Scene 1 · band_van_exteriorMorning. Denny's parking lot. The band is scattered around the van in various states of post-mission destruction. Chuck sits on the bumper staring at a gold brick. Jukes hasn't mov…Scene 2 · band_van_exteriorJukes's eyes open. SOLID violet. Her posture shifts — spine straight, chin up, shoulders rolling back with regal authority that doesn't belong to a punk bassist in a Denny's parkin…Scene 3 · Band Van Interior CabVivian-Jukes tears through the glovebox, finds a half-empty Jim Beam, kills it in four pulls. Then finds Shadow's emergency airplane bottles under the seat. All six gone in ninety…Scene 4 · Band Van Interior CabThe van rolls through Houston. Vivian-Jukes chain-smokes and drinks cooking sherry straight from the bottle in the passenger seat, making observations about the human world with fa…Scene 5 · band_motelroom_parkinglotGreenfield Memorial Cemetery. Dusk. Ancient oaks draping Spanish moss over crumbling headstones. Two stone mausoleums face each other across a central plot. Vivian-Jukes steps out…Scene 6 · band_motelroom_parkinglotVivian-Jukes draws sigils in the dirt with terrifying competence — patterns older and more complex than anything Jukes has ever used. Headstones vibrate. Spanish moss sways in wind…Scene 7 · band_motelroom_parkinglotVivian-Jukes drops the bass. Kneels. Plunges BOTH hands into the grave soil to the elbows. Violet energy pulses into the earth. The ground bucks. A crack splits the soil. Bone fing…Scene 8 · band_motelroom_parkinglotThe skeleton plays the first note — a low, resonant, PERFECT root tone from 1923 filtered through modern amplification. The band kicks in. Vivian-Jukes begins the invocation with J…
