head in the sand. You can’t save the world any less than you are now.

 

LITTLEFOOT
I can’t save it any more, either.

 

CERA

Well, you can be less boring.

 

LITTLEFOOT
No, I can’t.

 

CERA
A treestar falling is less boring.

 

LITTLEFOOT

I can’t be a treestar falling. All I can do is wait for / the asteroid

 

CERA

/ All you can do is something, or nothing.

Maybe it doesn’t matter, but there sure is a difference.

 

(CERA starts to walk away. LITTLEFOOT watches her. CERA turns back.)

 

The asteroit hasn’t destroyed fun yet. I checked.

 

(CERA continues away. LITTLEFOOT stretches, then balls up some mud and throws it at her. End scene.)

Comments

[kihou]

I like that last line.