Page Seven

From doktorsleepless

PAGE SEVEN

Pic 1: Mars pushes himself up on one arm, still half-asleep.

MARS

CAN’T BE. HIS GIRLFRIEND, WASSERNAME, JESSICA… SHE WOULD HAVE NOTICED.

SING

JESSICA’S ON ALGAE THERAPY. SHE’S GOT THE, THE, THE ALGAE IMPLANT THING THAT DRIPFEEDS OPIATE-REPLACEMENTS INTO HER BRAIN.

SING

JESSICA MOVES ON PLANT TIME. IF DJ WAS DEAD IN BED NEXT TO HER SHE WOULDN’T NOTICE FOR A DAY OR TWO.

Pic 2: He leans close to her. She passes a hand over her eyes.

MARS

YOU SURE HE’S AT HOME?

SING

YEAH, MARS. HE’S DEAD.

Pic 3: She puts her face in his neck, as he puts his arm around her. Angle it so we see a window, and light leaking through the curtain.

SING

I’M RUNNING OUT OF FRIENDS, MARS. THIS CITY…IT KEEPS KILLING MY FRIENDS. THEY ALL TURN INTO PILL HEADS AND GRINDERS AND…

MARS

YEAH, WELL.

MARS

JUST ANOTHER DAY IN SIDE-EFFECT CITY.

Pic 4: CUT TO: Something completely random. The Doktor has generated a set of FAKE WARNING SIGNS, that are going to be scattered through the book and through the city. This is just one of those signs, filling the panel. All the signs are SQUARE and ORANGE, and feature a symbol with text below it.

Here, we have a symbol that is a set of radiating wavy lines sprayed out in a circle like Spiderman’s Spider-Sense, and, underneath, the serious words

WAVY LINES OV DETH

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