INANNA appears on a dirt bike. FRIEND
Hey INANNA
What? FORAGER
Hello INANNA
Fuck off. FRIEND
You ok? FORAGER lies down sensuously, softly, into the forest floor, face down. INANNA
Do you see this place? FRIEND
… yea. INANNA
Fuck this place. I am not ok as long as this place is here. FRIEND
Why? INANNA
It thinks it can just reach up into the heavens. Doesn’t bow. FRIEND
…Ok… INANNA
Fuck you. FRIEND
Woh, ok, hey, it’s all cool we’re cool. INANNA
What are they doing? FRIEND
Them? INANNA
Yeah. FRIEND
They’re foraging. INANNA
Why? FORAGER
Food systems. INANNA
What about them? FORAGER (muffled)
They’re broken. FRIEND
Alternative food sources, you know, as a rolling reeking resistance, to, you know, the state. INANNA
Nuts? Berries? FORAGER
Mushrooms. Nuts, those are pleasant pleasure proper protein, yes. Always fun to find berries. Apples. Seaweed, when we go over that way. Maple syrup. The wild rice harvest. Interesting shaped pieces of wood- INANNA
You found those things here? FORAGER(sitting up gently)
I found truffles- INANNA
What are truffles? FORAGER
Underground mushrooms. INANNA
I’m not into underworld stuff. It’s dirty. I can’t go there. FORAGER
Underground. INANNA
Underworld is my sister’s. Ereshkigal's. I don’t know it. FORAGER
Underground mycelium networks, that produce mushrooms. Connect trees.. INANNA
There is a mirroring between what is down there and what is up here. A tree grows freely while it stands, but once it falls- FRIEND
It rots! FORAGER
It should rot. INANNA
It becomes an expression of underneath. It is... no longer free. Ereshkigal rules it. Do you know this underground world? FORAGER
I know about mushrooms? INANNA
What’s the point in this? FORAGER
This is your state of mind. You don't know how to act apt accept here. It’s nature that’s telling us how to be here. It’s the toad. It’s the spider. It’s the crab. It’s the butterfly. It’s the birds. It’s the bee… INANNA
Burn it all down. It’s hopeless anyway. FORAGER
No- INANNA
No one says no to me. FORAGER
I'm not saying no to you. INANNA
I could smash you to pieces- FORAGER
This is just you pushing against the world. What’s making you do that. Inner inside you. INANNA
I am Inanna. I have wandered far through sunlight, through starlight. I the goddess, am roaming heaven and roaming around earth. Roaming Elam and Subir. Roaming the Lulubi mountains, and I now am turning to the heart of this mountain. Young Forager, do you not fear me? FRIEND
The wind is rising. INANNA
That is just the beginning. /You shall know my strength. FRIEND
Is there a storm /coming? FORAGER
What about your softness? INANNA
I’m going to kill the mountain. INANNA out. Lions bound after her, frightening FORAGER & FRIEND. FRIEND
Lion! FORAGER
Two! Lady! There’s lions - lady! FRIEND
Lady! (beat) They - you think they were tracking her? FORAGER
They - they didn’t seem - so interested in us. FRIEND
I’ve never seen lions before. FORAGER
Thought I’d seen their paw print padding. FRIEND
Could they - were they - with - wonder with her? FORAGER
You smell those things? But they looked - soft.. FRIEND
..silky.. FORAGER
..no bloody maw brutal claw, no,
FRIEND ..air lions
FORAGER
La la la lions laughing lumbering loping FRIEND
there was Yvain’s lion, lion in the darkness, lions with Daniel, lions in the zoo, once there was a man with a lion tattoo!

SONG: DILLY DILLY COME AND BE KILLED