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| Grayling - Sunday, June 8, 2008 - Page 688 | [[Abe is shown alone with a look of determination]] Abe (to Morse): You're not going in there alone. I'm coming with you.
/ [[Morse frowns, raising a brow]] Morse: I have no idea how "delicate" Rhodes is now. He might not want to see any of his... Creations.
/ [[Abe and Morse face off in profile]] Abe:... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080608 |
| Grayling - Monday, June 9, 2008 - Page 689 | [[Fern sleeps on the floor]]
/ [[Cal walks in with one hand to his head. His eyes are closed and he looks fatigued]]
/ [[Cal takes off his coat as he speaks to a closed-eyed Fern]] Cal: Fern? Are you awake? / Fern: Am now. http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080609 |
| Grayling - Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - Page 690 | [[Fern and Cal sit on the floor. Fern has one hand in his pocket and his legs are crossed. Cal rests his elbows on bent knees. He looks at Fern as he speaks.]] Cal: Lem went back to be with Darcy. The others are working on finding food. Do you want anything? I'll get it for you. / Fern: Mm. No thanks.... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080610 |
| Grayling - Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - Page 691 | [[Fern turns his eyes to Cal as he makes a dismissive motion with his hand]] Fern: You just reconciled with your brothers and you want to get riled up about something else? Give it a rest, Cal.
/ [[Cal leans forward, hands on the floor between his knees]] Cal: No, I need to do this. I want to take you... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080611 |
| Grayling - Thursday, June 12, 2008 - Page 692 | [[Cal looks surprised]] Cal: You want me to fight with you more often? / Fern (off-panel): Not... exactly. Maybe I'm not saying this right.
/ [[Fern sits with his arms crossed on his knees, looking away at the floor]] Fern: Healthy relationships involve a certain amount of arguing. They don't involve...... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080612 |
| Grayling - Friday, June 13, 2008 - Page 693 | [[Cal stands with one arm crossed and the other held up with hand covering his face]] Cal: *sniff*
/ [[Fern looks remorseful. He looks at Cal from the corner of his eye.]] Fern: Look, Cal.
/ [[Cal stares down as he wipes his nose with the back of his hand.]] Fern (off-panel): Let's stop. You probably... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080613 |
| Grayling - Saturday, June 14, 2008 - Page 694 | [[Rae sits alone, staring at an off-panel Cal and Fern with an interested expression.]] Viv (off panel): Rae? / Fola (off panel): Rae, don't stare at them, they're trying to talk.
/ [[Fola, Rae, and Viv stand together. Viv looks at Rae.]] Viv: You want to eat with us? / Rae: Yeah, sure.
/ [[An empty... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080614 |
| Grayling - Sunday, June 15, 2008 - Page 695 | [[Rae absentmindly strokes Smoke in melcey form.]] May (off-panel): Why the long face, Rae?
/ [[A shot of May, with bright blue eyes, listening to Rae.]] Rae: I'm just thinking about Mid. I wish he was here, at least.
/ [[Rae sits and looks at the ground between his knees. Melcey-Smoke rests against his... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080615 |
| Grayling - Monday, June 16, 2008 - Page 698 | [[A small black square rests in the top of the panel. It grows progressively larger in stages until it is a large, long rectangle at the bottom. As the square grows we can see it is full of both straight and waving lines, all in shades of black.]] http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080616 |
| Grayling - Tuesday, June 17 - Page 697 | [[A large, nearly-black rectangle is filled with vertical curving stripes. It resembles the folds of an ebony fabric.]] Cal (off panel): When I was born, I don't know how long I was in the dark. http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080617 |
| Grayling - Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - Page 698 | [[A long, slender white foot drops down in the murky rectangle, disturbing the ebony lines]] Cal (off-panel): I don't even know how I got the idea that I existed. I suppose it's bound to happen to anything that thinks. But I remember that my earliest wish was that if I existed, that others would exist... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080618 |
| Grayling - Thursday, June 19, 2008 - Page 699 | Cal: But before everything started, I was afraid.
/ I knew that the hunger I felt could be limitless.
/ That I might not be able to control myself if I started damaging what had been previously perfect. / Cal: But knowing all this,
/ I went ahead and did it anyway. http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080619 |
| Grayling - Friday, June 20, 2008 - Page 700 | [[Cal, half off-panel, holds onto a resisting May. Both are ghostly white against the black and dark gray background.]] Cal (speaking from the present): I awoke my sister to the fact we existed. Everything that was born after us didn't need to be told. I regret it. It hurt her. She was so much like our... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080620 |
| Grayling - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - Page 701 | [[Shoulder-up sillhouettes of Lem and Rae stand together.]] Cal (off-panel): Then we had a world, and my brothers grew up, and I thought that surely, what I was scared of would happen with them. But it didn't. I waited, but it didn't happen.
/ [[Cal's long face with short, dishevelled hair and brilliant... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080621 |
| Grayling - Sunday, June 22, 2008 - Page 702 | [[A bust portrait of Fern in bright red.]] Cal (speaking off panel): Then you came along. You cared about me, you didn't want to be apart from me. You returned all of my feelings. We took care of each other and tolerated many things. But I was there from the beginning. I knew that all of the usual romantic... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080622 |
| Grayling - Monday, June 23, 2008 - Page 703 | [[A nearly-dark rectangle with black stripes running down it.]] Cal (off-panel): But just like I had done in the beginning, even though I knew it was wrong, I did it anyway. I was sick of being alone .
/ [[A blank panel]] Cal: And for a time, I felt like I could do it. Things went well.
/ [[Fern slumped... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080623 |
| Grayling - Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - Page 704 | [[A bright red-orange portrait of Fern, smiling in glasses, fills the center of the panel.]] Cal (off-panel): I relied entirely on you for my peace of mind. That wasn't right. The moment you came into my life, I should have started trying to make other friends. I didn't, because I was afraid. But you... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080624 |
| Grayling - Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - Page 705 | [[Cal stands over Fern, who has collapsed from drunkenness. Cal has a deep-set brow with a complex expression of longing, melancholy, and scheming.]] Cal (referring back): Your independence was something I had never encountered either. You thought for yourself, made your own decisions. You obeyed me... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080625 |
| Grayling - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - Page 706 | [[Cal sulks under long, shaggy bangs. His bright blue eyes stare at the ground.]] Cal (speaking of his past self): I was responsible, too. Rae and I were hurting you, your work was hurting you. It wasn't as if you lacked reason to drink. So I blamed myself and tried to turn a blind eye. You seemed in... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080626 |
| Grayling - Friday, June 27, 2008 - Page 707 | [[Cal stands behind Fern, looking down at him over Fern's shoulder. Fern, drawn in bright red with yellow eyes, looks away.]] Cal (referring to the past): But you abandoned me by drinking. You abandoned everything, especially yourself. Disillusionment? Is that even enough of a word? I should have been... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080627 |
| Grayling - Saturday, June 28, 2008 - Page 708 | [[Fern, colored only in orange-red, sleeps.]] Cal (off-panel and in the future): I found myself loathing everything about you. I was always awake with insomnia. I hate your peacefully slumbering face. I hated how you'd made me take backseat to an inanimate object. For the first time I understood what... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080628 |
| Grayling - Sunday, June 29, 2008 - Page 709 | [[A series of four thin, vertical panels. The first is Cal seen profile, his eyes covered in black hair.]] Cal (speaking from the future): I was wrong about it all. Nerve has nothing to do with it.
/ [[A hand holding a shovel.]] Cal: In fact, it's a supreme state of numbness,
/ [[A splatter of red at... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080629 |
| Grayling - Monday, June 30, 2008 - Page 710 | [[Cal stands staring at the ground. His arms, shins, and feet are covered in blood, as is the ground around him. The handle of a shovel rests on the floor.]] Cal (speaking of the past): In those moments after I'd cracked your skull with the flat of the shovel, I enjoyed a total detachment from reality.... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080630 |
| Grayling - Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - Page 711 | [[A dark rectangle.]]
/ [[Fern looks down with raised brows and a look of grim discovery on his face.]] Fern: So that's why you wouldn't talk about it. It felt that good. http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080701 |
| Grayling - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - Page 712 | [[Cal and Fern are sitting. Cal covers his face with one hand, while the other runs through his hair. Fern scoots closer to Cal.]] Cal: Afterwards was a different story. I shook so much, I thought I would just... crumble away.
/ [[A close-up of Cal. He still has one hand on his forehead, dark black hair... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080702 |
| Grayling - Thursday, July 3, 2008 - Page 713 | [[Fern's expression becomes more gentle.]] Fern: That being said, thank you for telling me. Consider your half of the deal fulfilled.
/ [[Fern's hand, coming from a gray sleeve, presses on top of Cal's.]] Fern: Stop pawing at your face.
/ [[Fern and Cal link arms, though both have glum expressions.]]... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080703 |
| Grayling - Friday, July 4, 2008 - Page 714 | [[Cal, as seen over his right shoulder, looks thoughtful]] Fern (not seen): To start with, what do you want from me? / Cal: Want from you...? / Fern: We've been talking about the past, but you can't feel the same now. What do you want now?
/ [[Cal looks down.]] Cal: I don't... Well, I would like it if... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080704 |
| Grayling - Saturday, July 5, 2008 - Page 715 | [[Fern grabs Cal's arms and leans in.]] Fern: I can't promise I won't ever drink again because that's not realistic. But it still feels hypocritical for me to say this. Cal, you can't ever hurt anyone like that again, ever. There's no quarter here. Not me, not anyone. Don't promise me; promise yourself.... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080705 |
| Grayling - Sunday, July 6, 2008 - Page 716 | [[Fern looks over at Cal who is staring at the ground in profile.]] Fern: Hmmn.
/ [[A view of Cal and Fern's backs. Fern sits close and wraps his arm around Cal.]] Fern: It'll be all right. http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080706 |
| Grayling - Monday, July 7, 2008 - Page 717 | [[An empty box with a black border]] Cal: Fern? / Fern: Yeah? / Cal: Do you ever wish that we were innocent again? That none of this had ever happened?
/ [[Another empty panel, this one surrounded by a red border]] Fern: What, so we could do it all over again? I don't think so. Innocence is overrated.... http://grayling.arborwin.com/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20080707 |
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