Daylight Saving, Issue 5: Part 4.1

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Panel 1: Same setting/layout as the last panel of the previous page. After a few moments of thought, Brie fires back with their counterpitch.

BRIE

(Cont.)

My mode of inspiration for everything I’ve done in this time stretches back to a thoroughly formative moment in World History: the creation of NASA half a century ago. It began as a great idea with good people and, many claimed, little chance of getting off the ground.

Panel 2: A three-layered panel that's focused on a single rocketship, albeit from different eras in NASA's history. The bottom at its founding, the middle with the Apollo program, the top the Discovery program.

Caption

(Cont., Brie; Tier 1)

"For a time, the doubters were right. But the people on the ground still did the work, believing in the possibility of the impossible, and the victories starting coming through...

Caption

(Cont., Brie; Tier 2)

"...first in tiny measures and small spiritual victories. And then, over time, they started to grow in size and scope and importance. Before those same doubters could blink..."

Caption

(Cont., Brie; Tier 3)

"...the world changed, in I’d argue far better than where it was at its creation."

Panel 3: Back to Mx. Benoit in the coffee shop, finishing up the rest of their thought with a sense of peaked vigor to their counterpitch.

BRIE

(Cont.)

I believe, deep in my bones, that this Gerwig School will be mentioned in the same rarified company long after we’re both dead. Wouldn't you like to be the far thinking visionary that helped provide the world a far better future than the one that brought me to the year 2000?

Panel 4: Maddie smirks, leaning back in her chair as she chews over the bulk of the counterpitch a few moments later.

SEN. SKJEI

Impressive. Didn’t peg you as a salesman.

SEN. SKJEI

(Bubble 2; reacting to Panel 5, Bubble 1)

Ah. That makes sense...

Panel 5: Brie shakes their head, reaching out to grab the coffee cup as they speak.

BRIE

(with pride)

I’m not. I’m a Techie, through and through, who read books by Salesmen before this meeting.

Panel 6: Same setting/layout as Panel 4. The good Senator takes a longer sip of the coffee cup; her mind in a renewed state of thought over the whole thing.

BRIE

(Off-Panel)

So...have I changed your mind about introducing the bill?

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Panel 1: Same setting/layout as the last panel of the previous page. She lowers the cup back down to the countertop moments later, after having come up with her verdict.

SEN. SKJEI

You've gotten me closer to "Yes." But there's still a sense of action I'd love to see, especially before you leave for the Netherlands for Cop 6.

Panel 2: Brie nods affirmatively at the question tipping off the last bit of Maddie's point; the cookie in their right hand, rising up for another bite.

SEN. SKJEI

(Cont., Off-Panel)

You mentioned the young girl- Falis.

BRIE

Yeah. I invited her and her mother to the conference. I saw her work in England, and I think she has a great future in front of her. One I’d love to help nurture somehow.

Panel 3: Action shot of the good Senator pushing her chair back a few inches in preparation to stand up.

SEN. SKJEI

I understand. Some of the stuff she mentioned on the ECT…would be a pretty good example of the “sense of action” I mentioned.

Panel 4: Cut to a shot of Ms. Noor, as this is going on, drinking a soda and doing homework in her room; her eyes squinting, deep in thought on a problem. Off-panel is the sound of a phone ringing.

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(Cont., Sen. Skjei)

“Just a little food for thought.”

Panel 5: Gina pops in the door a short time later with an exasperated and slightly surprised look on her face.

GINA

It's the girl-man from America for you...!