Random Woman Thinks

What's the play? asks Elodie.

Candide's Garden, says Belle. A follow up.

Wow! says Elodie. What's the story? Or is it a secret?

Dunno. Is it? asks Sweezus.

No, says Vello. Run it by her. I'd like to gauge her reaction.

Okay, says Sweezus. It's set in a garden. Suddenly vroom! a sinkhole appears in the garden. There's a stink bug running round at the bottom.

Me, says Terence. And some bees.

Elodie looks at Terence in his orange leggings with a black rear button, and his orange hat with the eyebrows.

You remind me of someone, says Elodie. Take the hat off.

No, says Terence.

So the old lady rings up Gardening Australia and speaks to Costa, says Sweezus. Arthur plays Costa.

With the whiskers, says Elodie.

Yeah. But Costa doesn't come. So they start their own sunken garden. Using string lines. But the old lady trips on the string lines.

You left us out, says Celia.

Sweet. You've got real birds in it, says Elodie.

Yes, says Celia. At first I played brother Giroflée, but Saint Roley wanted the hood to balance his nose.

Beak, says Saint Roley.

Nose, says Celia.

So now you're....? asks Elodie.

Paquette, says Celia. I order a box of oranges. And then it's fifteen years in the future.

Fast paced, says Elodie.

It's because oranges take fifteen years to produce if you grow them from seed, says Gaius.

And I'm dead, says Terence. So I'm a grandchild. I'm called Baby Stink Bug. And before, I was Grandpa Marx Stink Bug.

So how does it end? asks Elodie.

Still working on it, says Sweezus.

I have an idea, says Sikong Shu. Costa turns up.

Sweezus knows where that came from.

It's a ruse, to bring Arthur back.

Fifteen years later, says Sweezus, Costa turns up, and he's still on Gardening Australia, and he wants to do a show about the sunken garden, because sunken gardens are cool.

And can now produce oranges due to climate change, says Belle. Might as well say that.

Always good to be topical, says David.

What does the random young woman think? asks Vello.

Meaning me? says Elodie. I'd pay to see it.

Excellent says Vello. How much?

Up to ten dollars, says Elodie. Where is it showing?

A tent, says David. Some tent or other.... where is it, Belle?

Not an actual tent, says Belle. There were none left. It's a corner of the Botanical Gardens. We've got permission to dig our own sink hole, as long as we fill it in again.

She expects an explosion from Vello, who never liked digging.

But Vello stays cool.