Man-In-Sea

Scene 32

LINK

Clay and I flew there while Bill and Marion brought the car. Clay told Bill not to get lost with our food, and Bill punched Clayton in the arm. I had no idea what the state of the place would be, I wasn’t even sure how long I’d left it. I’d been paying caretakers for a while, but even that seemed nonsense eventually.

CLAY

Jeez! I don’t think I’ve seen this place since I was sixteen.

ED

I wanted to sell it a few years back, but your mother just about took my head off.

CLAY

Maybe you shouldn’t have let them come with Bill. It’ll be days before he can find his way here.

ED

You shouldn’t make jokes. I’ve never been so scared as those nights your brother was lost.

CLAY

I wasn’t scared at all.

ED

Of course not, you got to sleep in your brother’s bunk for three days.

CLAY

I knew you’d never let anything happen to Bill. I knew you’d save him.

ED

He found his own way home.

CLAY

I know, but...

ED

I didn’t save him.

CLAY

It’s okay, Dad. It’s okay. Just forget about it.

ED

That whole time I was flying, I kept thinking to myself, “What if I don’t find him? What will I tell Clay?”

CLAY

I bet you could have gotten half of Canada out here to help...

ED

I couldn’t even save my own son.

CLAY

That’s ridiculous.

ED

It’s not! I read all the time how many lives I’ve saved, but when the cards were down, I couldn’t even save my own son.

MAN-IN-SEA

Cast of Characters:

LINK

An inventor. Also, Ed’s father.

ED

As Link remembers himself.

MARION

Ed’s wife.

CLAY

Ed and Marion’s second son.