RAY
(To an Apostle.)
Then one day I went walking…I cam upon the Holy Spirit crying on a road. I said, ‘Holy Spirit why do you cry?’ He said. (SMOKE mouthing her words.) ‘Magic is existence, utterly.’ Yes, there are those who are compelled to the Spirit, as the world is like a carcass to them, and they leave it.’ I said, ‘Do you need a home? Then follow me.’ And so we went up to the mountains. We drank and sang. I think I might have gotten pregnant. I’m not sure but things happened afterward that made me think that I had. This boy appeared. He worked at the same company as me, claiming to be my son. As he had a sad face, I took him in. He grew. And it soon became apparent that he was of me. I saw his face staring back at mine; we seemed to know. He became a handsome white man. One day he said:
REX
The scariest thing would be to have someone else inside you.
RAY
And I said: ‘But I had you inside of me.’ This disturbed me, that I had voiced this when all I wanted to do was love my child. But I couldn’t love him because he….had…I don’t want to think about it.