Page 34 – Perhaps an Exorcism
It’s hard to listen to your mom’s lecture when there’s a ghost talking in your head.
Original Script
MOM Perhaps Deacon Brewere knows how to perform an exorcism. JANE Mother! My necklace has been stolen! MOM Oh, you’re always misplacing that thing. JANE Argh! That “thing” sustains my life. It means more to me than… you! JANE Pointing at the ghost And, you! How did you not see her take it? MOM Now, Jane. You’re not being… GHOST I am hardly omnipotent. My spirit is tethered to you, not the necklace. Yet, I sense its influence if it is near.
Yikes. That’s some harsh language to use on her mother. And this time, she doesn’t even have possession to blame. Not that I don’t understand her frustration. Things are looking grim.
Jane may have a reputation of misplacing her necklace in the past.
Marry is so charmingly oblivious. When she laughed about the Queen deriding all the “simpletons” surrounding her, Marry ought not to have excluded herself. 🙂
True, but she is also dealing with her own baggage. Marry’s estranged mother (who was not a nice woman) died recently and they’ve into Marry’s childhood home. So, she’s not at her best. It comes up in a few pages as things escalate.
jane might have done better to confide in her parents a (little) bit more. not too much of course.
When have teens ever trusted a big secret with their parents, even if it’s not much of a secret at this point.