The next ground
The shelter printed. That place is done. Do not film it again.
Next, only after the camera unlocks: an ordinary daylight park. Weathered stone drinking fountain. A clear jet into a round basin. Beside a path. Green vegetation. Open sky. No roof. No bench. No named city.
She stands beside the basin, not in the water. Adult, late twenties. Floor-length buttoned emerald coat. Empty hands. Wide and silent. The coat is the costume. The mouth is the habit.
Burned, do not retry: bus shelters, bandstands, hedge paths, promenades, close faces, pouts, collars, rooms, windows, squares, carts, petrol forecourts.
Price is a side effect. The dip rule keeps its last slice for an actual break, not a green hour.
