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This is a preview of: Phoebus Krumm

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Four Panels

PANEL ONE (upper lefthand quarter of page)

Whenever you have a chance, insert little stained glass creatures
on the floor, the table, crawling on the lamps, etc.

Similar three-shot, tighter, of Krumm on the left, Lia on the
right, with Demondion-Echeverria in the middle. Lia nods toward
Demondion-Echeverria, raises her eyebrows, or indicates him in some
other way. Demondion-Echeverria points with comic modesty to himself.

Kruum (balloon high upper left): 'And that other -- ?'

Krumm (balloon low right): 'And the warning?'

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PANEL TWO (upper righthand quarter of page)

Closeup of Demondion-Echeverria.

Demondion-Echeverria: 'Among thousands of polities in our Cluster --
and the estimated 15 quintillion subjects they rule -- it is a matter
of conjecture whether the Monopolity of Hanover or the Jendyne
Empery-Cirot is more powerful and prosperous.'

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PANEL THREE (lower lefthand quarter of page)

Two-shot, Demondion-Echeverria and Lia.

Demondion-Echeverria: 'Both have existed almost since humanity arrived
here 10 centuries ago. Both claim thousands of colonies. Both maintain
huge armies, and vast navies of the Great Deep.'

Lia: 'Would that it were otherwise ... '

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PANEL FOUR (lower right quarter of page)

Closeup of Lia.

Lia: 'Both neared extinction in our recent war with the Aggregate.
Oplyte slave warriors destroyed Old Hanover and laid waste to Sibola.
Yet we survived, rebuilt, regained a measure of our previous grandeur.
Some 10 of those 15 quintillion reside within the Monopolity or the
Empery-Cirot.'