Light A Single Candle

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Scene Title Light A Single Candle
Synopsis Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "It's better to light a single candle than sit and curse the darkness." For Elisabeth, that single candle — the thing she focuses on — is more internal than external.
Date Oct 27, 2010

Red Hook, Textile Factory 17, Firing Range


Maybe the best part of the Textile Factory's base — the state-of-the-art firing range. Deserted most of the time, Elisabeth prefers it that way. Number one, she doesn't have to wear headgear. She just mutes the high end of the sound range so she doesn't have to worry about it. Number two, there's no one there to see just how tight her groupings are, how lethally she places them, or how neutral her gaze is when she does it. Slipping a third clip into the handgrip of the pistol, the blonde chambers the first round and brings the firearm up.

The day is inexorably coming. Everything will change. Again.

Bang.

Have we changed the outcome at all? For the better or the worse?

Bang.

Enough to stop the broadcast?

Bang.

Enough to stop the riots?

Bang.

Enough to stop the concentration camps?

Bang.

Enough to keep ourselves from dying in a revolution that most people are only just realizing is being fought under their very noses?

Bang.

How many of our own will we lose this time?

Bang.

How much blood will be on our hands at the end of it?

Bang.

How far will we have to go?

Bang.

How far will I go?

Bang.

Methodically, precisely, Elisabeth puts all thirteen rounds from the clip into the target. She never flinches. Never does more than blink as she steadily fires. Her spent casings eject cleanly around her and when the clip is empty her hand comes back down. Blue eyes study the shadowy outline shredded with tight groups of holes that are so close they've destroyed the paper at stomach, heart, and head.

The day is coming.

And in the end, there is no decision to be made. To protect them all, I'll go as far as it takes. Even if it costs me everything. Some things are just more important.


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