X-Men Page #2

ONE DEVIOUS CHILD seems to get an idea. He takes his

stick and smacks it across her shoulder. She turns to

face the child and another swings his stick across her

back with a solid THWACK. Before long, mob rule gives

way and all the kids are swinging at her and laughing.

It grows to the brink of frenzy, the laughing and the

shouting not too unlike the noise of the previous scene.

So much so, we may miss the first flake of snow. The

children certainly do. It is snowing for a good ten

seconds before the last of them stops.

By then, the snow is thick as flies and wafting down to

melt instantly on the hot African soil that has never

seen snow before.

ANGLE ON:

Adults come out of their huts and in from the fields and

the whole of the village is soon gathered around the

little girl, staring up from the clear blue sky and the

snow that falls from nowhere. From nothing.

One by one, all eyes fall on the little girl and the

looks of curiosity become looks of fear. Of

superstition.

Punctuated by a solid thump.

And then another.

AN OLD MAN looks down at his feet and sees a tiny,

misshapen ball of ice, no bigger than his eye. He looks

at it, bites it, then pops it in his mouth - breath

turning to steam.

Another such chunk of ice pops him on the head. THE

CROWD LAUGHS.

They look up again and see that mixed with the snow are

tiny pellets of hail, seeming to increase in number as

the snow mysteriously wanes.

And the pellets are getting larger. Until they land as

hunks.

The white haired girl drops to the ground and covers her

head as hailstones the size of baseballs plow into the

Earth.

Before long, tents are collapsing and panic ensues.

And all along the white haired girl sits huddled in the

dust, crying.

As hailstones fall in a circle around her, never coming

closer than then a few feet or so.

INT. HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM - NIGHT

ONE MORE SKY. This one a backdrop. Cheap paint and

tissue paper hung with hooks on a wall just behind the

basket on a full court.

As we pull back, we see the skyline of New York, crudely

made out with its silhouette buildings of dark gray and

black - windows of yellow.

Among the famous landmarks represented is the Statue of

Liberty, complete with a real light bulb burning in the

torch.

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