Velothiid Come #1 - Page 5
Art by Misha Pabor
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PANEL 1: HOSPITAL ROOM - “NIGHT”
The Elder Mer is being put back to bed by the Nurse and Doctor, reaching towards the Temple Priest. > > ELDER MER > > Hear me! I owe you too much… kaff...
- > ELDER MER > > ...yet I have nothing to leave you… save insight.
- > ELDER MER > > “The lover is the highest country and a series of beliefs. He is the sacred city bereft of a double.”
PANEL 2: BATTLE SCENE - “NIGHT”
Everything is green. Two heavily robed Mer(?), in the same manner as the Temple Priest, look down on the reader.
> ELDER MER (O.S.) > > HWAKK KAFF KAFF KAFF... hurts.
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> ELDER MER (O.S.) > > Be the Lover! Read the word of Vivec!
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> TEMPLE PRIEST (O.S.) > > Gathal…
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> ELDER MER (O.S.) > > It’s all there! The end is near! READ THE BOOOOOK!
PANEL 3: HOSPITAL ROOM - “NIGHT”
The Temple Priest is sitting down, opens the Lessons of Vivec.
> ELDER MER > > REEEAAD!
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> TEMPLE PRIEST > > Sermon…
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> TEMPLE PRIEST > > Sermon Thirty Five:
PANEL 5: HOSPITAL ROOM - “NIGHT”
Close up on the Temple Priest. The background is the window and outside we see the sprawling metropolis, Pulse Plaza.
> TEMPLE PRIEST > > “This is the love of God and he would show you more: predatory but at the same time instrumental to the will of critical harvest, a scenario by which one becomes as he is, of male and female, the magic hermaphrodite.
PANEL 6: PULSE PLAZA - “NIGHT”
Skyscrapers and mechanical, single passenger cliffracers dot the skies.
> TEMPLE PRIEST (O.S.) > > “Mark the norms of violence and it barely registers…
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> TEMPLE PRIEST (O.S.) > > “...suspended as it is by treaties written between the original spirits...”