| Simon and Lily try and make
their escape from a sleeping Celia, who turns out not to be sleeping.
She was just "testing" Simon and he failed and she rails against him for
his betrayal. She wants to know what Lily can give him that she can't
(more overtones of incest), and while he tries to appeal to her sisterly
affections (and seeming succeeding) Lily creeps up behind her with a machete
but Celia is wise to her and threatens to shoot Simon if she doesn't drop
it. Lily does and Celia sends Simon to gather some food.
Celia laments that she's
stuck with the most boring person on the planet but soon she's taunting
Lily about Rose replacing her. Lily doesn't believe it (even with
photographic evidence) so Celia launches into her own affair with.... Holden
(OK, I really thought she was going to say Simon! I wish she had!)
and how they tucked in Lily's children. Lily picks up a rock and
launches it at Celia who drops her gun into the hot spring.
Celia crawls to the
hot spring to retrieve her gun but Lily's soon after her. They scrape
and fight (and get wet. LOL!) as the gun is tossed out. Lily
goes after it, Celia goes after her, they roll around some more until Celia
prevails. Lily tells her to just shoot her, but if she hurts her
kids she'll see her in hell. Celia retorts, fine with her, there's
plenty of room... she pulls the trigger, but it jams or is empty.
Simon arrives after the fact, and grabs the useless gun from Celia and
throws it outside. (HUH?) Celia, sans gun, vulnerable to "the villiage
idiot" and "the most boring person on earth" is understandably distraught.
(Augusst 8-9, 2000)
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