The Name Written In Blood

Catherine Anderson Reed: Silence. That thick oppressing silence! The kind that makes you want to say something but you know- you know anything you say will doing nothing to cut and break and twist that silence. The kind of silence that suffocates you!

That is the silence I felt when I stood in that FOREST! The forest was dark brown decaying skeleton of leaves and bony black branches twisting towards me and entwining around my neck like a damn noose. Is this my execution?  My time of reckoning? The darkness has claimed my soul!  My soul I say!! (Cue manic laughter)

It claimed my very soul that night and by the Gods did it feel good!!! But- BUT! I remember laughing with so much wrongful glee and brilliance at the thought of being so utterly   tormented! That suddenly I stopped and- AHHHHHH!!!! (scream)

(Clutches head in despair and looks up with madness in the eyes) I could hear someone. A zombie like moan... It was a whisper at first but then it grew and GREW!! (Voice must go from low to rising fear and madness) THEN SHE CAME FOR ME!   (Must go up to an audience member) Hands stretched towards me bloody and dirt ridden….Twisted and gnarled fingers…Long bloody cuts up her arms as if someone had raked their fingers up her arms.

My legs pounded on that soft and terrible- horrendous and cursed ground. For under my feet were the bones of my sweet and innocent victims.  I saw HER! She came at me like a wild fire screaming with burning eyes! She was nothing! She was no one! I was everything! I AM EVERYTHING!

I didn’t shut up as I ran from her- she was chasing me! I kept speaking! I KEPT SPEAKING! I flicked back and forth going: “Don’t speak you stupid girl! BUT I NEED TO HEAR A VOICE!”  ( fall to the floor screaming and crying. Then stop instantly and smile manically). I was like the whirl wind! I was the madness! I was the brilliance! I was dancing on their graves! (Clip heels together. Remember to use levels). I was the king or Queen- whatever you want to call me. I owned them! Hahahahaha!!!

(Must stop dramatically and look disgusted. Also look around wildly). Then she stopped. The silence came hurtling towards me with the pungent smell of death.

Silence. Silence. Silence. SILENCE! (flick back and forth in high pitched and deep tones. Also a dark expression and hand movements are needed).

I should have DISAPPEARED! (Shout). I should have saved myself! I SHOULD HAVE! Before me was a broken tree with burnt but out limbs stretching towards a cast iron sky. A grim reaper’s  axe carved into the side of a tree! Even death himself could not stand me!

THEN I heard her again! (Fall to floor clutching head). Calling my name! MY NAME! She was calling my name! AHHHHHH!

I didn’t mean it! YES I did mean to kill you! NO! STOP IT! (head flip back dramatically and manic smile on lips). I wanted to taste the excitement and thrill of the case!

(Rises to feet dramatically) She never left. They never left- they were always chasing me. Like angels with chains. (Take a much darker tone or sing song voice). They will never stop coming for me. Their always lurking. Lurking in the shadows of the trees and silence. They are always watching. They are always waiting for me! They could chain me a hundred times and stab me a hundred times! Have my name written in blood upon their blade!

I WONT let them take ME!! (take dagger from side)

I would rather have my blood written on my own blade!

BLACKOUT

As you can probably gather is my monologue (updated) for Catherine Anderson Reed. She was the first character I had ever created and performed as. She was originally based on Professor Snape but later became more based on myself and the sort of criminal I would be. 

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