Daylight Saving, Issue 1: Part 3.1

Page 13 Panel 1: Cut to a shot of the notebook a few moments later, showing for the first time the pure detail of the U.S. and World History stretching from the first decade of the 21st century. You can see the yellowed notebook papers sticking out from some of the other pages outside of it.

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(Brie)

"It was this incredible oral history. She had somehow mapped out, using data from old servers that settled down below in the mega floods as well as those the Merts had scraped up, the evolution of the 'Green' movement from late in the 20th century right through the middle of the last century when the world crumbled to dust."

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(Cont., Brie)

"She was gifting it to me, and I was both honored and...not a little bit terrified at the same time."

Panel 2: The page turns and we see more of the same type of data, highlighting more of the timeline leading up to 2040 and the different fallout shelters all over the world. It also highlights something called "The Great Calamity," which caused this dystopia we are in today.

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(Cont., Brie)

"I felt a need to try to follow along the path she set out, but for the longest time I couldn't find a way that interested me. Then I spotted a citation in one of the margins."

Panel 3: Close-up on a single citation in the margins of these aforementioned pages. On top of the address is the name Dr. Trixie Burnham; "Too crazy to believe" written right underneath it.

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(Cont., Brie)

"Dr. Trixie Burnham from someplace called University College London."

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(Millie)

"That who you named the device after?"

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(Brie)

"Yeah..."

Panel 4: We move to the now 14 year old Brie in a school computer lab in search of something on one of the stations. You can see a few other students going about their days in the background.

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(Cont., Brie)

"I did some research on the Doctor, hoping to gain some clarity on why Mom had her name in there in the first place. At first, I was turning up bupkis until I spotted some unpublished theoretical paper from what I think was a personal server of hers."

Panel 5: Cut to a shot of the screen in question: a proposed academic paper that centered around the theory of "Time Travel As a Slingshot."

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(Cont., Brie)

"The tech was probably too impossible then, but was in grasp now with the tech available as well as my scientific engineering skills. I realized right then and there what I can bring to the table..."

Panel 6: A few moments later, teen Brie glances up toward the sky with sparked intrigue connected to an idea that pops in their head.

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(Cont., Brie)

"I could go back in time and save the world!"

Page 14

Panel 1: Series of shots showing the young person in their room putting the idea together via a weathered yet functional whiteboard in their room.

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(Cont., Brie)

"I started building out a plausible formula in between classes, using whatever scientific texts on Quantum Mechanics were in piece in the library."

Panel 2: The second one, taking place a few years later, shows Brie starting to sculpt together the design of the machine itself in a section of the whiteboard next to the formula.

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(Cont., Brie)

"With that laid out, I started to doodle around what the machine would look like, and..."

Panel 3: The third and final one, a short time after that, shows them going through a bazaar selling mechanical scrap that was preserved from journeys outside the City to the world that was.

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(Cont., Brie)

"...gather up the parts that'd become the machine. All hopeful that it might--"

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(Millie)

"Yeah, yeah. I'm all familiar with the rest of the tale, bud."

Panel 4: Back in the present, in the break room, we see the young person wrapping up the remainder of their story with a glint of excitement as they speak.

MILLIE

(Cont., Off-Panel) I think we're aware that the chances of me stopping you from doing this are slim to nil.

BRIE

Obviously, yes.

Panel 5: Millie takes in the whole explanation with some respect mixed with a degree of skepticism to her friend's main goal; a single question popping into her head in response.

MILLIE

But you still haven't answered the big question, outside of the whole machine malfunction/death thing- what if people there consider you a threat, and try to kill you?