Issue 19, Page 17
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1: Elevator doors open with a ding. Sedjet is behind them, wearing the same shirt from the previous scene.
2: Alone, he walks down the hallway towards Julia’s holding area that Melissa used earlier.
3: He sits, beyond the window seems to be empty.
4: He hitts the intercom button.
Sedjet: Julia?
Are you there?
5: The view reversed, we see that Julia his hidden just out of sight: curled up just below view of the window into the room, holding herself tightly.
Now be smart Ahmes, don’t go into the seemingly empty room to check on her…
I don’t think he will and she will get OUT!!!!! then it will turn into “Screaming, Eating and dying…” but I hope I am dead wrong….
So in this situation, with what this facility and these people deal with, how much of a bumblefuck dipshit does Ahmes have to be to do anything other than wait like a sane person? That room should be hermetically sealed. If Julia was capable of escaping she would have done it by now. Please don’t tell me Ahmes is going to turn into a rock-chewing moron out of nowhere.
I had not even considered that as a possibility.
All right, people often undershoot my expectations, but THAT would be so huge an Idiot Ball to pick up that Atlas would quit groaning about his own burden.
They have cameras installed in that room, he KNOWS that she’s in there.
Pretty sure asking, “Julia, are you there” is more for her benefit; it’s probably intended to help her open up by pretending that she might be away; similar to asking a mental patient who has a habit of hiding hides, ‘are you there?’
This may be a positive sign; the radiation shielding may be allowing her to ‘stabilize’ faster, allowing her to attempt complex planning again.
I’m more worried that she wants him REALLY close to that window for something… hazardous to his mental or physical health.
I’m also curious: if the radiation shielding IS aiding in stabilizing her new form, I wonder what might happen with chronic exposure if she leaves.