Year of the Horse - Act One Fucked Up

-SCENE ONE-
PEGASUS:
Running alone, trapped in this world;
Not your own, not your home
Pushed down into the dust, left by fate to rust
Feel the pull of the stars from behind your bars!
Crack the sorcery of Sour’s monstrosity!
Perceval run free, come back to me
Look up at the moon child, you will be home soon!
Daughter of the sky, mother light divine
(Around midnight in the small western settlement of Abfall, four young boys—Haughty, Red Boy
Gwayne Boy, and Corncob—enter a stable where horses are kept. Soon they are joined by Drunken Kaye.)
A gun explodes, and a horse goes cold
The valley echoes, and a bell tolls
Young Blanche wakes, inside her a fear quakes;
She learns that life can give, but it can also take
Haughty tightens the noose, says
HAUGHTY:
Draw up for high noon!
The old tree tomorrow, hag heads undone to roll
Drunken Kaye with her hot iron, charged by a cruel fire
Fresh flesh for a star-brand, Sour’s wish is her command
The horses howl, and Perceval lashes out
Kicks Red Boy up to his guts, and the posse laughs and shouts
Kaye stares down the mare
KAYE:
You hidin’ something rare
Behind those sooty eyes. Calm now, else you’re gonna die
You just look down—fix those eyes to the ground
Ain’t no divinity up there who’s gonna set you free
No help is comin’ down, the sky don’t care about this town—
This waste is just a den of creeps, where bullets and life are cheap!