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PAGE 30 (Four panels)

Panel One: Hope and Brian looking down at something sketched out on a kitchen table down at which Hope is pointing.

Caption: I have to explain my something to the boyfriend.

Panel Two: Brian and Hope facing each other across the kitchen table. Brian looks horrified, Hope quietly determined.

Brian: This is insane! You’re sitting there with a straight face and telling me you want to commit suicide…

Hope: It isn’t suicide, Brian. All of those women are still legally alive.

Panel Three: Close-up view of one of the brains floating in the tube.

Caption: What sort of life are you proposing? A future as a disembodied brain floating in a tube full of goo?

Caption: It’s not like there’s any return from that..

Panel Four: View of a partially-constructed female cyborg lying on a table in a laboratory.

Caption: Not necessarily. There are future possibilities. Surgical transplantation to a vat-grown clone. Or full-body cybernetic prosthesis…

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We Must Boost the Signal, Page 30 written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

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PAGE 29 (Four panels)

Panel One: Hope, Macneil, and Xu standing side-by-side, the cylinder room behind them.

Dr. Xu; I see. Well then, thank you for your time, Dr. Montclair.

Macneil: I’ll see you through security and out.

Panel Two: Macneil and Hope standing next to each other in the elevator. Macneil is handing Hope a business card.

Macneil: If you do think of something you will let us know, Dr. Montclair? I mean, those poor girls, their families…

Hope: I promise to see what I can do.

Panel Three: Hope standing besides her car, a small, old, battered-looking subcompact. She has her keys in her hand, and is looking back over her shoulder with a worried expression.

Panel Four: View of Hope sitting behind the wheel of her car.

Caption: I’ve thought of something already.

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We Must Boost the Signal, Page 29 written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

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PAGE 28 (Three panels)

Panel One: Macneil is handling a tablet computer to Hope.

Caption: They nod gravely at my explanation.

Caption: Special Agent Macneil gives me dossiers of some of the women to read. I suspect a motivational ploy, but agree to read them anyway.

Panel Two: Hope’s P.O.V., looking down at the tablet. She is looking at a file for Amy Ninenger. The front page of the dossier has a picture of Amy, looking sweet.

Caption: It’s a bit of a shock to look down at the smiling face of someone whose skull you’ve just seen.

Panel Three: Reverse view of Hope’s face, illuminated by the light of the tablet screen which she is perusing intently.

Caption: I read also about Grace Bluestone. Even in the bureaucratic prose it’s clear that they were all human beings with lives and futures.

Caption: I begin to feel motivated.

License

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We Must Boost the Signal, Page 28 written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)