"Northern Sky"

Janice sets up and then makes herself comfortable on a picnic blanket. She's waiting for a few friends to join her for lunch. While she waits she watches the people around her. 

Janice: (sighs heavily) "I never felt magic crazy as this." It feels more calm than anything I have felt in the last four years. When I look up at the night sky I can see everything clearly again. Sadly, "I never saw moons" while the world seemed to be falling apart. There's hope and I now "[know] the meaning of the sea" the meaning of everything again. I feel unstoppable.

Sure "I never held emotion in the palm of my hand" or on my sleeve, but it can't surprise anyone that I've been hiding it all not knowing what would happen or if we'd have the same for years. Now I won't stop myself. I'll have "felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree."  I'll climb trees again. This makes no sense. When are they getting here.

Shanny, wearing a mask, approaches Janice. Janice puts a mask on before Shanny joins her.

Shanny: Is it just us?

Janice: It's been simply me for a bit. "But now you're here" I can stop talking to myself. 

Shanny: I haven't seen someone I know if 4 months. Just looking at your face for now will "brighten my northern sky." Sorry if I stare.

Janice: That's great praise coming from you. This whole pandemic is getting to me now. It's "been a long time that I'm waiting" for real in person conversations. 

Shanny: There's only so much that Zoom can solve. Jack and I found that out the hard way.

Janice: Wait what? Your relationship has "been a long" one "that I'm blown" away you're no longer together. 

Shanny: It's "been a long time that I've wandered" in my mind. Strayed from our relationship, but ultimately we found out we have very different approaches to the pandemic.

Janice: You both live alone, couldn't you have lived together for a while.

Shanny: I have been really conscious of where I go. Jack went to restaurants and bars as soon as they temporarily opened up full capacity. I wasn't going to take any chances with him. He was always with his friends, who had god knows what habits. Or lack of them. I wasn't going to get sick "through the people I have known."

Janice: "Oh." I'm so sorry and glad I know now. 

Shanny: "If you would" not tell the others when they arrive. There are a couple of people who can't know yet.

Janice: "And you could" do me a favor? 

Shanny: Sure.

Janice: Pass me the red?

Shanny: Always.

Shanny and Janice start laughing as Shanny passes Janice the bottle and opener.

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