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OF COURSE, AT OTHER TIMES THERE WAS SO MUCH TO SAY WE BARELY PAUSED FOR BREATH. (NOT THAT HE NEEDED TO, BUT ANYWAY.)
Emily: ...no I don’t think so. Living things could be here for something we don’t know about yet.
Dee: Yeah? Like what?
Emily: Like... I don’t know, gathering the knowledge we need to save the universe one day.
Dee: What, so you all spend billions of years evolving just to act in one brief moment?
Emily: Well, it doesn’t have to be that, exactly – ...
Other students: ...?
Emily: *stare*
Other students: (HASTILY SHUFFLE AWAY)
Dee: It’s funny how much you alarm them...
Emily: I know! Anyway, I’m just saying that you don’t know for sure that our purpose is to live.
Dee: But it’s the only thing that makes sense!
Emily: But maybe the truth only makes sense in context. Or maybe we don’t have a purpose at all. You do, but that doesn’t mean anything because we’re so different.
Dee: But that seems so pointless and... depressing.
Emily: Some people think so. Other people think the idea of fate is more so. They’d rather have a choice in their life.
Dee: Hmm. Yeah, I sometimes think I’d like to have the choice available, but I don’t actually think it matters. I’m hardly going to decide against taking someone. That would be weird.
Emily: Well, we have a choice, so maybe living isn’t our purpose.
Dee: Maybe it’s to live well. So if you’re that unhappy or unwell you might take the other option.
Emily: Maybe we’re here to obey physics. No choice in that.
Dee: That’s...
THOSE TIMES MAKE FOR A MUCH MORE INTERESTING STORY, SO I’LL PROBABLY LEAVE OUT THE QUIETER MOMENTS.
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Alt text: listen this is not going to be a fast-paced comic but at least it won't have page after page of ABSOLUTELY nothing happening