Marvel Girl: Like A Phoenix, page 14

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Panel 1
A middle-aged couple in a car. These are the parents of Fish from a few pages ago. The mom is crying, the dad looks angry.

CAPTION: Having the ability to get inside someone’s head isn’t always as great as it seems.

Panel 2
Focus on the dad.

CAPTION: It’s not always about the handy ability to learn something valuable. Sometimes, and it’s as true when you’re learning about this ability and just trying to control it, as it is later, that you’re exposed to things you’d rather not hear.

CAPTION: Anger, for instance.

Panel 3
Focus on the mom.

CAPTION: And sadness.

CAPTION: There’s no way to prepare for that. The depth of human emotion is always the toughest thing to handle because in many way, it’s the most real thing about us, and the most essential. There’s no way to separate it from the rest of our thought processes. And it dominates.

Panel 4
The mom and dad are getting out of their car.

CAPTION: That’s something I try to remind myself, as often as I can.

Panel 5
We watch as they approach a mass gathering from behind. We can see the backs of signs.

CAPTION: You can’t blame people for their reactions. They can only base them off what they know. Ignorance comes in many forms. I would know.

Panel 6
The parents standing in the crowd. Signs are now visible, reading slogans like “Mutants Deserve To Die,” “No More Mutants,” “The World Belongs To Humans.”

CAPTION: The challenge is to help them understand things better, even when they’re adamant they already know everything they need to know.

CAPTION: Even when they participate in something like this.

CAPTION: And you know with absolute certainty that it’s going to get worse before it gets better.