Cast[]
- The Linear Guild
- Tarquin ◀
- Qarr ◀ ▶
- The IFCC
- Empire of Blood Soldiers
Transcript[]
- Panel 1, Page 1
Nale and Sabine both look out of those windows.
- Panel 2, Page 1
Nale: Are you doing something different with your horns?
Sabine: Oh yeah, I made them a little shorter.
Nale: It's cute. I like it.
- Panel 3, Page 1
Sabine: I guess the fact that you noticed is a good sign, as far as your memory goes.
Nale: Yeah. It still feels a little fuzzy in places, to be honest.
- Panel 4, Page 1
Flashback to the desert.
Nale: I remember being in the desert.
Nale: Feeling the knife. Hitting the sand.
Nale: Realizing that of course this was how it was always going to end. Feeling dumb for ever thinking otherwise.
- Panel 5, Page 1
Cut to the afterlife.
Nale: And then later...you.
Nale: Flying in to pull me out of that place.
- Panel 6, Page 1
Nale: Everything else is still a blur, until we got here.
Nale: So I don't know if I ever thanked you for coming to find me.
Sabine: You did. But you're welcome.
- Panel 7, Page 1
Nale: I'm sure it wasn't easy to track down one lost soul in a plane filled with them.
Sabine: It was't. I'll...tell you the whole story some other time.
- Panel 8, Page 1
Nale: Why not now? From what you told me, my body is scattered across the desert.
Nale: I'm not going anywhere, and it's not like we need to plan for the next complicated-
- Panel 9, Page 1
Sabine tackle-hug Nale. WHOMF!
Nale: Whoa!
- Panel 10, Page 1
Sabine: Because I don't want to think about the past. Or what's next.
Sabine: I just want us to live our whole lives in this exact moment.
- Panel 11, Page 1
Nale: That sounds great, babe, but I don't know if that's going to work out. You're immortal and I'm dead.
Sabine: You know what I-
- Panel 1, Page 2
The door is pushed open. WHAM!
Lee: Hello, Sabine.
Nero: Is this a bad time?
Cedrik: We need to have a talk with your boyfriend.
Sabine: AAAAAA!!
- Panel 2, Page 2
Nale: Sabine?!?
Sabine: I'm fine, I'm fine.
Sabine: Direct supervisor jumpscare.
D&D Context[]
- Given its completely gray appearance and the effect it had on Nale's memory, the location that Sabine rescued Nale's soul from appears to be the River Styx flowing through the first layer of Hades (also known as the Gray Waste), the Neutral Evil Afterlife.
Trivia[]
- Panel 4, Page 1 is the flashback of the scene in #913, Panel 11, Page 2.
- This is the latest appearance of:
- General Tarquin, Elan's father, was last seen lamenting the unsatisfying ending to his story arc in #936, End of the Line. He appeared in 95 strips overall, being first introduced in #50, The Semi-Secret Origin of Elan & Nale.
- In the last panel Nero and Cedrik are speaking each in the voice of other.
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