(DISTANT MONSTER CALLS)
How old was he?
Oh. He's, em, he was big for his age.
Was he into sports or... Getting into trouble, like?
An astronaut? Aw, wow.
I never met an astronaut before.
So, my little one... Angela...
She wanted to be a dancer.
And a scientist and a superhero
but mainly a ballerina because that one was the prettiest.
One Halloween... (laughs)
I made her this, eh, costume.
She was 'Captain Tutu'.
Oh it was just her ballet uniform with this hideous mask
that she found in the Euroshop.
(laughs) But she loved it...
She was... magnificent.
She was beautiful and small and...
Delicate.
Just like porcelain.
God, I don't even have a photograph of her.
Do you know that?
See, I... I used to think it was cruel. When a person was taken young.
Before they'd had a chance to live.
Now I see babies born and they take their first breath and they taste ash...
And their skin? Their skin...
burns and cracks in the air.
And after another day in hiding... choking. Starving.
They beg you to hear that story about birdsong. (scoffs)
Not about fairies and unicorns, no...
The one's about butterflies.
The one about the little boy and girl who rolled down the hill
in the sunshine, outside, laughing...
"Mammy will you tell me what it was like?"
"Mammy tell me what the world was like before it hated us."
Now I know what you know...
I know why you buried your little boy out there.
I know... because I've done them too.
Terrible things.
(FIRE CRACKLES)
(THUNDER)
(DISTANT MONSTER CALL)
(CREATURE ROARS)
(CREATURE ROARS, ALERT)
(CREATURE GROWLS)