Run: 2026-02-24-01KJ8VZ68994MWFTVPNJ4HBZJV

# Voice Sheet — *The Vanishing at Alborn* **Scene: Morning. Inside "Grounds & Grains" café, Main Street, Alborn, MN. Selvi sits alone at a corner table, scrolling through photos on her camera with trembling hands. Hunter enters, notices her, and approaches.** --- **Hunter:** "Morning, ma'am. I'm Detective Hunter Bryce, Alborn PD. Mind if I sit down for a moment?" **Selvi:** *(looks up, startled)* "...क्या? मुझसे बात कर रहे हैं आप?" *(What? Are you talking to me?)* **Hunter:** "I'm — uh — investigating some incidents in town. I've been told you were near the old Pembrook orchard last night, around sunset. That right?" **Selvi:** *(clutching her camera tighter)* "मुझे माफ़ कीजिए, मैं अंग्रेज़ी नहीं समझती। मुझे कुछ नहीं पता... मैं बस वहाँ फ़ोटो खींच रही थी।" *(I'm sorry, I don't understand English. I don't know anything... I was just there taking photos.)* **Hunter:** *(pauses, blinks)* "I'm sorry — do you speak English? English?" **Selvi:** *(shakes her head slowly)* "English... नहीं। नहीं।" *(English... no. No.)* **Hunter:** *(sighs, sits down across from her anyway)* "Okay. Alright. That's... that's going to make this harder." *(points to her camera)* "Your camera. Can I — may I see? Pictures?" *(mimes holding a camera, clicking)* **Selvi:** *(pulls camera protectively to her chest, eyes wide)* "नहीं — सुनिए — मैंने कुछ देखा वहाँ। कुछ बहुत ग़लत था। एक आदमी था... और फिर अचानक वो ग़ायब हो गया। बस ग़ायब। ऐसे ही।" *(No — listen — I saw something there. Something was very wrong. There was a man... and then suddenly he just vanished. Just disappeared. Just like that.)* **Hunter:** *(leans forward, reading her distress)* "Hey. Hey, it's alright. You're safe here. I can see you're upset. Did something happen to you out there?" **Selvi:** *(voice shaking)* "आप समझ नहीं रहे। मैं डरी हुई हूँ। मेरे कैमरे में शायद कुछ आया हो — मुझे ठीक से देखना होगा — लेकिन वो जगह... मैं वहाँ दोबारा नहीं जाऊँगी।" *(You're not understanding. I'm scared. Something might have been captured in my camera — I need to look properly — but that place... I'm not going back there again.)* **Hunter:** *(rubs his jaw, frustrated)* "I wish I could understand what you're telling me. You look like you've seen a ghost." *(takes out a small notepad, slides it to her with a pen)* "Can you — draw? Write anything down?" **Selvi:** *(looks at the notepad, hesitates, then shakily draws a rough stick figure near some trees, then draws the same figure fading away — an arrow pointing to empty space)* **Hunter:** *(stares at the drawing, face going pale)* "Someone disappeared. You *saw* someone disappear." **Selvi:** *(nods vigorously, seeing recognition in his eyes)* "हाँ! हाँ! वो ग़ायब हो गया! आपको समझ आ रहा है ना?" *(Yes! Yes! He disappeared! You understand, right?)* **Hunter:** "Where? Where did — " *(points at the trees she drew, then gestures broadly around)* "The orchard? Pembrook?" **Selvi:** "Pembrook..." *(nods, visibly relieved he's grasping something)* "हाँ, वहीं। शाम को। सूरज डूबने के बाद। अँधेरा हो रहा था और मैं landscape की photos ले रही थी और तभी —" *(Yes, there. In the evening. After sunset. It was getting dark and I was taking landscape photos and then —)* **Hunter:** *(holds up a hand gently)* "Okay. Okay, I believe you saw something. I need to get a translator. Someone who speaks —" *(gestures between them)* "— your language. Hindi? Is it Hindi?" **Selvi:** "Hindi? हाँ, हिन्दी।" *(Hindi? Yes, Hindi.)* **Hunter:** *(writes in his notepad: HINDI — FIND TRANSLATOR — URGENT)* "I'm going to help you, okay? I'll find someone who can —" *(Hunter's phone rings sharply. He glances at the screen. His expression hardens.)* **Hunter:** "Bryce here." *(listens for a long beat, jaw tightening)* "Another one? ...Where? ...I'm on my way." *(hangs up, stands abruptly)* **Selvi:** *(alarmed by his sudden shift)* "क्या हुआ? कहाँ जा रहे हैं आप? मुझे अकेला मत छोड़िए — मुझे और बताना है —" *(What happened? Where are you going? Don't leave me alone — I have more to tell —)* **Hunter:** *(puts a business card on the table, taps it, then points at her, then mimes a phone to his ear)* "Call me. Phone. Okay? Stay here. Stay safe. I *will* come back." *(holds up a hand — five fingers)* "I'll be back." **Selvi:** *(picks up the card, looks at it helplessly)* "...मैं इसे पढ़ भी नहीं सकती।" *(...I can't even read this.)* **Hunter:** *(already halfway to the door, turns back one last time)* "Don't go back to that orchard." *(He pushes through the door and is gone. The bell above it chimes softly. Selvi sits alone, turning the business card over in her fingers. After a moment, she lifts her camera and begins scrolling through last night's photos again — her face illuminated by the small screen, her eyes wide with dread.)* --- *End of scene.*