(a beautiful, well-appointed apartment.)

DREG: Most beauteous and supremely magnificent one, this dark spell I hold in my worthless and scabby hand is our gift to you, most tingly and wonderful Glorificus...

GLORY: (trying on a shoe) Please, call me Glory. And get up, looking at you is hurting my neck.

DREG: (gets up) Forgive me, shiny special one. I beg of you to rip out my inadequate tongue.

GLORY: (reaches out her hand) Gimme.

(Dreg grins and walks forward, sticking out his tongue. Glory waits till he's close enough and then grabs the scroll. )

DREG: Oh. (laughs nervously) I thought... You should know, your elaborate marvelousness, that this dark incantation has been lost for eons...

GLORY: Uh-huh. (trying on another shoe)

DREG: And great dangers have been faced to...

GLORY: (sticking her leg straight up in the air) Does this pump make my ankle look bony?

DREG: No! No, no, your terrifically smooth one, it is the epitome of ankles. To touch such an ankle would be - but I'm not touching. I'm backing away.

(Glory kicks out her foot and the shoe flies off it, hitting Dreg in the forehead.)

DREG: Ow! Thank you.

GLORY: Dreg, is it? (Gets up)

DREG: Yes. Dreg. Your creamy coolness has honored me by speaking my name. Your voice is like a thousand sweet songbirds that-

GLORY: (irritated) Yeah, I never tire of hearing that. Look, just so we're clear, the spell's gonna work, right?

(Dreg nods anxiously. Glory turns and goes to the window, peeking around the curtain)

GLORY: I mean, nothing worse than a gift that doesn't work. Then I'd have to get all mad and kill you! (apologetically) It's this whole big thing.

DREG: It will work, your extremeness. Provided you have the other items you need.

GLORY: Don't worry. I'll have them all right.

(She walks past him to where a copy of the phone book is sitting open to the page with Giles' ad. She tears out the page and smiles at it.)

GLORY: I'll have it all.

written by: David Fury; Transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com).. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/86shadow.html