Carousel Scene

INT. IN THE WOODS WITH THE CAROUSEL - NIGHT 

Ava comes upon the sight of a carousel in the woods and stops in place. She listens intently to the music projecting from the carousel. A look of worry falls from Ava’s face and she simple looks peaceful. She was on her way to Ame’s grave. She cuts through a path that they used to take in the woods. 

                                                         Ava (Whispers)

                           Mon imitation d’un reves. (My imitation of dreams).

Ava makes her way through the trees to make it to the sight of this carousel. 

                                                NARRATOR

The song projecting through the woods was quite similar to the song that played on the carousel where she first met Ame. She remembers him sitting on the black stallion. He had a stern look to him. He looked forward, uninterrupted. He seemed to have a purpose but she couldn’t think of what it could be. She could only wonder what a man of his age was doing on a carousel.

Ava comes upon the carousel, crookedly spinning with that eerie creek with every rotation but the rotation was in some slow speed, only one that could be of a dream.

SCENE DESCRIPTION 

When Ava sees the carousel it is eerily slow. The music slows down to the tempo of the rotation. The lights on the carousel start to flicker and the man on the black stallion is hunched over with his face looking at his feet and his arms dangle. Ava is unable to see his face. She walks up beside the man and walks at the same pace of the carousel. The man’s body seems sickly. He is dressed similar to Ame but she knows it’s not him. She begins to imitate the first time she saw Ame on that carousel. She stands a little ways from the carousel and watches it spin. 

                                                

                                                  NARRATOR

She imagines those kids jumping on and off horses and chariots, trying to find their place on the carousel as Ame just sat still. This time it was different, there were no people and this man was not Ame, more like a sickly soul.    

SCENE DESCRIPTION 

Ava approaches the carousel and gets on the golden horse, five horses behind the man. The carousel begins to go at normal pace. Kids are jumping on and off the horses. A reenactment of her past memory. The man sitting straight and bold like Ame on that say. She steps off the golden horse and approaches him. She puts her hand gently on his back and whispers in his ear.

                                                       Ava

                                           I’ve missed you... 

The man turns to her quicker than a normal being would jerk their head. There are no details on his face. It is just static. His face just like a pixelated screen. She hears the ear pinching noise of loud static and there are no more kids in sight. She covers her ears and screams, so loud you can hear her vocal chords vibrating. The carousel stops abruptly and she flies to the ground of the carousel. The lights go out and all she sees is the face of static in the darkness of the woods. She sees the man’s body dangling from the black stallion and the noise grows louder. She gets up and runs back home as far as she can get from this haunting image.

                                                NARRATOR

That night, Ava ran through the woods faster than she has ever ran for anything. She saw more constellations than she thought possible. She heard the birds going wild in the trees. With the melody of songbirds she could only think, “Sing me to safety.” 

EXT. SHE COMES UPON AN OPEN FIELD FULL OF HOT AIR BALLOON - NIGHT