Strip 274 -- First Seen: 2009-10-01
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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Wide panel. Pan across each of the students describing the music.

Manjula: It was – very faint at first.

Second student: It seemed to grow almost organically out of the background, the wind noise.

Heinrich: After a while, you could not ignore it. It seemed to demand attention.

Fourth student: Sometimes, it wasn't only music. There were also, uh, voices.

Fifth student: But always vague, and ethereal.

Irina: Not all of us heard voices.

Seventh Student: But we did all hear the same music.


Panel 2
Angle shot so we see Reggie in the background left, and Fourth Student and Heinrich (from behind) in the right foreground.
Reggie: Waitaminit. How do you know it was the same music?

Fourth student: Heinrich and I both have musical backgrounds. We each transcribed the music we heard ...

Panel 3
Medium close-up of Reggie, reacting in shock to what the student is saying.
Fourth student: When we compared notes, we saw they were virtually identical.