Dust Children
- Are
- What was left of the Kregs
- Face
- A scribble
- Wear
- A box over the head, every one a different shape
- Looking for
- A body, to go back to the waking world
The film
What became of the Kregs. Narrated by Nora. Music: “Below and Above” by Jonathan Yandel. Based on Audra Yandel’s original design.
What was left of the menders
When the Kregs vanished, they did not simply go. They seemed to come apart into particles, into a fine pale dust that drifted off the roots of the Trees and into the dark. Why it happened is still not known. Kreg cannot show it; the memory is torn out.
But the dust did not stay dust. Out of it woke the Dust Children.
No face
They woke up with no face. Where a face should be there is only a scribble, a scrawl, as if someone had drawn a face and then scratched it out. So they hide it. Each one wears a box over its head with two eye holes cut in the front, and no two boxes are the same shape: tall, squat, crumpled, too small, too big.
They are child-sized, dressed in rags torn into points, and they go barefoot. They leave a little dust behind wherever they walk.
Looking for something
They wander the Reach looking for something, and what they are looking for is a body: one they could wear to go back to the waking world.
Don’t look through their eye holes for too long.
Still unknown
Whether they still share the mind the Kregs once shared, or whether each one woke alone. Whether the last Kreg knows them. What happens to someone who looks through the eye holes too long. And whose body they would take.
