Transcript:
1: Julia pushes Melissa on her wheelchair down the path to the door of their home.
2: Once inside, Melissa is greeted by Kas and the two eagerly reconnect.
3: Looking over the shoulder of Kas’s hug, Melissa perks up.
4: Lucian (the otter from issue 10) is sat on the couch near Eric, Melissa’s father. Eric is slowly getting to his feet and looks thin and sick
5: The two embrace, eagerly but carefully.
6: A close-up of Melissa, her head leaned onto her father’s shoulder, starting to tear up.
Why is/was she in a wheelchair?
Standard hospital procedure. I’ve had to deal with it sometimes. For some types of visits, they just insist that they take you to the parking lot in a wheel chair, even if you can walk just fine.
Oh, actually, it says that they’re at her home, soo… I don’t actually know. Weird.
I mean, using a wheelchair isn’t always about ‘I can NEVER walk properly’, it could be ‘I can walk just fine in short bursts, but a long walk across the city would be too much’
On the previous page, she leapt out of the wheelchair to pounce on Julia. That’s why I thought this was just her being wheeled out of the hospital like they often require.
The transcript specifically calls it HER wheelchair. I might be overinterpreting this, but that doesn’t spell “loaner that shall get returned to the hospital later in the same day” to me.
I sincerely hope this spurs Eric’s will to get better.
Lucian! What a normal character…