Anastasia quickly hides under the crib as the door opens and a sister peeks in. The door closes in a matter of seconds. CUT TO: INT. BEDROOM – MORNING Anastasia wakes up to one of the sisters announcing breakfast at the door. She rubs her eyes with closed fists and gets out of bed, barely. 26. INT. CAFETERIA – MINUTES LATER Anastasia is in the cafeteria, six seats are all around her. Two stop next to Anastasia, Anastasia begins to show her change of mood with a big smile. GIRL #1 How does it feel to be bald? Her smile quickly fades. ANASTASIA How does it feel to have hair? GIRL #2 Sometimes it’s annoying because my neck sweets when I ANASTASIA Wow. That sounds like a big problem GIRL #1 What is it called, what you have. Cranper? GIRL #2 It’s called cancer. My aunt had it but she died. ANASTASIA I’m sorry to hear that. Anastasia looks down at her food, obviously affected by the conversation. The two girls leave Anastasia; she looks down at her food; overcooked steak accompanied by some peas and a handful of potato salad.
MUTED SHOT OF ANASTASIA – She’s screaming in between Sister Theresa’s arms. CUT TO ANASTASIA(V.O) And that’s when I learned my next lesson. Sometimes goodbye can be forever. INT. GIRLS’S ROOM – CONTINUED 34. Anastasia sits down on her bed looking out the window. Behind her a group of adults are talking to other girls her age. ANASTASIA(V.O) It was adoption day, and Aaron’s adoption is not the only one that took place today. Some girls walk out the door with some couples. ANASTASIA(V.O) Of course all the other girls are getting interviewed by families in need of another kid. I’m an opened book you know, but who will read me when my cover reads “Dying girl”. TIME LAPSE OF ANASTASIA – The room is empty, the light that was hitting her face through the window is not present anymore. Sister Theresa walks in and walks towards her. SISTER THERESA It’s not so bad. ANASTASIA It’s not so bad? Anastasia turns around to look at Sister Theresa, who is breathing heavily. ANASTASIA It’s not so bad?! Of course it isn’t, it’s horrible that people don’t see me as a normal girl just because I’m bald and sick. SISTER THERESA I know how you feel.
She catches the sword in the air and sees as the bird flies over the maze. She spots the second square space and she pulls on the birds legs. The bird screams as Anastasia holds its wings in place. The bird shoots down towards the square space with the inability to fly. Just when they are five feet from hitting the ground, Anastasia frees its wings and jumps off. INT. BIG SPACE – CONTINUED Anastasia watches as the bird flies away. A beat. She looks to the left to see very tall black gates; they slowly open as Anastasia sees two yellow glowing circles. ROAAAR! Blue fire escapes through the opened gates as a giant claw appears before Anastasia. The black head of a long mouthed dragon sticks out; it notices Anastasia and roars. The whole black body comes out. A fifty feet long dragon with a spiked back and hints of red in the bottom. Anastasia holds the sword right in front of the dragon and waves it back and forth; back and forth. The dragon gets distracted; of course before exploding with rage. It blows fire at Anastasia’s sword; the sword seems to be taking the fire and creating it into a yellowish glow. The glow sits around the sword; the dragon roars and chases Anastasia; who is already running. The dragon claws at Anastasia; it produces a great slash across her arm; she gasps in pain. 101.