True and Legit

Enter

BOTH

I am not going to get sick. I'm not going to die in the street so someone can step over my body.

TRUE

I don't know what...

LEGIT

I don't know, I don't know.

TRUE

It's just ... out of nowhere.

LEGIT

They don't look sick.

BOTH

No sneezing. No coughing. No fevers. No runny noses.

TRUE

Mom on the kitchen floor.

LEGIT

Dad with his newspaper.

BOTH

They're everywhere.

LEGIT

Mr. Merchant on the crosswalk.

TRUE

Mrs. Allen on the front lawn.

BOTH

The guy who owns the corner store and hates teenagers and says they steal chocolate bars and rob him blind.

TRUE

If I stay here, I'll be safe.

LEGIT

It's clean and clear.

TRUE

It's gotta be safe.

BOTH

Maybe they're just asleep. Maybe when I go back down, everything will be normal.

TRUE

Maybe they'll be dead.

BOTH

Maybe they'll be dead be dead and I'm not and what if what if what if ... what if..

TRUE

The wall.

LEGIT

I didn't realize.

TRUE

I must be pretty far out.

BOTH

To be so close. I've never been so close.

LEGIT

My blood.

TRUE

My stones.

BOTH

The wall is for the best. We built it with our hands. We bled and sang and cried and prayed.

TRUE

Every day.

LEGIT

Every night before bed.

BOTH

Thank you for keeping me in.

TRUE

Thank you for keeping them out.

LEGIT

Thank you for keeping them out.

TRUE

Hello?

LEGIT

(Hello?)

TRUE

Hello?

LEGIT

(Hello?) Who's there?

TRUE

(Who's there?) Who's there?

LEGIT

(Who's there?)

TRUE

Is somebody there?

LEGIT

(Is somebody there?) It's the wind.

TRUE

It's an echo.

BOTH

It's my own voice. There's no way it could.

TRUE

Are you?

LEGIT

You are.

TRUE

Oh no.

LEGIT

Oh gosh.

BOTH

Somebody's there.

TRUE

Help!

LEGIT

Help!

BOTH

What do I do? What do I ...

TRUE

Help!

LEGIT

Help!

BOTH

Somebody help me!

TRUE

They're here!

LEGIT

They're climbing the walls!

TRUE

They're coming for me!

LEGIT

They're gonna slit my throat!

TRUE

Leave me for dead!

BOTH

Somebody help me!

LEGIT

I don't want to die!

*Fall, Curl up, Beat, Approach*

BOTH

Are you still there?

TRUE

I don't have any money.

LEGIT

I'm scrawny. There's no meat on my bones.

TRUE

I don't want to die.

BOTH

There wouldn't be any point to climbing that wall.

LEGIT

Or slitting my throat.

TRUE

No point at all.

LEGIT

I run really fast. You won't be able to catch me.

TRUE

You won't be able to catch me.

LEGIT

Why would I catch you? I'm running from you.

TRUE

I'm running from you.

BOTH

You're trying to trick me.

LEGIT

You're the devil. My mother told me so.

TRUE

You're just trying to trick me.

LEGIT

I know all about you.

TRUE

You're the devil. My mother told me so.

LEGIT

If I was the devil, why would I call for help?

TRUE

To trick me.

BOTH

In my dreams, you're full of tricks. Full of praise and truth that flakes from lips and rolls from eyes like crocodile tears.

LEGIT

You're not to be trusted.

TRUE

You're not to be believed.

BOTH

You're not to, not to, not to...

LEGIT

Would you just get it over with?

TRUE

What?

LEGIT

Aren't you coming over here?

TRUE

Why?

LEGIT

To attack. To slaughter. To maim. To kill. That's what you're supposed to do.

TRUE

No. You're supposed to attack me. Attack, maim, slaughter, kill me.

BOTH

This is the moment they've been telling us about for years to make us go to bed early and eat Brussels sprouts.

LEGIT

You're supposed to thirst for the blood of the innocent.

TRUE

You're supposed to hide under our beds and kill us while we sleep. Why would you call for help?

LEGIT

Why would you?

TRUE

I'm afraid.

LEGIT

You? You're on the other side of the wall.

TRUE

You're on the other side of the wall.

BOTH

It's for your own good. You're the enemy. You are!

LEGIT

Ever since I was born.

TRUE

My father told me so.

BOTH

You were sent away.

LEGIT

You're not one of us.

TRUE

No, no! Don't say that! You were sent away.

LEGIT

We stayed.

TRUE

We stayed. You left.

LEGIT

It's for the best you left.

BOTH

Everything is for the best.

LEGIT

Stop it!

TRUE

Stop sounding like me!

LEGIT

You've changed your voice, but I know what you look like.

TRUE

You're the monster hiding under my bed.

LEGIT

You have three eyes and scraggly hair and four arms and scales.

TRUE

Stop it! You're the one with scales and a foot-long tongue and claws.

LEGIT

You're the one with claws.

BOTH

Ever since I was born, my mother told me so.

TRUE

Are you going to attack me or not?

LEGIT

Don't be stupid.

TRUE

Why don't you leave me alone then? Go away.

LEGIT

Why don't you go away? Go back where you came from.

TRUE

You better leave me alone.

LEGIT

Or what?

TRUE

Or else. Or else I'll get the whole town up here like that. Then you'll be sorry.

LEGIT

Oh yeah? I can get twice as many up here to make you even sorrier.

TRUE

Not if I get back here first. You'll be really really sorry.

LEGIT

You'll be too slow by half.

*Run, Beat, Return*

BOTH

I don't want to get sick. I don't waht to die in the street so someone can step over my body.

TRUE

Are you still there?

LEGIT

You're still there.

TRUE

I can hear you.

LEGIT

I told you to go away.

TRUE

Why didn't you go? I told you to go.

BOTH

SO go. Go. You go!

LEGIT

I...

TRUE

What?

LEGIT

Nothing. Go away.

TRUE

I...

LEGIT

What?

TRUE

You wouldn't understand. Go away.

LEGIT

I have to stay here. Get lost.

TRUE

I can't go back

BOTH

Why?

LEGIT

You wouldn't understand.

TRUE

Why do you have to stay?

LEGIT

What do you care?

TRUE

I don't.

LEGIT

Why can't you go back?

TRUE

What do you care?

LEGIT

I don't.

TRUE

So leave me alone.

BOTH

I don't care. It's just that if you had a reason. I wondered if there was a reason and you could tell me because...

LEGIT

What do you care?

TRUE

I don't. I just wondered. Is there ... not that there would be ...

LEGIT

Is there ... Is anyone on your side ... not that I care...

BOTH

Is anybody sick?

LEGIT

What do you mean "sick"?

TRUE

I mean sick. Don't you know what sick means?

LEGIT

How sick? Like lying in the street sick?

TRUE

Lying in the street. And everyone is.

LEGIT

Like they were stopped in the middle of ordinary things?

TRUE

And they look like they're asleep.

LEGIT

And it happened to everyone?

TRUE

And why didn't it happen to me?

LEGIT

On your side?

TRUE

All over my side. You too?

LEGIT

What's going on?

BOTH

I'm so alone. I'm so scared.

There's no one to talk to. They don't listen.

There's no one to look out for me. There's no one on my side.

I've been in a panic. There's echoes of silence I can't breathe for; the echoes I can't take, I can't take ...

What happened to everyone? Why didn't it happen to me?

I'm so glad I ...