THE SETTLEMENT
0205HRS
BIG BROTHER RUKUS
[continues shouting]
They keep treating us like shit. They think we are shit. I thought this
was a country. It is a sewer department!
SMALL BROTHER RUKUS
[slumps onto the ground after a frenetic search to no avail]
Be cool brother. Be cool.
GIGGLY SISTER RUKUS
Rant big brother. Rant.
BIG BROTHER RUKUS
I have seen it. It is no good. I tell you. Look around us. All these people
from wherever they came from. All hoping to lead a better life in this
new place. We escaped the motherland for better, greener pasture. I tell
you what. This is it. After we are dead and buried we will nourish this
land. We will make greener pastures for generations to come.
GIGGLY SISTER RUKUS
Buried? You mean they won’t incinerate us anymore?
[covers her mouth]
BIG BROTHER RUKUS
What difference does it make. We are toast that is what we are. Manure.
Ashes. It doesn’t matter.
SMALL BROTHER RUKUS
I would like to be buried. To be cremated always seems inhumane to me.
GIGGLY SISTER RUKUS
[takes the bottle from big brother and takes a sip and hands it back]
I wouldn’t mind cremation. I want my ashes to be spread all across the
seven seas.
BIG BROTHER RUKUS
[looks at the writing on the bottle]
I don’t see Hope among the ingredients here.
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