Scene 7 p.51

DONKEY

Shrek! I hear a roar! Shrek! I am two seconds away from leaving you here! This place is creepy!

(Six KNIGHTS with long beards are chained. Bits of rusted armour hang off them. They’ve been here a long time)

KNIGHT 1

You don’t know the half of it.

DONKEY

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

KNIGHT 2

Sorry! Oh hey, it’s a new guy!

KNIGHT 3

We haven’t had a new guy in a couple of years!

KNIGHT 4

Shhhh! You don’t want to wake her up.

KNIGHT 5

She gets really, really mad.

DONKEY

Who are you talking about? Who are you people?

KNIGHT 6

We’re knights! We came to rescue the princess.

KNIGHT 1

From lands far, far away. We made the long journeys too.

KNIGHT 2

And we were also all alone, on our own.

KNIGHT 3

Just like you.

KNIGHT 4

None of us made it, though.

KNIGHT 5

We’re deemed the lucky ones. Everyone else she incinerated.

KNIGHT 6

She keeps us around because we sing backup!

DONKEY

What?

(DONKEY turns around and comes face to face with the DRAGON.)

Dragon!? I’m outta here.

(#17 – FOREVER begins.)