✦ EPISODE 1: “When the Sky Bled Fire” ✦
Theme: The spark of awakening
Scene Count: 10 (600 words each) + Poetic Sections (2,100 words total)
Scene 1 — “Ashes in the Clouds”
The opening image: skies burning over the Gulf Coast. Red lightning forks across the atmosphere. Every prison gate in America swings open—without warning, without force. Chaos erupts.
Scene 2 — “James Wakes in the Dark”
In a solitary cell buried in Louisiana, James Blackman is mid-dream: a crown of stars, a bleeding sword, voices chanting his name. He wakes up sweating. A soft click—his cell door opens. No guards. Only silence.
Scene 3 — “The Governor Falls”
Across the country, the President collapses during a live broadcast. A dark force briefly overtakes him—a possession? Loki is hinted at. The government hides the footage. Panic blooms.
Scene 4 — “Meanwhile, in Gao”
Salame kneels in ritual, deep in a hidden grove in West Africa. The leaves burn but do not consume. She opens her eyes. “It’s time,” she whispers, already knowing what’s begun.
Scene 5 — “Escape or Return?”
James steps out of the prison alone. He’s the only one who isn’t running. He walks calmly, as if he’s been waiting for this moment for lifetimes. He takes nothing with him—but everything is already his.
Scene 6 — “The Frequency Code”
Kahina, in a red-lit underground chamber in the catacombs of Paris, listens to the static of the world. She hears the frequency shift. Her body begins to change. She is, again, becoming.
Scene 7 — “The Return of the Forgotten”
Ghosts walk in cities—former slaves, warriors, goddesses, emperors. People see them but think it’s a mass hallucination. In truth, the veil between time and memory is lifting. The Unburying has begun.
Scene 8 — “James Looks to the Stars”
He stares at the night sky from a rooftop in New Orleans. The constellations have moved. A new star has appeared. He remembers holding that star in his hand once.
Scene 9 — “The Prophecy Rewrites Itself”
In a Vatican vault, an ancient prophecy scroll bleeds ink, rewriting itself in tongues no longer spoken. A forgotten priestess stirs in the crypt below.
Scene 10 — “The First Gate Opens”
In Harlem, a corner preacher screams about the return of the old gods. A tear in reality forms behind him. James walks into it without flinching.
500-Word Poem: “The Unburying”
We buried fire beneath names.
We buried names beneath time.
We buried time beneath lies.
But fire always remembers.
1,500-Word Dante-Inspired Opening Poem:
A poetic myth of James’s soul wandering the Infernal Planes of the Mind before finding the gate that leads back to Earth—where he must become fire again.
600-Word Stoic African Reflection (in Alex’s voice):
On the power of remembering who you are, even when the world profits from your forgetfulness.
Would you like me to move on and expand EPISODE 2: “The Bones Remember” in the same format next? Or shall we slightly adjust anything before continuing?