Oblivion: Scene 2

BM: But for now... for now... you are blind. It is why... why... you must have...

FW: Oh God, please help this sad and tortured man, and free me from this place.

FW: Who’s there?

Second Wanderer: Hello?

FW: Ah! Who are you? SW: Where am I?

FW: I don’t know.

SW: The storm is frightful.

FW: You were out there?

SW: I was wandering. I seemed to be going nowhere.

FW: I did the same until I found myself here, like you. How long did you wander?

SW: It seemed like an eternity.

FW: The storm is so powerful. It has the strength to disorient.

SW: Why are we here?

FW: Are we just lost?

SW: Is it some trick?

FW: Have we been injured? Or is someone taking vengeance on us?

SW: Perhaps we’ve been abducted!

FW: If someone is playing a trick on us, they better show up and explain themselves. That’s got to be a pretty evil person. I mean don’t you think that it’s most likely that we’re lost? I really don’t think we’ve been abducted, so it must be that we are lost. But I have no idea, I mean it could be anything, it could be anything.

SW: Well, if we’ve been abducted then wouldn’t we have marks on us somewhere because we probably struggled somehow, but then again, what if we were just knocked out and then dragged here. But you look fine, so maybe it was something even worse, like, well, I don’t know it could be anything.

SW: What do you remember? FW: I ... remember nothing... SW: I too... remember ... nothing.

SW: I’m starving!

FW: Don’t touch! It’s the hunters.

SW: Who?

FW: He took me in.

SW: And who is this?

FW: Don’t speak with him, he’s dangerous!

BM: Help! Help! I can... can...

SW: What?

FW: If we disobey the hunter, we’ll die. He’ll kill us.

BM: Look! Look!

SW: A passageway!

FW: Don’t go there. The Hunter told me not to! He will be angry to see you here!

SW: I will tell him I am lost. Like you.

FW: He insists I go back to the wild. He will expect the same of

you.

SW: Why hasn’t he killed you anyway?

FW: I am no threat to him.

SW: Maybe he is tricking you. He could tie us up! Just like him!

BM: Take me!

FW: He must be bound here for a reason.

SW: It’s true. Who should we trust?

FW: Who should we trust?

BM: Take me! There is a... a... a great... judgement coming!

FW: He’s been speaking gibberish since I got here.

BM: To dust... to dust...

SW: It sounds like a riddle or a warning.

BM: There is a great battle coming. Some shall fall so that the rest may be refined! Until the end!

H: What is this?!

FW: We were...

H: I told you not to speak with him.

SW: He wouldn’t stop!

H: Who are you?

FW: She, she...

SW: I arrived just as he did. Where are we?

H: I will kill you both for disobeying me.

SW: Please! He was doing what he thought was right.

FW: Spare her. I let her in.

BM: It is, it is, the way!

H: Silence! You are testing my patience. If you wish to stay you must do as I say, or all will be chaos.

SW: Why do we remember nothing?

FW: Nothing!

H: If you wish to remember, you must choose to walk the path in the wild. There all will be revealed.

SW: Why do you stay here?

H: I... I have glimpses. They are too painful. I’ve said I wish not

to know.

SW: It’s true – this not knowing is freeing. I feel I can be anyone.

FW: You wish to be someone else?

SW: Why not? To have a second chance – what a thrill! Think of all I could get right.

FW: You sound like a perfectionist.

H: It is perfect not to know. There is balance in not knowing.

BM: Then you will never know yourself.

H: I know enough to be content.

BM: How will you atone?!

H: I will not atone! And live in torment. And be punished. This man has been ruined. As for you... you will go.

FW and SW: But the wild is deadly! The storm is deadly! We can’t go back. We’ll die.

H:No, here I am safe, because I seek nothing. You seek knowing and remembrance. You may stay the night, but then you must go, to walk the path. All else is temptation.