PAGE ONE
Panel 1
We’re back at the funeral of Jerome. Now we’re at the cemetery as the casket is being lowered into the ground, and we can see Sonny, Adam Hemingway, Etta Hemingway, Tobias O’Brien, the Duke, even the ten year old girl and her father (off in the distance, naturally), and somewhere near those two, another ten year old, a black girl named Sam Lane...fighting a grown man. This is a large panel that’s nearly the whole page.
Panel 2
A close-up of Adam Hemingway looking, annoyed, in the direction of Sam Lane’s activities.
Panel 3
A hand is being placed on Sam’s shoulder as she looks at it, even though she continues fighting the grown man.
SAM LANE: What the...?
PAGE TWO
Panel 1
The man Sam was fighting runs off.
Panel 2
Sam angrily turning her full attention to, as it turns out, Sonny.
SAM LANE: Now look what you did!
SAM LANE: He’s getting away!
Panel 3
Sonny crouching down to Sam’s level, a look of utter compassion on his face.
SONNY: I see that.
SONNY: I saw what he was doing, how you stopped him.
SONNY: I was over there. Attending a very important funeral.
SONNY: What’s your name?
Panel 4
A close-up of a doubtful, wary Sam.
Panel 5
Pulling back to see both of them again.
SAM LANE: Sam.
SAM LANE: Sam Lane.
PAGE THREE
Panel 1
Sonny and Sam are walking through the cemetery now.
SONNY: What’s your story, Sam Lane?
SAM LANE: Orphan.
SAM LANE: That bum was disrespecting my parents’ grave.
SAM LANE: But you already knew that.
SONNY: I did.
Panel 2
Sonny and Sam sitting in a diner, same day, same clothes. Sam eats hungrily.
SONNY: You held yourself well out there.
SAM LANE: You know how it is.
SAM LANE: Have to.
SONNY: And you seem like a nice kid.
SAM LANE: Thanks.
Panel 3
Same clothes, same day. Now they’re walking down a busy Hun City sidewalk. If it begins to seem like a parallel with the HUN CITY page, that’s probably not a coincidence.
SONNY: Listen, I’m probably stepping well outside the line, but have you ever heard of the Ferryman?
SAM LANE: Sure.
SAM LANE: Where I’m from, everyone has.
SAM LANE: Pretty inescapable.
SAM LANE: Between you an’ me, actually fought him, once.
SAM LANE: Held my own.
Panel 4
Same day, same clothes. Now they’re in the park.
SONNY: You’re an incredible person, Sam Lane.
SAM LANE: Thanks.
SONNY: Sorry, here we’ve been talking all day, and I haven’t introduced myself.
SONNY: Ny name’s Sonny.
SAM LANE: And you want to offer me a job.
SONNY: And impertinent.
Panel 5
Close-up of Sonny.
SONNY: Just like I was.
SONNY: Listen, maybe I have no business doing this...
SONNY: No, I really don’t...
SONNY: He’s gonna be pissed.
PAGE FOUR
Panel 1
Sam standing, same clothes, same day, in front of a scowling Hemingway, now dressed casually, indicating that it is in fact later that day.
Panel 2
Same panel. Hemingway is struggling for words in this moment.
Panel 3
Same panel.
HEMINGWAY: He told you.
HEMINGWAY: He told you everything.
Panel 4
Same panel.
SAM LANE: Well, probably not everything.
SAM LANE: I still have no idea whose funeral that was.
SAM LANE: Sorry for, ah, disrupting it.
Panel 5
Same panel.
HEMINGWAY: You didn’t.
HEMINGWAY: A very important person.
Panel 6
Same panel
SAM LANE: I saw you stare daggers, Mister Hemingway.
HEMINGWAY: Young girl.
HEMINGWAY: You have no idea.
Panel 7
Same panel.
SAM LANE: Oh, I think I do.
Panel 8
Same panel.
Panel 9
Same panel, except now Sam has a huge smile on her face.
HEMINGWAY: This is only the beginning, you understand.
SAM LANE: Sure.
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