The Seventh Wave, Episodes 29 and 30

A double helping this week.

Episode 29

In Limbo there are no movies. Nothing can be done. It’s all talk until things start moving again. He is in touch with his finance people. He made six films with these people and he knows the magic figure. If he brings the picture in under that number he will retain creative control. The magic figure changes with time but there’s always a number that works and he knows what it is. But right now, there’s no money available for anything.  Limbo’s a waiting game.

“Thank you for today,” he tells Anna.

“It was fun,” she says. “Dreaming your dreams and mine. The dream of pain. The dream of chocolate. The dream of a billion shattered pieces. The dream of an open door. The dream of an eyeball sliced by a cloud. The dream of perfume. The dream of a future. The dream of floods. The dream of love and death.”

Episode 30

That night she can’t sleep and goes to the window and sees the flickering glow on the horizon and smells the fire on the breeze.

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