Issue 7, Page 10
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1: The large chest is pulled out from between the suitcases.
2: Ikal and the Jocelyn look down into it as the chest is opened, glowing slightly from inside. Ikal looks wide-eyed.
3: Inside the chest are eggs: spherical eggs in a gel, held under glass.
Jocelyn (off-screen): These are the illegitimate children of those of us who went to explore your civilization on the eastern coast.
When our new queen escaped, she took the colony’s eggs with her… These might be the only children left that are still safe.
Ikal (off-screen): Are these… yours, Jocelyn?
Jocelyn (off-screen): …Yes.
4: Ikal has a hand on his head and looks astounded as all this fully sinks in.
Ikal (narrating): Now, a more educated, less liquored-up, man woulda had more questions. He woulda figured out where she was from, that she wasn’t from this planet. A less addle-headed man woulda remembered all those stories he read about strange flyin’ boats in the sky and those maps of Mars.
Instead, all I could get out of my god damn beak was:
Ikal: …Gosh.
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