Lights Out

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Lights Out

Prompts: Vulnerability 10. When a new “star” is seen in the sky, it prompts different reactions among those who look up – including curiosity, confusion, awe and apathy. 4. A wad of wires Scene: Night-time. A city. A man is standing on a high rooftop of an apartment building, overlooking the neon lights and busy traffic of the street below. He seems to be an electrician of some sort, working on a tangle of wires that are responsible for blwoing out the power of the rooms below him. His overall mood is almost grim as he works, or at least, he is discontented. The wires are proving tricky and he heaves an irritated sigh. Behind him, he hears a sound, though what exactly it is, we don’t know for sure. But he senses some presence, some disturbance, behind him, and turns around. He catches sight of something – a girl, swamped in a well-worn hoodie, leaning over the lip of the rooftop. Eddie: Hey. (more alarmed) Hey! The girl looks back at him, apathetically. She doesn’t move