Issue 20, Page 25
Ah, memories…
Transcript
1: From Julia’s perspective in the Halloween party, we see her hand fusing into the ibex sister’s body as her breasts are bared.
2: Julia’s arm, wrapped in dark, dripping tendrils, flexes in the dark next of tentacles.
Julia: Why would I be… me?
3: Another flashback shows her hand pushing into Rhoda’s face in a similar sexual scene.
4: More tentacles glisten and writhe around Julia’s leg.
Julia: Why ever be alone?
5: A vision of her fusing and melting into Melissa, head between her legs and arms melting through Melissa’s hips.
6: Julia, naked, is helplessly tangled in a mass of black idol tentacles in the black void as they merge into her astral body and branch from her head among her hair. She looks sad.
Julia: I tried isolation. Where’d that get me?
I’m useless on my own.
Sigh. And there we go.
Not about belonging, or becoming whole, or breaking down all castle walls between us: nope.
Instead, we are on ‘I am useless on my own.’ Dammit.
… Uh… I mean, it did get you into the depths of a top-secret, high-tech research facility, where it could be proven that your… “Condition”, was no longer spreading. Heck, you could even see Mel. For all you know, the gaurds could have just freaked, shot the partially infected the very second they stepped through the portal… Man, that would have sucked!
As for being alone… That could mean as far back as when she was a kid, judging by that Naomi Rider comment young her made. Her whole life, being led up to… This. Or perhaps there’s still a part of her, regretting what’s happening now, regretting not telling Sedjet everything sooner BEFORE he turned himself over, regretting hunting for others inside the facility now.
Maybe “alone” really does just mean in a seperate body from everyone else. I still don’t trust those words as hers though. The face that was sooo insanely happy in the previous pages, is far less so now.
Maybe this will be addressed, if she does remain a wolf. Perhaps Julia has trouble acknowledging some things. Achievements. Let’s see… Survived first battle with TOWC as individual. Discovered heaps and loads of other stuff. Then, proceeded to get sucked onto the moon… Before heading onto an alien planet, traveling around, then finding her way back home…. On her own.
I hope that she does make it, as the Julia we know. However, part of me does dread, how she may act, or think, if she does come back… Lots can be done though, even when you’re alone. She made it back after all.
When you’re lost in misery, it’s real, real hard to see the light… but that’s why you have friends to help you out of the darkness.
… now the question is if she can find them again.