EXT. ORPHANAGE-FLOWER GARDEN. MIDDAY.
A Blue Morpho butterfly flutters through a garden in the golden ethereal lighting of the sun. It flies through the air and lands on a deep red rose, crawls around, and opens its deep blue wings in front of the blood-colored rose. The Butterfly flies away and lands on the hand of a young girl, ELLA. She chuckles as it crawls around on her hand. ELLA grins.
ELLA
Why hello there, come to check the roses?
The Butterfly stops and stares at ELLA while cleaning its antennas.
The roses are my favorite too, the red is so beautiful, not that blue isn't a beautiful color, because you pull it off very well.
She hears some other children laughing, she looks over and sees two girls standing together. They lean on a wall and laugh together with hands linked. She stares at them sighs. She looks back at the butterfly.
Oh, it's ok, I got my flowers.
She smiles at her flowers, though it's weak. The bell rings. ELLA smiles.
The bell! Someone's here to adopt-
ELLA holds out her hand to the sky.
Time to go home.
The butterfly flies away into the forest, ELLA smiles as she sighs.
Home.
She hears the bell again.
Right.
All the children stand in a row, stand straight, arms at their sides, ELLA breaths in as she tightens her body to be as straight as possible. The HEADMISTRESS of the ORPHANAGE comes out with the MADAME, a woman in a deep red dress with black roses shoulder pads, cold light blue eyes that could pierce into your soul and a hood draped over her head covering her face in the darkness.
HEADMISTRESS
Take your pick, your excellency.
She looks through the children, glaring at them, shaking her head. She scoffs as she's walking, a rose catches her eye. She walks over and picks the rose, she admires it.
MADAME
Hmm good color, well-watered, healthy. Did you plant these, Headmistress?
HEADMISTRESS
No, your excellency, that one did.
She points to ELLA, ELLA's eyes widen as the MADAME walks over to her, she towers over ELLA. She kneels down to her and holds ELLA's face, she looks at her cheeks, her posture, and lastly stares into her eyes.
MADAME
Hmm good complexion, posture, healthy.
THE MADAME glares at the HEADMISTRESS who bows and takes the rest of the children away.
Do you have a name?
ELLA
Ella, your excellency.
MADAME
Hmm did you grow all of these flowers yourself?
ELLA
VOCÊ ESTÁ LENDO
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