Strip 433 -- First Seen: 2010-05-05
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QV on a short break

QUANTUM VIVE is taking a break for a few weeks, as we prepare for Part 2 of the Novo Palermo story, and also for a Kickstarter campaign for Part 1, which will start in September.

In the meantime, Not-Safe.Space will continue, as a murder mystery begins and the relationship between Eithne and Diana develops in unexpected directions.

Not-Safe.Space is a NSFW strip but more than half the pages are SFW so I've set those to *not* require a Patreon membership. Readers should be able to follow the story without seeing the NSFW pages. If I've done this right.

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Wide panel. Cut back to Lunar Kiddie Slammer. Robyn is in a dayroom, before one of the wall-sized windows looking out over the lunarscape. The 'upside-down' Earth can be seen just above the horizon. Robyn is performing a Yoga-style headstand.

Caption (Robyn): 'Anyway, with my safety worry out of the way, I actually enjoyed some aspects of the situation.'

Caption (Robyn): 'I ached for my family and for freedom, but I was comforted by the Moon's stark beauty and the Earth sitting on the oddly-near horizon.'

Caption (Robyn): 'And since my mom had taught me Yoga, I could even turn the Earth 'right-side-up' when I performed my headstands.'

Panel 2
Another wide panel. Robyn and a few other prisoners are tending a planted indoor-field on one of the lower Tower levels. She looks contented. One guard is visible, but is not bothering anybody.

Caption (Robyn): 'Even the farm work gave me some comfort.'

Caption (Robyn): 'I'd never been afraid of physical labor and working with living things brought me a … an inner peace I'd never known in Singapore.

Caption (Robyn): 'Unfortunately, that was about to change.'