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Shadow has been gifted many names.

Goblin.

Demon.

Fairy.

It is your forgotten child.

But nature will not abandon her children.

She gifts them music heard only in dream.

You can hear this music if you wish.

But you must listen beyond fear.

Beyond understanding.

Beyond shame.

Listen to the soil.

Go down into the dark and listen.

For the earth is a body, and the body is where your secrets live.

We've got to throw this power out. It is a fucking nightmare.

These old houses weren't built with electricity in mind.

Maybe I can set up a backup generator.

Yeah, but how noisy will that be?

Good point.

I feel like every time I'm getting somewhere, that's when the power just,

shits itself.

How about yesterday?

We were recording for hours.

Yeah, it was all rubbish.

Oh.

I'm a hack.

Maybe I should just go back to London for a few weeks and finish the record

there.

Hey, I'll swallow it.

I will.

Have you eaten?

No, no, I just... Look!

I know something that might change your life.

Thank you.

Are you having nightmares again?

Sorry.

Was it bad?

Yeah.

I think you should listen, Darth.

It's...

You recorded me?

Yeah.

Maybe if you heard yourself, you might remember something.

Why would I want to do that?

You want to use this on a track?

Is that what's going on?

No. Because you can if you want.

Right.

Can you stop asking me if I'm okay? It's really boring.

Sorry.

Don't you ever just want it to dissolve?

Just melt into the earth?

Thank you.

No.

What is it?

Go! Go!

What's in the house?

The oddest of ghosts is all language.

is your sex it is who is this

who is taking

What's your name?

Darcy.

How about you?

You said, our house.

Who else lives there?

My wife.

She's called Daphne.

But you have no children.

No. Not yet.

I followed the music.

You could hear that?

Oh, yes.

I haven't travelled here.

I'm sorry about that. We only moved in a few months ago and didn't think there

was anyone from Laos. Three times you've apologised already.

Well, I'd best be off. I'm really sorry about,

you know, I don't want to... Perhaps you thought I was a boob like I'm in to

boob you.

Maybe I did.

You're not, are you? Yeah.

Is that so?

Uh... What do you mean?

I'll show you.

You'll like it.

You're not scared of me, are you?

No, it's just, um... I should be getting back, you know, it's, uh...

Strange apologetic man appears in the valley.

Rugby tackling innocent children at will.

If anything, I should be afraid of you. What do you think?

Did you actually catch that? How do you catch rabbits with this?

If I'm lucky.

What if they're unlucky?

After you've caught them, then what?

I eat them, of course.

Don't you catch your own fools?

Show me how this trap of yours works.

If you want to trap a rabbit or any creature, you need to know what it's

for.

And that's what you offer.

As a gift.

And you have to mean it.

Then you just wait for the rabbit to be hungry and he traps himself.

See? The rabbit bounces along.

Diddly diddly dee.

Smells the bait.

Tammy rumbles.

Creeps onto here. But when he trips, they leave her.

between worlds.

They live underground, in barrows, in

warrens, in the dark places.

They come up and they go down with the sun, passing messages between here

and the underworld.

You catch a rabbit, you catch the message it's carrying.

What do they say?

I'm not sure I should tell you.

I won't tell anyone.

Well, the truth is, most rabbits say the same thing.

I'm not sure.

Oh, bloody gook, really.

Sorry. Sorry to wake you.

Don't worry about it.

This is one of our neighbours.

Came by with flowers and eggs this morning. That's lovely.

Actually, me and Darcy are already friends.

Are you?

Oh, yes.

We met yesterday.

We bumped into each other, didn't we?

Great for you, Dinah.

I better be off.

Don't want to be in the way.

Nonsense.

Come by any time.

Trippy kid, huh?

He's interesting.

And I think... lonely.

So be nice.

I'm not nice.

Didn't say I'm not nice.

Thank you.

Can we catch tonight?

No.

Wait till when that happens.

I just want to see what you'd look like.

In 50 years.

So handsome.

Yeah?

Happy now?

Okay.

He wants me to take him field recording.

What kind of kid wants to do that?

Yeah, he thinks you're cool.

Thinks I'm cool?

He does. That's what he wants you to teach him.

So he can be around you. He can be his cool older friend or his

fun uncle.

His fun cool.

Yeah.

Might be good for you.

Maybe.

Are you hurt?

Make sure it's a chill.

What happens when a sound dies?

Where does it go?

I don't think a sound is ever alive to begin with.

It's a vibration of an event.

The invisible shadow of an energy exchange.

Sound is a memory.

Carved into the air.

It's a ghost.

A stone.

Scared.

Lost.

A creature.

Desperate for somewhere to hide.

You're funny for a moment.

Before it fades away.

And when you hear a sound.

become its own.

Your body is the house it owns.

I caught it for you I did.

Best rabbit in the whole woods.

It's yours now.

Gorse blossom.

Is that from up front?

Yeah.

You can make tea with it.

That

is

delicious.

I knew you'd like it.

And it's good for you.

Keeps away the tired tag.

Come on.

The tallow tag?

I can't stand the stuff.

That's probably why there's so much of it around your house.

Whoever lived here before must have had troubles with them.

There's too much, so you should burn it back.

I can help if you'd like.

Is that a kind of animal?

No, they're not animals.

They're the old ones.

There aren't many left, but they're still around if you know where to look.

If you know where to listen.

But not to worry.

If you stay out of their way, they'll stay out of yours.

Probably.

Do you know a lot about local superstition?

I know about nature.

That's all.

Sorry, yeah, that's what I meant.

Will you show her?

There is a veil between this world and

fairy.

There are ways to cross this veil to find the truth that lives

there.

Music.

Toadstools.

Love.

Yeah. Sorry.

If you let the fairies in, they will guide you to the place you fear.

To the family you need.

Home.

I've seen one of these before.

You know I have.

Stop. Stop!

This is a fairy soup.

You mustn't enter.

I had a brother a long time ago.

When he was a baby, he crawled into a fairy circle.

After that, he grew faster than he should have.

He bloated up like a toad.

He did.

A few days later, he was gone.

You never saw him again?

No.

We took him further.

To Anun.

What's Anun?

The deep.

You know, woman, very little, it's...

It's hard to understand difficult things that

happen to us.

So our brains create stories to make

sense of them.

But they're just stories.

And we have to learn to let go of them.

I can tell you now.

It's me.

That's you.

Yeah. Or a version of me.

No more.

That's the real you.

You're beautiful.

Well, I used to dress like that during live shows.

Helps with the stage fright.

Not that we really do live shows anymore.

If I had a bit of time to stop touring for a while, put down some roots, get

boring.

You're one of the wild gods.

You would never be caught.

Never domesticated.

You're too precious for that.

You think so?

You're the most wonderful person I have ever met.

In my next life, I want to be you.

Why don't you have children?

Are we supposed to?

Yes.

I'll stop.

Darcy is... tainted.

That's what he believes.

Did he tell you that?

Just a feeling.

You have a wonderful mother.

I know you would.

It's a really nice thing.

It's true, though.

Oh, sorry.

You can pretend to be my mum if you'd like.

It can be a secret.

Well, wouldn't your mum get jealous if I saw you away?

She died a long time ago, so she won't mind.

She'd be happy.

Oh, I'm sorry.

It's been so long that I don't remember her face anymore.

I don't remember her voice.

It was a lullaby she sang when I was young.

You are young.

I'm much older on the inside.

Yeah, I... Yeah, I suspect you might be.

Would you like to hear it?

The lullaby?

What a day.

What time is it?

I picked these for you and Daphne.

You can put them by the bed.

Thanks.

Look, now is not a good time.

Could you come back later?

You said I would welcome any time.

We did.

But it was a figure of speech.

So it doesn't mean anything.

It just doesn't mean exactly what it says. I won't bother saying it.

Tell Daphne I'm here.

She won't see me.

No, she won't.

Daphne means what she says.

Daphne would love to see you. She would.

And how about I just... Not right now, okay?

Before I go, can I have a glass of milk?

It's an awful long way here and it's an awful long way back.

You wasted it.

Oh no.

Couldn't figure out how to skin the damn thing and then time got away from me.

So you left it to Rod.

That killed that rabbit.

I took away his life and gave it to you.

For it to become part of you.

But you've got no respect.

Leave it.

Let the place have it.

Hey. Hey.

I can see your upset.

Daphne!

Daphne!

Daphne!

What are you doing? Stop! Stop!

Stop it!

Stop it!

Stop it!

Stop it! How have you gone?

Do you believe?

No.

Done.

Don't let him hear.

I wanted to show you something.

For your music.

A special place with a special sound. I wanted to take you in.

Please don't send me away.

We're not sending you away. Why would we do that?

Because I don't belong here.

Let me get changed real quick and then you can take me to that special place.

Okay, how's that sound?

The rabbit.

Ring the rabbit.

They'll be there now in a minute.

This way.

Come on.

How did we... Where are we? Very close now.

They're waiting for us. Who?

Who's waiting for us?

The Tallow the Tag.

This is their garden.

Come along.

The widows of the wood.

They're beautiful.

I knew you'd think so.

I can ask them to sing for us if you'd like.

What do you mean by that?

Say please and I'll laugh at my sleep.

She's rotting with you.

Yes.

You don't want it spread, do you?

Stay with me.

Here.

Beneath the blankets of shadow.

And soil.

And secret.

You should fall now.

You're ready for it.

What's wrong?

Don't, don't, don't call me that.

Why not?

I'm sorry.

How can you lose your way without me?

You scared me.

I'm not scary, am I?

Do you have something you'd like to ask me?

Can you show me the way home?

to the magic word.

Please.

Go on.

That's what family's for.

The water is still warm if you want to bath too.

You should go before it gets too dark.

I can wait with you until Darcy gets home.

Yeah, it's okay. I don't need you to.

Can I have something to eat before I go?

Please, please don't go home.

But I'm hungry.

Why won't you look at me?

Are you mad at me?

Are you scared of me?

No.

So feed me.

Can I get a kiss goodnight?

Thank you.

Open the door. You need to leave.

I'll be good. I'll be good. I promise I will.

Open the door.

We don't want to hurt you.

We just need you to go.

Okay?

Yes. Is this my home?

No, no, no, no, no.

It could be.

There are

things

I haven't told you.

I gave them a name in case that made them real.

I did everything I could to forget, but my

body remembered.

into the earth.

Every fucking day.

He's burning the gauze.

He's letting them in.

You sent me away.

Don't look at me.

I won't look.

Oh, you're freezing.

Sorry. Isn't it cold?

No.

Is that better?

If you want to trap a rabbit or any creature, you need to know what it's

for.

And that's what you offer as a gift.

And you have to mean it.

Best of both means.

Once a rabbit that was afraid of the dark.

Now that's a very inconvenient thing for a rabbit to be frightened of.

Because as we all know, rabbits are supposed to live underground.

Why was the rabbit afraid of the dark?

Why do you think he was afraid?

Maybe because it looked empty.

And he was scared to be alone.

The bat.

And you know what she told him?

She said, my dear rabbit, you need not be afraid of the dark because there is

such thing.

Not for those who learn to see when they're in.

And so, Clemens did this.

And I closed my eyes and listened.

this voice coming from the deep.

From within the earth.

Not only where it was dark, but where light had never been.

A place before light.

A while.

voice and know that it is mine it is time to return home and learn the

of silence if it would bring you peace come down and

rest with me we'll let our bodies sleep and return to the silence

our flesh will crumble into the soil and our secrets will melt together

And then if we wish, over time, we will be reborn

as one creature.

A mushroom, an acorn, a hawk, or a human.

It won't matter because we'll be together.

Knowing it's over.

Cleon.

Do you have the strength to say these things in person?

Not yet.