EXT. THE STREET - DAY
BASH (25) walks down the sidewalk. He's a smug look on his face and is dressed in expensively looking, but simple clothes.
He stops when he sees ALEXIA (23) laying on the entrance to the alley with a camera pressed to her face. She has long hair that's framing her face and is dressed in basic clothing. He looks at her for a while, nods to himself and walks up to her. He stands so his shadow falls on an old take away cup and clears his throat.
BASH
What are you doing?
Alexia lowers her camera and looks up at him with squinting eyes.
ALEXIA
Huh? Can you move a little? You're shadowing the objective.
He takes a step away from the sun and she looks into the camera again.
BASH
What are you doing?
ALEXIA
What does it look like? I'm making a moment last forever.
She takes a few pictures.
BASH
Why?
ALEXIA
If you have to ask you won't understand no matter how well I explain it to you. And, if I can be slightly self-critical, I'm not the best teacher.
BASH
I understand, believe it or not, but I want to hear your arguments. Why do you think that grey brown latte is something to immortalize?
She sighs, sits up, reaches toward him and lets him pull her up, before she presses the touch panel on the camera and hands it to him without letting go.
ALEXIA
What do you see?
BASH
Green grass, dusty asphalt and grey brown latte. And a few black ants.
ALEXIA
Well I see the sunlight reflect in the colour of the grass. I see it warm a few ants who are running for their lives when an unexpected flood of boiling fluid is coming toward them. By the way, it's cappuccino not latte and it's not grey brown but a much warmer shade of brown.
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Exitium: Pilot Episode
Science-FictionIn the future, when two dimensions are falling apart, it's up to one woman to save everyone before it's too late. When Alexia passes through a portal to another dimension, she learns that an alternative version of herself is a great warrior in a pos...