Chapter: Chapter 58
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Emily: I think I've been seeing them. At work.
Dee: Since when?
Emily: Basically since we got back. Maybe not right away, and it started faint... and maybe it's not exactly seeing, but it's something.
SINCE RETURNING TO MY JOB, I'D BEEN PUT MORE OFTEN IN THE HIGHER NEEDS AND PALLIATIVE CARE WARDS.
SO THIS WAS HAPPENING MORE FREQUENTLY THAN BEFORE.
Emily: It's like a heat shimmer, or a mirage. And it's been getting ... clearer. More person-shaped.
(A sequence of panels showing Dee taking various people, who appear vague and swirly, but increasingly humanoid in shape.)
Dee: Are you sure? You're not... imagining what you know I'm doing, or... something?
Emily (shaking her head): I don't think so. We've got Margaret coming up, so we could... ...But do you think this is a problem?
Dee: ... Well, I don't like it, but... does that mean anything's wrong? I don't know.
Emily: Yeah
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Alt text: Asking Dee about this in visual terms is a LITTLE like asking Emily what humans in general smell like. a) Being such sightbeasts, humans don't usually have strong vocabularies for scents, especially mild/neutral ones. b) Emily herself isn't a supersmeller or a sommelier or otherwise had to focus on developing her smell perception. Dee does have the extra problem of nobody else in existence with whatever his sensory apparatus is, so nobody to develop a language about that sort of stuff with. Theoretically he could try to come up with something just for the purposes of talking to himself, but... :/
Dee: Since when?
Emily: Basically since we got back. Maybe not right away, and it started faint... and maybe it's not exactly seeing, but it's something.
SINCE RETURNING TO MY JOB, I'D BEEN PUT MORE OFTEN IN THE HIGHER NEEDS AND PALLIATIVE CARE WARDS.
SO THIS WAS HAPPENING MORE FREQUENTLY THAN BEFORE.
Emily: It's like a heat shimmer, or a mirage. And it's been getting ... clearer. More person-shaped.
(A sequence of panels showing Dee taking various people, who appear vague and swirly, but increasingly humanoid in shape.)
Dee: Are you sure? You're not... imagining what you know I'm doing, or... something?
Emily (shaking her head): I don't think so. We've got Margaret coming up, so we could... ...But do you think this is a problem?
Dee: ... Well, I don't like it, but... does that mean anything's wrong? I don't know.
Emily: Yeah
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Alt text: Asking Dee about this in visual terms is a LITTLE like asking Emily what humans in general smell like. a) Being such sightbeasts, humans don't usually have strong vocabularies for scents, especially mild/neutral ones. b) Emily herself isn't a supersmeller or a sommelier or otherwise had to focus on developing her smell perception. Dee does have the extra problem of nobody else in existence with whatever his sensory apparatus is, so nobody to develop a language about that sort of stuff with. Theoretically he could try to come up with something just for the purposes of talking to himself, but... :/
