JUNE 30, 2018, TIME UNKNOWN
The scene in the cavern is chaotic, caught at first in glimpses as the phone in Liam’s hand swings wildly. Sophia leaps toward the shard and vanishes. The Six-Wing claws after her, but it recoils from the heart itself, and screeches futilely at the empty air where she was a moment before.
It has nowhere to turn except on Sophie.
ABBY: Move! Sophie, get away from there!
Sophie turns and stares blankly at Abby. The Six-Wing reaches for her with six-fingered hands, each digit a knuckle too long, clawed at the end. Liam hesitates, but Abby flings herself forward, despite her broken ribs. Her knife is already black with echoes’ blood.
LIAM: Come on!
He grabs Sophie’s arm as Abby draws the Six-Wing’s attention. She at last seems to wake, to move. Together, she and Liam race to the inert forms of the kneeling figures. They are no help, but some of them are armed. Sophie has the same idea. Liam fumbles a sidearm from a soldier’s belt, and Sophie finds a long knife, a fish-gutting knife, on a sailor with rotted eyes.
The Six-Wing knocks Abby aside with one wing and stalks toward Sophie.
The camera drops. The struggle plays out in shadows on the wall, in crashing and shouts.
Suddenly: stillness. And then Sophie and the Six-Wing scream.