↓ Transcript(Dee is pointing out to Emily where they are going using an orrery, which is arranged in the approximate position of where the planets are at that moment; inset into a big view of some white dots which are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chapter 51
↓ Transcript(Back on the vessel, Emily eats her dinner and looks at the moon while the shutters close on the outside of the windows. Then she is in bed pulling the curtain shut.) AND SO (Panels showing: Surveyor 3; Emily[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ Transcript(Emily is drawing in the dirt; Dee approaches from a little way away.) Dee: Hey Emily, how – ! What are you doing? (She has written ‘EM + DEE WERE HERE 2013’ in the dust.) Emily: You can scuff[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ Transcript(Emily gazes up at the Earth in the sky. She gets teary again but when she goes to wipe her eyes her hand donks on the space helmet.) Emily: AH! Dee help I’m crying again and I can’t -[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ Transcript(They land on the moon.) Dee: Okay! Ready? (The door is opened. Emily leaps out.) Emily: WAHOO!! (She nearly lands upside down but Dee catches her.) Dee: AH what are you doing! Emily: A somersault! Dee: Try walking first!?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ Transcript(Emily is doing up her hair, zipping herself into the special under-layer of clothing for her space suit, and then putting on the suit (Dee is helping). Not depicted: the diaper) Emily (stomping excitedly towards the airlock): Ha ha[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ Transcript(The spaceship is moving further and further away from the Earth. It’s also still concealed by Emily’s thingy except that I still drew it for you to see.) (Inside, Emily gets to be weightless for a bit and has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptEmily: -sniff- Wow, I didn’t expect to get all teary… Dee: It’s okay! Seems very fair!! Would you like to… orbit for a bit? Or keep going to the moon? Emily: We can keep going. -sniff- But first I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ Transcript(Dee appears in the background and dances around excitedly while Emily is still looking down at the Earth through the window.) Dee: It worked! You did such a good job with your thing, it hid us from a lot[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ Transcript(Emily and Dee arrive in the spaceship thing; she drops her backpack and jumps on the bed excitedly) Emily: Okay! Is everything ready? Do I put the mask up now? Dee: Yep, it’s time! But don’t worry too much[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…