[after Granny passes away, Lina and Poppy have to move into Mrs. Murdo's place. Mrs. Murdo shows them a clean room with a single bed]
Mrs. Murdo:
You and Poppy have to share, but I think the bed's big enough. Poppy, let's make some dinner and get your sister get settled.
[Lina, with a box of her belongings in her arms, stares unhappily at her new room]
Mrs. Murdo:
[Cut to the dinner scene, when there are rumblings from below and bits of ceiling falling from above]
Mrs. Murdo:
[Mrs. Murdo, oblivious to the destruction all around them, says to Lina:]
Do you know your part?
Lina Mayfleet:
Um, I, I think I remember it pretty well from last year.
Mrs. Murdo:
[enraptured]
Oh, the Great Day of Singing is *so* important! Ah, it lifts all of our hearts! How lucky we are.
[Mrs. Murdo is equally oblivious to the fact that Lina and Poppy are grieving for Granny]
Lina Mayfleet:
I don't feel very lucky, lately.
[Mrs. Murdo lifts a finger grandly, as though to dispense great wisdom]
Mrs. Murdo:
There's nothing to worry about.
Lina Mayfleet:
The blackouts worry everybody.
Mrs. Murdo:
Help is coming.
Lina Mayfleet:
[frowns:]
Help?
Mrs. Murdo:
Mm-hm! Who built our City, dear?
Lina Mayfleet:
The... Builders?
Mrs. Murdo:
That's right. And the Builders will come again and show us the way.
[Even Poppy looks incredulous. Lina realizes she has been talking to a crazy person, so she only nods]
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