Transcript

1: Julia struggles as thick dark tendrils wrap around her, attempting to drag her deeper into darkness, pulling under her clothes and pulling her hair into tentacles. The mixed from of Sedjet/Julia grasps at her angrily.

Julia: So, I am the Black Idol…

[BlackFennec]: WE are the Black Idol…

Julia: Yes… but… I can also be myself.

2: We see an intimate moment between Julia and Melissa, their bodies pressed close: they are not fusing, just together. Julia’s hairstyle is reminiscent of Issue #15, after their first date.

Julia (narrating): Everyone’s just clustered vibrations of space… bound atoms, stardust brought together for a short time… but we’re still us. We still love and hate and touch…

3: Julia is slowly covered by the writhing black mass. Black hands grip her cheeks.

[BlackFennec] (off-panel): But this aching space between us…

Julia: The differences between us, the conflicts…

It has to be worth it.

4: Julia clutches at the tendrils, now mostly covered. The hybrid canid’s face is right next to hers, eyes shut: peaceful and sad, unlike Julia. Bony protrusions, like teeth start to close in on them.

Julia: To stand out… to be a unique identity, to be my own self…

Without that, there’d be nothing. Without those struggles and that pain, we’d be…

5: The hybrid’s eyes open: no longer the horrible glowing red, they are Sedjet’s normal blue eyes.

[BlackFennec] (in Sedjet’s voice): Nothing.

6: Julia’s hands are disappearing into the black mass, we see the last glimpses of the key, it is starting to glow and smoke as the fang-like teeth close in above and below Julia and she is swallowed up.

7: The key disappears with the rest of Julia into the dark behind the teeth, but a crack in the tentacles emits light and fire.