"WATCHER IN THE WOODS" 2.

KAREN
START Mama?

MRS. AYLWOOD
Shh, you were sleepwalking again and broke the
mirror; you cut yourself, that’s all.

KAREN
How?

MRS. AYLWOOD
I don’t know, but mirrors are made fragile as
the rest of us. Between the 4th of July
firecrackers and the thunder -
(thunder crashes, loud and close)
Some of us can only take so much.

She rises to collect a hairbrush.

KAREN MRS. AYLWOOD (CONT'D)

I heard Marcus and Saundra at Your friends know as well as
the door, again - you -

KAREN (CONT'D)
Why couldn’t I go with them?

MRS. AYL WOOD

- it isn’t safe; barking crowds, god knows how
many still sick, and to celebrate what?
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MRS. AYLWOOD (CONT'D)
Independence from reason? They should be
ashamed. Every one of them.

KAREN
Everybody lost somebody, mama.

MRS. AYLWOOD
END And I won’t lose you, too. Turn.

Karen obeys, and her mother

soothingly brushes her hair.