INTO DREAM

A slumber order arrives by scroll, and when Torm tells her frightened sister she won't be going under herself — she'll keep working — her sister's biggest fear is that the Elders will find out and separate them. Torm puts her at ease, delivers the dream drop, and watches her sister dissolve into a deep, beautiful slumber. Standing over the nearly empty water supply, Nurse Rina's cruel words echo in her head — get the river flowing or say goodbye — and in that moment Torm decides she will do exactly that. She connects the remaining water tanks to the vapor machine, buying her sister two months, packs her gear, kisses her sister's forehead, and slips quietly past the sleeping village and its guards into the night. At the river's edge she finds a search party heading north toward the Great Falls, but something deep and instinctive pulls her in the opposite direction — and trusting that instinct the way she trusts her science, Torm goes south.

A: TORMS house into dream
B: torm sneaks out through cemetery

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Torm is working at her lab while her sister sleeps. A knock comes at the door, wakes the sister and a scroll comes through a slot.

MESSENGER (O.S.)
(voice muffled through the door)Village order!

Torm gets up and retrieves the scroll and reads it silently.

SISTER
What does it say?

Surprised that her sister is awake, Torm looks at her in silence and then looks back at the note keeping her thought hidden. Torm retrieves a small vial of sleep root drops and makes her way to her sister's bedside.

TORM
It's an order for a village-wide slumber.

SISTER
For how long?

TORM
Until the Village Elders wake us.

SISTER
I'm afraid! How will we administer the mineral vapor?

TORM
No need to worry about that, I am not going to slumber. I'm going to keep working on our little fever puzzle.

SISTER
What if the Elders see that you're not in slumber? They could separate us.

TORM
Let me worry about the Elders. Besides, I have a feeling a slumber could be beneficial to fighting the fever.

SISTER
Please don't let me sleep forever.

TORM
Never...lay back. Soon you'll feel the comfort of slumber.

Torm’s sister lays back and prepares to receive an eye drop.

SISTER
I love you.

TORM
good dreams.

Torm holds the dropper over her sister's eye and delivers one last promise..

TORM
I won't let anything happen to you.

Torm releases the tear-shaped drop into the air, falling slowly into her sister's eye. Her sister is pulled into a dream by an iris that morphs into a spinning machine whose arms fold into themselves. They create a perfect repeating spherical row of clones that rotate inwards pulling a stream of brilliant flashing flares through a long tunnel of ornate dreamcatcher frames, finding their way to SISTER floating in a slow-motion cloth tailing out in every direction as she hovers blissfully in a deep sleep.
Torm sees that the drops have done their job by the way her sister breathes: slow, steady and long. Torm looks at the vapor machine next to her sister's bed and the dregs of water sitting on her lab table.

SHE HEARS HER OWN VOICE IN HER HEAD

TORM
Get the rivers flowing again

That means she would have to do what no one has ever done: reach the top of the falls. She looks down at her sister with loving eyes. That was the moment she decided it was possible. She bursts into action. She moves some water tanks over to her sister's bedside and connects them to the vapor machine. There is enough water to make vapor for at least two months. Her sister will not need to eat or drink or worry about any other biological function because the slumber controls those needs. Torm fills her bag with tools and gear, throws on her journey cape and goes to her sister's bedside. Warmly stroking her sister's hair, she speaks to her.

TORM
I won't let the rivers stay dry, dear little sister. I will be back with the waters and the cure.

Torm kisses her sister's forehead and then makes her way quietly out of their tiny house. Knowing that the Captain of the Guard is on constant watch, Torm knows that her sister will be safe but will prove to be a slight inconvenience since Torm would have to sneak out of Dreamer Village.
The large order bells has been replaced by a glowing one with a felt hammer whose tone softly indicates to the world that Dreamer Village is in slumber. She makes her way past the guards and soon finds herself IN THE VILLAGE CEMETARY...she finds a way out through a seret tunell in a grave.. She sees a seeker party gathered at a large sign that points north and reads Great Falls. Torm suddenly feels a strong inscrutable pull from her instinct to go south, which to her rational mind makes no sense, but Torm has learned that sometimes the opposite way of working can get the exact results you are looking for. She goes South.