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A woman is lying face down on a bed, her back bare, a sheet covering her from the waist down. A man’s hands are massaging her bare from off-screen. Soft, romantic music plays in the background
The woman moans and sighs contentedly.
WOMAN: Have you got any protection?
She sighs
Camera pans up to the curtains in her room. The music stops, replaced by loud metallic screeching and banging noises.
The camera pans back down to the woman and man lying in bed, wearing full body personal protection equipment, including body suits, medical face masks, surgical hair coverings, plastic face shields, and nitrile gloves.
Man: (whispering) You got the stuff?
The woman opens a bottle of antibacterial hand gel and squirts some on their gloves. They rub the hand gel vigorously over the entire surface of the gloves. Soft, romantic music resumes.
Fade to: white text on black screen: Get your Masque on!
Fade to: the woman and man stand opposite each other on the bed. The man holds out a measuring stick and touches it to her chest. She shrugs.
In Terre d’Ange, the highest commandment is to “Love as Thou Wilt”. Of course, this can be interpreted in many ways. Some of us love friends and family, in the everyday mundane tasks that such an endeavor requires. Some of us love money and all the privileges that brings us. We can love and strive for justice, knowledge, the healing of others, the beauty of art, timeless perfection, pride, strength, or desire. There is no requirement to love only one or even only of few of these attributes. Of all of the loves, we at House Orchis remind that there is one that we often neglect, love of ourselves. I contend that joy and laughter is no less than to do anything for the love of ourselves.