All
quieting down the quarantine distant from the farmhouse as the battle
remnants roll away. Farmer Bob turns to Timepiece and the lady-bomb as
they stare at her wrecked airship, the core torn out.
Farmer Bob - "She really was one hell of a hell of a Buick."
Timepiece - "Yeah ..."
Farmer Bob - Putting his arm around her shoulder, "Proud of you."
Timepiece - "Thanks dad."
Pragmatism named as 'The Knight in Shiny Legparts'
Thesis is 'Eggs Benedict Arnold or EBA'
The Architect is 'Used Spaceship Salesman'
EBA's dad is 'EBA's dad or EBZ' and the rest as seen.
(the cartoon ends as they ride past Leviathan with a band-aid, Miranda diving over, swooping bird, Kurukulla spinning shooting fireworks into the air on the beach, past the carnival and through the gate before it slams shut behind)
~ after the last credits ~
Nocturne's tube is rolled down the asylum hall, all signs being before the story, guards drinking their coffee.
Inside, her closed eyes.
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(this scene relates to 'The Profane Tales') Mariposa Liddell walks down
the empty asylum halls the way they came, up the stairs to the office.
She opens the door and sits.
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The guards pause in their sips at a clanking sound in the distance approaching, look at each other and continue.
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Mariposa - Sitting on the wrong side of the desk, "And so clearly it is a hideous thing of nature, on any occasion, to infer that a rabbit may squat and squirt ... an egg."
Germain - Leans forward from the other side of the desk, "We are absolutely agreed. This is repugnant behavior regardless which ever could be claimed first ... to be. How may I help you."
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The guards open the cell, holding the door for those with the trolley.
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Mariposa - "I need to get away."
Germain
- Looks at her considering, "Indeed you do." He taps his fingers in
thought then glances to the ornate pen on the desk, then back again.
Smiles, "Have you ever considered writing it down ?"
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The cell slams to the approaching clamp sound, nervous guards.
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Mariposa looks up smiling.
