Midnight Train to Georgia

Off to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, so today I'll just post more of RING OF THE SORCERESS:

DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. DEEP WOODS (STREAM) -- AFTERNOON
Shadow splashes across the narrow stream, forging ahead, while Peryl stops, and cups her hand for a drink. She crouches and dips her hand once, twice, then splashes water over her face. For a moment, all that has happened weighs upon her.
Then she notices that Shadow is gone.
She looks around slowly, the panic rising.
PERYL
Shadow?
A hand falls on her shoulder. Peryl jumps bolt upright, and turns to face--Devlin Silverthorn.
SILVERTHORN
My child.
PERYL
Master, is it truly you?
SILVERTHORN
It is.
PERYL
How did you come to me?
SILVERTHORN
I am uncertain...though I know that magic is strong in this wood. And our Order has always had strong ties to nature.
Peryl bows her head.
PERYL
I am so sorry, master...had I not been out walking--
SILVERTHORN
You would be a shadow here beside me. Do not worry about such things. The end is the same for all. Only the paths are different.
(beat)
Listen, Peryl, for I sense my time is short. This land cries tears of blood. The cruel whip comes from the cold sky above. And only your companion has the means to stop this madness. Guard this one, Peryl, as he strives to guard you.
PERYL
My sentry skills are weak. Your shade before me is testament to that.
SILVERTHORN
You must be strong. Mayhaps I can give you something to help you on your dark journey.
Silverthorn produces a simple wooden talisman on a hempen rope. Peryl bends her head and Silverthorn slips it around her neck.
SILVERTHORN (CONT'D)
Let this be a ward against the dark magicks ahead.
Silverthorn takes a step backward.
SILVERTHORN (CONT'D)
Now I sense the gate tween your world and mine is closing. Fare thee well, child. The eyes of the land are upon you...their innocent blood is yours to shed or to save.
Peryl reaches out.
PERYL
Master, wait! There is so much unsaid...I never told you that...you were a father to me, the Abbey a home...
But Peryl is talking to the wind and the trees. Suddenly, Shadow is at her back.
SHADOW
Peryl?
She rudely shrugs out of his grasp.
PERYL
We stay together, or fall alone. Remember that, shadow!
She strides off, leaving a surprised Shadow in her wake.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. DEEP WOODS -- AFTERNOON
Peryl and Shadow are picking their way through a dark part of the forest, thick with moss and twisted boughs.
PERYL
I wonder now if we should have left the road.
SHADOW
I felt eyes upon me. I didn't feel we would be safe. You saw the Abbey.
PERYL
When I close my eyes I still see the Abbey.
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