Screen 1
ONE:
Interior of Sabre’s cabin.
She was the only one really prepared for that.
DRAKE and DRUM have gone ass over tit.
NO COPY.
TWO:
SABRE straightening up, brushing hair out of her face. DRAKE and DRUM are pulling themselves to their feet.
NO COPY.
THREE:
DRAKE and DRUM staring at SABRE, who smiles brightly.
1. SABRE: Warned you.
2. SABRE: Terminus shock, we’re in open Aether now.
FOUR:
SABRE grinning, turning away from them, back to the map.
DRAKE is not nearly as amused by her as DRUM is, straightening himself.
3. DRAKE: Lot of blood spilled for a map.
Screen 2
ONE:
DRAKE and DRUM have returned to the table, where SABRE is again smoothing the MAP.
SABRE is looking at DRAKE, approving.
1. DRAKE: Not a treasure map. Some sort of chart?
2. SABRE: Very good, Marshal.
TWO:
Stet, but now SABRE is looking at the map and DRAKE is looking at her. He’s trying very hard not to be annoyed.
3. SABRE: Also, wrong.
4. SABRE: It is a treasure map, of a sort, at least.
THREE:
Now all three are looking at the map.
5. DRAKE: I don’t see it.
6. SABRE: Because it’s not a chart, nor merely a map of lands…
FOUR:
POV of the map, showing the current/pattern lines. CU on it, context within the map itself is less important here.
7. SABRE/above: …it’s a prediction of the weather….
The first panel is priceless: Drake’s expression and Drum’s foot. I would have expected Lady S. to keep her balance a bit more, but the expression of glee on her face is so revealing.
Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but that moment, the transition to open aether, is the moment that she lives for, the part that she can’t get enough of…and it’s even better when shared with a couple of noobs.
Agreed on the first panel. LOVE the expression on Drake’s face.
The first panel is indeed priceless, from the “Darn it!” of Drake to the “Problems, landlubber…?” of Lady Sabre (and, yes, the feet of Drum). I love all of it though.
Also? They must have some HECK of a meteorologists there, if their predictions are worth charting more than 5 minutes ahead! 🙂
Ah… but it’s not meteorology where the Aether is concerned, now, is it?
Aetherology?
Just chiming in to say that I absolutely love that first panel as well. Nothing like a good grin to get Monday morning started well. 🙂
A disheveled Drake is a scary Drake.
Ha ha haaaaa, that first panel. Not sure what’s funnier, Drake’s face or Sabre’s.
Does that wee container spill every time they enter The Aether? I sure hope all the other things on board are better secured. I imagine it would be an extraordinary hassle to clean everything up any time the crew of The Pegasus wanted to take the leap.
Sabre looks like a kid in a candy store in these panels.
Oh, I love the playful nature in Sabre’s face. I know I’m not the first to say it, but I *so* miss comics where the characters seem to be having fun right along side the readers. With that smile, you’ve added such a wonderful humanity to her character. Can’t wait for the next pages. 🙂