FADE IN:


EXT. DESERT - NIGHT

It's the high desert of Southern California.  A place that can
be 120 degrees in summer and have snow on the cactus in winter.

A coyote howls in the distance; its mournful cry is picked up
and echoed by others.

Overhead is nature's light show.  Away from the artificial
lights of the city, the moon and stars shine almost impossibly
bright.

And as an added bonus, there's a meteor shower tonight.  The
trails glow across the sky for only a few seconds each, but they
are memorable in their beauty.

A bit unusual...one of the flashes appears as a point instead of
a trail.  It's coming into the atmosphere instead of just across
it.

A short time later, a red-hot meteorite creates a crater in the
sand where it impacted.

The meteorite is small, maybe ten centimeters across.  As it
cools, it becomes highly reflective.  Soon it looks like a small
puddle of mercury sitting in the crater, then it's absorbed into
the sand.

The moon continues its travels across the sky and eventually
shines down on a small growth in the bottom of the crater.  The
growth is visibly increasing in size.

By morning it looks like a single ear of corn, growing upright,
still in its husk, a spill of reddish-brown hair coming out at
the top.

The strange part of it is the husk is a swirl of green and
purple and brown.

Oh yeah...and it's six feet tall.

There is apparently some movement inside the husk and suddenly
two hands appear out the top.  They are smooth and delicate and
it isn't long before the hands stretch up to their full reach,
exposing matching forearms.

The arms spread apart which splits open the husk, and the hands
start to pull the husk away.  Bit by bit, these actions reveal a
beautiful young lady inside the husk.  Long reddish-brown hair
falls below her shoulders.

Her feet are attached inside the bottom of the strange plant.
She pulls them up one at a time, her toes appear more as torn-
off roots than as toes.

Freed from her cocoon, she pulls some of the lining from the
inside of the husk.  It's silky and flowing and has the same
green-purple-brown colors as the husk.

She wraps and ties this lining about her body to create simple
clothing.  Satisfied with the results, she walks off into the
seemingly-endless desert, away from the rising sun.


                                                   FADE TO BLACK.


                             The End