Ham drools mallow goop. His hands are fisted tight... 'mallows
squirt out twixt his clenched fingers.
REPEAT & TIMMY
have their pillows 'round their heads like bonnets.
DENUNEZ & YEAH-YEAH
stare and shake.
BERTRAM'S
eyes are shut tight, his bottom lip shudders.
BENNY
gulps.
SCOTTY'S
sitting shattered. He checks his pants to see if he's peed
them. His mallow's a briquette. It SPUTTERS and flames out.
SQUINTS
is proud of his story prowess.
SQUINTS
And so... The Beast sits there under
that lean-to, dreaming about the time
when he can break the chain and get
out... dreaming of the time when he
can chase and kill again.
43
THE GANG
BERTRAM
See, man. That's why you can't go
over there. Nobody ever has. Nobody
ever will.
HAM
One kid did, but nobody ever seen him
again.
DENUNEZ
That ain't true -
HAM
- yeah it is! He got eaten!
YEAH-YEAH
Yeah-yeah - that kid who went to get
his kite... what was his name?
DENUNEZ
"Boogers" Fleming?
TIMMY
No. It was that guy with the warts on
his face.
REPEAT
Davy "The Toad."
TIMMY
That's what I said.
Solemnity spreads among them. Kid-reverence.
SQUINTS
Davy "The Toad" Stodenrous.
BERTRAM
Yeah, The Toad...
YEAH-YEAH
Yeah-yeah, poor Toad.
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