Two guards sitting in front of the prison cell, throwing dice. The Little One in the background.
THE FIRST GUARD
Heard that?
THE SECOND GUARD
You?
THE FIRST GUARD
I think so.
THE SECOND GUARD
What did you hear?
THE FIRST GUARD
She speaks.
THE SECOND GUARD
Every normal person who has a mouth speaks. You’re not well.
THE FIRST GUARD
She spoke to herself. No normal person speaks to himself. She’s not a normal person, She rattles. She pretends that she’s an innocent girl. I don’t understand how a person who killed, a person who killed his love can be innocent.
THE SECOND GUARD
Maybe she wants to escape.
THE FIRST GUARD
How can one escape from such a modern prison when there are guards in front of the cell at any time. We are the guards of frozen human soul. I really don’t get it. She also doesn’t get it, that’s why she rattles as if sick. I’ve been a guard for a century and a half, and I can’t get away for an hour or two, to the yard, not to mention outside. Without any guilt or anything, and she, the one who killed her love, pretends that she’s innocent, and she wants to escape. She’s dreaming and she’s not aware that she does.
THE SECOND GUARD
Sometimes, maybe the best thing is to dream. That’s why we should not take it too hard upon her. We’re here only to keep her from escaping. As we had kept others and nobody ever managed to escape from the prison. From time to time I observe the murderers and I can’t believe how much gentleness and warmth they have. Sometimes I think that the bars could melt from this warmth. If we could melt too, they’d be free. It’s really weird. For example, this little girl, so small, fragile, gentle, and who knows the beast hidden in her. But we do our job as good as we can. THE FIRST GUARD
First she admits that she killed her love and then I hear her saying her love was transparent, that it moved up and reached the sun, and that no guard ever managed to prevent it.
THE SECOND GUARD
What was his name?
THE FIRST GUARD
It was a secret, but I heard her talking, and I heard her calling some… some… некој THE SECOND GUARD
Some…
THE FIRST GUARD
Yes some… Andreas…
THE SECOND GUARD
No.
THE FIRST GUARD
Angelo…
THE SECOND GUARD
It’s none of those names.
THE FIRST GUARD
How do you know when you don’t know it?
THE SECOND GUARD
Impossible, I’d recognize it immediately.
THE FIRST GUARD
I can’t remember.
THE SECOND GUARD
Never mind, tell it anyway.
THE FIRST GUARD
Roberto.
THE SECOND GUARD
Roberto who?
THE FIRST GUARD
Just accept it. I don’t know.
THE SECOND GUARD
Roberto who?
THE FIRST GUARD
Zucco.
THE SECOND GUARD
Strange name…
THE FIRST GUARD
Next time be smarter and play better. You’re here to guard only, Angelo and Andreas and Roberto. What the fuck do you care about their personal description… I won. He stands up, walks to the cell, opens the Little One’s door he gets out with the dove, he shows her the way and she “runs away”.