EXT. HOUSING ESTATE
Twimii walks around the housing estate. There are more people. Some are in small groups chatting.
No one looks familiar to Twimii.
She looks at the faces of those doing building work. She doesn’t recognise any of their faces either.
Some people who are in the groups glance her way. She returns a friendly enough look but doesn’t feel like going up to any of them.
She sees a truck over by one of the houses being constructed. She goes over to it, looks inside and then opens the door. She’s about to get in when a workman calls out to her.
SOME WORKMAN
Can I help you there?
TWIMII
Oh hi. I’m Twimii.
SOME WORKMAN
Are you looking for something?
TWIMII
I wanted to see if it was safe to drive the truck into the fog?
The workman looks her up and down a moment.
SOME WORKMAN
We’re using the truck.
TWIMII
I’d only take it for a minute or two.
SOME WORKMAN
No.
Twimii backs out of the truck and walks up to him.
TWIMII
Ye put up all those houses very fast.
The workman doesn’t understand her so she points to the new row of houses.
SOME WORKMAN
They were there already. You just couldn’t see them.
TWIMII
Are there more houses in the fog?
SOME WORKMAN
There’s a few yeah.
TWIMII
If I walked through the fog back there I’d walk into a house?
SOME WORKMAN
The fog isn’t safe. Are you not happy where you are?
TWIMII
I just want to understand the situation here better.
SOME WORKMAN
I’d say you understand it well enough Twimii.
He walks over to the truck and slaps its door shut, and leaves without another glance at Twimii.
Twimii stands there a moment wavering and then decides to check out the rest of the estate.
At the end of what used to be a cul-de-sac, in the gap between two houses, is now a road that carries through to a fork, the right of which is the next row of houses which face into the fog, their backgardens abutting the backgardens of the first row of houses. The left side of the road disappears into the fog.
Twimii looks at the fog, extending her hand out until it is no longer visible. She draws it back.
She looks at the row of houses. Things seem very quiet here. The only person she can see is a child CIAN sitting on the front door step a few houses down. She walks down the street, alternating between looking into the houses she passes and across the road hoping to see the shape of something through the fog.
In one of the windows there is a man staring out into the fog, completely preoccupied by his own thoughts.
As she is passing Cian he says hello.
CIAN
Hi.
TWIMII
Hey.
CIAN
Are you from here?
TWIMII
No.
CIAN
Where are you from?
TWIMII
Dublin. … I’m Twimii. What’s your name?
CIAN
Cian.
TWIMII
Hey Cian.
CIAN
What kind of a name is Twimii?
TWIMII
(shrugs)My kind.
CIAN
I saw a giant rabbit in a house back there this morning. It waved at me.
He gets up and points back to the house. Twimii nods.
TWIMII
That’d be the house I’m in. I live with a big rabbit, a teddy bear, a fluffy cow and … some sort of an accountant I think.
CIAN
Is it a robot?
TWIMII
What? … Oh Rabbit? No.
CIAN
What is it?
TWIMII
(shrugs)A man-sized fluffy rabbit?
CIAN
Does it have superpowers?
TWIMII
He does what he can. … Sometimes.
Cian scrutinizes her face a moment.
CIAN
Can we go home soon?
TWIMII
I hope so.
