Chapter 53
↓ Transcript(Playing chess) Dee: Hmm… that’s mate in six. Emily: Damn you saw that! Dee: Maate. Emily: Maaaaaaaate! (View of the sun) Emily: Hey can we go to the sun? Dee: No, I don’t think we should go closer than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptMERCURY (A series of 9 panels showing the sun rising partially above a horizon, sinking below it again, then finally fully rising. Emily watches this process through a tinted window, wearing dark glasses, drinking melted ice from a polar[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ Transcript(Emily sitting on her bed, brushing her hair. Dee watches from the other side of the vessel.) Dee: Could… I have a go of that? Emily: Hm? What, of brushing my hair? Yeah, sure! Dee: Tell me if I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ Transcript(A sequence showing Emily’s hands demonstrating how to plait; partway through Dee’s hands take it up; at the end Emily’s hands have let go.) Dee: This isn’t so hard! Emily: Haha! No, it’s no spaceship. You wanna do a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptDee: Letters from Zoe and Markus! Emily: Yay! Dee: How are they? Emily: They’ve each joined SO MANY clubs at uni, and yet none in common!? How many clubs are there!? (A stream of letters flying back and forth[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptMARS (Two panels showing Emily posing next to rovers in her space suit, as if for photos: In one she stands next to the Opportunity rover and points to a rock in her hand; in the other she stands[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptDee: Ok. Welche Sprache spreche ich jetzt? Emily: German! Dee: Ja! Che lingua è questa? Emily: Spanish? Dee: No. Emily: Um… Italian? Dee: Sì! Quelle langue es est-ce que je parle maintenant? Emily: That’s gotta be French. Dee: Ima,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptEmily: No no, one more try, I can do it. Dee: Bet you can’t. Emily: I will! Dee: You won’t. Emily: I’m doing it! If I move reeeaally slowly… Whoops. ASTEROIDS (Emily has accidentally kicked off the asteroid she[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ Transcript(Dee’s hands forming Auslan signs for the individual letters A, B, C, D, and E.) Dee (signing ‘bisexual’): …and this means ‘bisexual’. Emily: Oh! I love that! Thanks! I mean: Emily (translated from Auslan): ‹Thanks!› Emily: It’s funny… Like,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…