300. St. Ian and the Revelation Blues - Leslie

• FADE IN:


• EXT. CHURCH ROOF - DUSK


• IAN climbs up the side of the church wall, careful not to look down at the ground far below him.


• The ladder, bolted to the brick, is rusty in spots, showing its age.


• He reaches the roof and pulls himself over the side.


• AMIRA sits on the other side, his feet dangling over the busy city street below.


• He is almost completely androgynous, a face so beautiful that one instant many would insist he is a woman and at the same time so masculine that many others would be just as sure that he is a man - it is a face that is almost liquid in its ambivalence.


• Ian sits next to him, back against the short wall separating roof from thin air.


• AMIRA
• You humans are quiet the odd bunch, dear one. I really do enjoy watching you.


• IAN
• Thanks, I think.


• AMIRA
• You're tense, Pastor.


• IAN
• Had a conversation with a lady in the lobby about Revelation. Always stresses me out. I feel like maybe I don't take it seriously enough.


• AMIRA
• Do you keep an eye open for the signs?


• IAN
• Yes...


• AMIRA
• Then you do what is necessary for that. Your job is not to obsess about these things - you're supposed to be building the kingdom here. You do what you need to here, in this place - let Father work the rest out.


• IAN
• I know, I know, and yet I still stress.


• AMIRA
• There's a reason we weren't given the time of the Return. Look, you are part of something big here. And I get to see it happen, I'm pretty excited. You get your people really talking to Father and soon. Then watch. Something big's coming.


• IAN
• Do you mean...?


• AMIRA
• There you go again. Look, Father could return tomorrow and he could return after you humans have colonized the solar system. You don't need to be worrying about that.


• IAN
• Right.


• He turns to Amira.


• IAN
• Are you just part of my mind, here to make me feel better? Am I just hallucinating.


• Amira winks at him.


• Ian shakes his head and looks away, down the length of the roof.


• IAN
• Sometimes I think you're just my way of comforting myself - maybe reinforcing some of my own thoughts or guilt, even.


• He turns back to Amira, but Amira is gone.


• IAN
• Figures.


• He leans back against the brick, and takes a deep breath.


• FADE TO BLACK.