Strip 313 -- First Seen: 2009-11-25
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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Back in the Water Bros. Café, during a slow period. Wally Cooper is seating himself at a booth, as Emily Rose approaches him.

Emily: Er, long time no see, Wally.

Wally: Uh, yeah. Mom's taken up the cello. Can't study at home.

Panel 2
Wally (now about 13 years old) is setting up his portable at the table. It consists of a rectangular bar about 15 inches wide which projects a holoscreen above and a holo-keyboard at its base.

Emily: What are you studying?

Wally: Orbital mechanics. Could I please have an iced tea, a BLT sandwich and some solitude?

Panel 3
Emily is standing over next to Babbette the Elder at her cashier's stand, Emily glancing back over her shoulder towards where Wally is sitting.

Emily: I've never seen a kid his age so … so ...

Babbette: Driven? Yeah, that's his way of coping with … the war.

Panel 4
Two-shot of Emily and Babbette. Emily is looking a bit downcast Babbette is looking as though she's unsure of what she's saying.

Emily: Yeah, he was closer to Billy than I was, in a way.

Babbette: Don't know about that, Emily, but if he's found a purpose in life, that's not a bad thing, necessarily.