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This is a preview of: Phoebus Krumm

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Three Panels

PANEL ONE (upper half of page)

Krumm and Demondion-Echeverria dismount at the front entrance to
Lia's Palace, surrounded by a dozen liveried servants. They should all
be tiny in this panel -- like ants dismounting from half a sunflower
seed shell in front of a human sized house. We're only seeing the
first few levels of the place, rising up and out of the picture.

Narrative: 'While Captain Krumm and Demondion-Echeverria went the long
way around, through 'protocol' -- they'd be at it for at least an hour
-- I took a shortcut.'

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PANEL TWO (lower lefthand quarter of page)

The narrator, straddling his wheeless unicycle machine, races from
left to right, as if popping a wheelie on a regular motorcycle. He's
moving very quickly through interior corridors, past a startled
servant or two. One of them tries to catch a vase that has leaped off
a little table as the narrator passes.

These corridors should look a bit like those in a very good hotel,
or in Buckingham Palace as shown in _Help!_, except that the walls and
ceiling are mixtures of frosted and polished glass. There are hanging
pictures, and carpeting, too.

Narrative: 'Estimated trip time, three minutes.'

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PANEL THREE (lower right quarter of page)

Essentially similar image, only right to left. Servants diving out
of the way, maybe one hanging by his fingers in a doorway. One of them
should be a Stiqueman, nine feet tall, and like a cartoon stick
figure, only with his tiny head down between his shoulders. His face
is entirely non-human.

Narrative: 'A new record: two-minutes, forty-three seconds!'