Below is my first attempt at setting the scene and tone of my world. Whilst this is only a first draft, I like the ideas behind it and look forward to developing it further.

Scene one. Ext. Day. A distressed looking mother tugs a suitcase in one hand and holds her young son’s in the other. They walk hastily to a train station, the boy looking confused and anxious to help his mother. The mother shakes as she fishes around in her purse for small change, then shoves it into the ticket machine. Two tickets print. She crouches down to be on eye level with her son.

Mother: this is our ticket to freedom.

Son: where are we going?

Mother (eyes tearing up as she holds her son’s face): wherever we want to, baby

Son: dad isn’t coming?

Mother (hugging son): no. We are safe now. It’s just you and me against the world.

Son: mum?

Mother: yes?

Son: we will be okay. I have super powers.

Mother (audibly crying): that’s right Jack, I am very lucky to have you to protect me. Now don’t forget your suitcase, let’s go on an adventure, huh?

The mother ushers her son onto the first train that arrives. The train is empty but for a sleeping homeless man. Jack sits next to the window, his arm holding up his face as his mother fidgeting with their belongings next to him. As the train pulls away, black lines begin to swirl on the hand Jack’s chin is resting upon to form an image; A tall woman and a child running away from a house with a lightning bolt through it.