Devil Slayers!
This is the second scene preview to my Mystic Order of Defenders pitch coming up this summer at Comic Con. I'll link to the first scene last summer.
http://integr8dfix.blogspot.com/2011/06/cold-open-devil-slayer-in-mystic-order.html
Scene two
Devil-Slayer steps from his swirling Shadow Cloak into a well-kept, modestly-furnished office. His clothing becomes a simple dress shirt and pressed pants, and with a flourish, he snaps the cloak once, revealing a doctor’s coat, which he dons.
“Blessed toothache,” he thinks, as he puts his hand to his jaw. “No reason I couldn’t heal this, myself…but there’s just been no time to stop between my secret war…”
“and my responsibilities.” He stands in profile beside a plaque, certifying Eric Simon, Psychiatric Doctor. He closes his eyes, focusing his energies inward to cease his pain. “There really is little time for pain…and less so for Eric Simon Payne…that lost soul…”
He touches a calendar page, featuring a Matisse flower. “…who would celebrate, today, his wedding anniversary, in a saner world. But a mercenary, a cultist…a mystically-trained assassin…if the man Corey needed is somewhere inside such a morass of complications, it is nonetheless too late for such recriminations.”
Outside, a gaunt, white-haired man in his late fifties, glances up at a windmill in the daybreak as leans over a wooden fence for a bucket of goat’s milk left a moment before. He passes into a red barn, where he eyes a somewhat abused 1959 Triumph motorcycle standing in filtered sunlight, sitting on the tarp next to a tool box. “Looking good, Rosie,” he says to the vintage bike. He puts a handful of pesos into his battered blue jeans from the dresser of a small converted loft, adorned with a mirror and a silver crucifix. A made-up twin bed sits in the corner. An antique book sits on the pillow.
On his way through the yard, an eight year old boy comes up to him. He seems to have Down’s syndrome. “Senor Quijano!” he says. “Vamos a pescar?”
*”Soon, Emmanuel, “he replies. “I am glad you are using your words now! But you remember the promise I made you. If you will use the bathroom like a big boy, and keep using your words to talk to your mom and dad, I will take you fishing again with your brothers. “
“Bueno,” says Emmanuel, smiling lightly. “Trabajo con mis palabras hoy?”
“After lunch,” Quijano replies, “like every Thursday.” *
*En Espanol; es translado---Ed.
He walks into the back entrance of the kitchen, where a cook puts on a huge stew pot to boil. “Buenos dias, Al,” he says. “Buen mattina,” he replies genially, sitting the pail down on a counter. He reaches for a plate, which he fills thoughtfully with hash browns, chorizo and a corn cake made with sun-dried tomatoes. He slips two cups of black coffee onto the tray, then slips into a panel in the wall, revealing a dumbwaiter. He crouches inside it, tittering, then pulls a rope that releases a counter-weight, taking him up a floor, inside the wall. “Every since I began helping here at St. John’s, I have discovered more than one fun little secret passageway,” he thinks. He steps out of the wall with the tray, just outside Dr. Simon’s office.
Dr. Eric Simon picks up a file and sighs. “My present to those time-lost newlyweds comes late in years, but the gift of a saner world…a different viewpoint on my powers, my approach to the demons haunting everyday life…”
Simon exits his office, still musing :“if it is no redemption, perhaps it is a light to …”
“Buenos dias, Doctor,” says Al, smiling.
“Ah! Well! Good morning, Senor Quijano! How are you?”
“I had noted you arriving so early lately---or, at least, found you already hard at work, without note of your entry---breakfast begins by sunrise, and while everyting is hot and fresh…?”
“How thoughtful of you,” replies Simon, taking the cake in his hand. He thinks: “without fail, Alonso Quijano has been a faithful addition to our community efforts as well as some aid in the daily functions of the clinic…yet never have I been able to get a “fix” on his thoughts, as if he lacks…”location” in a conventional sense…and that is highly unusual, for one of my…perceptions."
(Continues!)
http://integr8dfix.blogspot.com/2011/06/cold-open-devil-slayer-in-mystic-order.html
Scene two
Devil-Slayer steps from his swirling Shadow Cloak into a well-kept, modestly-furnished office. His clothing becomes a simple dress shirt and pressed pants, and with a flourish, he snaps the cloak once, revealing a doctor’s coat, which he dons.
“Blessed toothache,” he thinks, as he puts his hand to his jaw. “No reason I couldn’t heal this, myself…but there’s just been no time to stop between my secret war…”
“and my responsibilities.” He stands in profile beside a plaque, certifying Eric Simon, Psychiatric Doctor. He closes his eyes, focusing his energies inward to cease his pain. “There really is little time for pain…and less so for Eric Simon Payne…that lost soul…”
He touches a calendar page, featuring a Matisse flower. “…who would celebrate, today, his wedding anniversary, in a saner world. But a mercenary, a cultist…a mystically-trained assassin…if the man Corey needed is somewhere inside such a morass of complications, it is nonetheless too late for such recriminations.”
Outside, a gaunt, white-haired man in his late fifties, glances up at a windmill in the daybreak as leans over a wooden fence for a bucket of goat’s milk left a moment before. He passes into a red barn, where he eyes a somewhat abused 1959 Triumph motorcycle standing in filtered sunlight, sitting on the tarp next to a tool box. “Looking good, Rosie,” he says to the vintage bike. He puts a handful of pesos into his battered blue jeans from the dresser of a small converted loft, adorned with a mirror and a silver crucifix. A made-up twin bed sits in the corner. An antique book sits on the pillow.
On his way through the yard, an eight year old boy comes up to him. He seems to have Down’s syndrome. “Senor Quijano!” he says. “Vamos a pescar?”
*”Soon, Emmanuel, “he replies. “I am glad you are using your words now! But you remember the promise I made you. If you will use the bathroom like a big boy, and keep using your words to talk to your mom and dad, I will take you fishing again with your brothers. “
“Bueno,” says Emmanuel, smiling lightly. “Trabajo con mis palabras hoy?”
“After lunch,” Quijano replies, “like every Thursday.” *
*En Espanol; es translado---Ed.
He walks into the back entrance of the kitchen, where a cook puts on a huge stew pot to boil. “Buenos dias, Al,” he says. “Buen mattina,” he replies genially, sitting the pail down on a counter. He reaches for a plate, which he fills thoughtfully with hash browns, chorizo and a corn cake made with sun-dried tomatoes. He slips two cups of black coffee onto the tray, then slips into a panel in the wall, revealing a dumbwaiter. He crouches inside it, tittering, then pulls a rope that releases a counter-weight, taking him up a floor, inside the wall. “Every since I began helping here at St. John’s, I have discovered more than one fun little secret passageway,” he thinks. He steps out of the wall with the tray, just outside Dr. Simon’s office.
Dr. Eric Simon picks up a file and sighs. “My present to those time-lost newlyweds comes late in years, but the gift of a saner world…a different viewpoint on my powers, my approach to the demons haunting everyday life…”
Simon exits his office, still musing :“if it is no redemption, perhaps it is a light to …”
“Buenos dias, Doctor,” says Al, smiling.
“Ah! Well! Good morning, Senor Quijano! How are you?”
“I had noted you arriving so early lately---or, at least, found you already hard at work, without note of your entry---breakfast begins by sunrise, and while everyting is hot and fresh…?”
“How thoughtful of you,” replies Simon, taking the cake in his hand. He thinks: “without fail, Alonso Quijano has been a faithful addition to our community efforts as well as some aid in the daily functions of the clinic…yet never have I been able to get a “fix” on his thoughts, as if he lacks…”location” in a conventional sense…and that is highly unusual, for one of my…perceptions."
(Continues!)
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