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         (C)  /en7/  TIME CODE: 09:30
        The Matre'd is overlooking the gathering from area C.
        He'll notice the bridal party outside, by the Power House.

        LYLLA moves into the area. /en5/ TIME CODE: 10:00

                         LYLLA
                Excuse me -- do you know when the
                ceremony will begin?

                        MATRE'D
                Not until the bride arrives, I
                presume.  I believe she makes a
                grand entrance of some kind.

                        LYLLA
                That's different.

                        MATRE'D
                I have nothing to do with the ceremony.
                I just provide the facility.

                        LYLLA
                For a pretty price, I imagine.  But I
                hear this church they belong to is loaded
                to the gills.

                        MATRE'D
                It's not as expensive here as you'd think.
                We are very competitive.

                        LYLLA
                Do wedding parties often write their own
                ceremonies?

                        MATRE'D
                Maybe one out of four.  I've never had the
                bride delivered so mysteriously, though.

                                LYLLA
                What's the purpsoe of that, do you think?

                        MATRE'D
                Beats me.  We'll have to wait and see.

                        LYLLA
                You think it'll make sense when we see it?

                        MATRE'D
                You have a point -- maybe it won't.

                        LYLLA
                I take it this is one of your stranger
                weddings.

                        MATRE'D
               It's the very strangest ever.  No doubt
               about it.  There's never been a 25 thousand
                year old High Priestess at Edgefield before.

                        LYLLA
                I'm sure!  Do you think the ceremony is intimately
                tied up with the religion itself?

                        MATRE'D
                It would have to be, wouldn't it?

                        LYLLA
                So if the wedding is strange, the religion
                itself must be strange.

                        MATRE'D
                Lots of religions are strange.

                        LYLLA
                But you have no doubt that
                this wedding is, let us say, unorthodox,
                to say the least?

                        MATRE'D
                So many questions: You sound like a lawyer.

                        LYLLA
                I am.

                        MATRE'D
                You've got a case against the religion
                or something?

                        LYLLA
                Not really.  I'm just trying to understand
                it.  I wonder, for example, where they get all
                their money.

                        MATRE'D
                Lots of rich misfits in the world.  Look
                at all those Kree that built that ashram in
                Juniper County, a Swami with dozens of Rolls
                Royces. These are no different.  You can be
                smart in some ways, smart enough to make a lot
                of money, and still be spiritually lost.  So
                when the right guru comes along, wham!, you
                feel like you've seen the light.

                       LYLLA
                That's how you'd explain it?

                        MATRE'D
                More or less.  I have a younger sister
                who joined the Kree.  She was validictorian
                of her high school class but that didn't
                stop her.

                        LYLLA
                It's a little sad, don't you think?  That
                people are so lost that they become gullible
                to cults.

                        MATRE'D
                Well, you have to consider the freedom of
                religion aspect as well.  Who's to say what's
                a cult and what isn't?  Are you Catholic?

                        LYLLA
                No.

                        MATRE'D
                My sister says Catholics are a cult, that
                the Pope has more power than any swami.
                Depends on your point of view.

                        LYLLA
                You sound like a very tolerant man.

                        MATRE'D
                When you've seen as much as I have, nothing
                surprises you.

                        LYLLA
                All the same, this is the strangest wedding
                ever?

                        MATRE'D
                In my opinion, it is.  Someone else might
                think differently.

                        LYLLA
                Well, I can hardly wait to see what happens.

                        MATRE'D
                You may not have to wait long.

                        LYLLA
                What do you mean?

                        MATRE'D
                I was told to be prepared for the wedding
                within half an hour of my welcoming remarks.

                        LYLLA
                Really?

                        MATRE'D
                So I don't expect it to be long now.  I keep
                wondering how she'll make her appearance.  I think
                I may have an idea.

                        LYLLA
                Maybe she'll drop in as a skydiver.

                        MATRE'D
                On the other hand, there's something going on down
                there.  It looks like a small procession of some
                kind.

                        LYLLA (looking out the window)
                Oh my.  Those aren't regular guests?

                        MATRE'D
                Hard to say.  We have Deadhead parties but it's
                the wrong time of year.

                        LYLLA
                Looks pretty festive down there, in a sixties sort
                of way.

                        MATRE'D
                Yes, it does.  We get a lot of refugees from the
                sixties.  They keep trying to create a nostalgic
                happening.  Sort of sad, really, that they never grew
                up.

                        LYLLA
                I think you're right - those are church people and the
                bride.

                        MATRE'D
                We'll find out soon enough, I'm sure.

                        LYLLA
                Then the wedding has a Back to Nature theme.  They
                do look like lost hippies, don't they?

                        MATRE'D
                The lost hippies of Marin County, up for a weekend
                from their six-digit day jobs.

                        LYLLA
                They must be ready to make their entrance.

                        MATRE'D
                Perhaps so.  I guess we get no Wedding March.  I
                think people should leave the traditions alone.
                How can you have the entrance of the bride without
                a wedding march?

                        LYLLA
                We may get a wedding march yet.

                        MATRE'D
                Played on kazoos or what?  They didn't ask for a
                piano.  I knew it would be a strange wedding as soon
                as I learned.  What a shame.

                        LYLLA
                I find it more amusing than shameful.  What people
                will go through to try and be "creative."

                        MATRE'D
                I believe in traditional weddings.

                        LYLLA
                I guess I don't believe in weddings much at all.

                        MATRE'D
                Really?

                        LYLLA
                Speaking personally.

                        MATRE'D
                Let me guess.  You had a bitter divorce.

                        LYLLA
                I've never been married.

                        MATRE'D
                Now that surprises me.  Never met the right man?

                        LYLLA
                End of conversation.  See you at the wedding.

        Lylla heads for A, while the captain continues to
        observe from C.

        Down on the grounds below:   TRUDY, MAXINE and WOLF in
        primitive costume "back to nature" costumes, perhpas with
        ancient animal horns, blowing strange sounds, beginning "the
        ritual of the offering of the bride."  This should take about
        three minutes (Trudy enters at 16:00).

        /ex5/ /h7/  TIME CODE: 13:00

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