Old Scars, Chapter 6: Part 3.3
Page 139 Panel 1: The scene quickly turns into a bronco busting-type battle on the road; T grabbing the side of the animal with their opposite hand as they rare back with the glove hand to get it into position.
Panel 2: A short time of bouncing and shaking go by, and the young person finally gets the perfect position to do the job.
T
Just...a little while...longer!
Panel 3: Close-up moments later as the pair of needles are plunged squarely in the creature's back, eliciting a growl from off-panel left followed by...
Panel 4: ...an arm grabbing T and throwing them off its back in response to the action.
Panel 5: T pulls themselves up from the powder they landed in, which somewhat blunted the impact of the throw. They look over at the creature off-panel, relieved but sore overall.
T
(thought bubble, taking off the glove) Is it so much to ask for a softer landing spot? Hopefully, the anaesthetic can buy me enough time to drive...
Panel 6: Same setting/layout as the previous panel. The young person stops walking a beat later, struck by an interesting development.
T
(Cont., thought bubble) ...home.
(speaking, curious) It's really silent, all of a sudden. Not that I'm complaining, but...few good things come from this level of silence.
Page 140
Panel 1: Cut to a shot of the road stretching out to the left, representing from T's POV checking out the battered scenery of the road they've passed by.
T
(Off-Panel) Please let me be wrong. Please let me be wrong. Please let me be wrong...
Panel 2: A short time later, we see an aerial shot of a damaged street near Po's neighborhood. You can see some of the animal/people on the street, not moving an inch all of a sudden.
Caption
(Cont., T)
"Just as silent and not on fire as the outskirts- a good sign."
Panel 3: A two-part set of panels that moves back to T at the wheel of the Timmi, going down the same road from the previous panel.
T
(Cont., daring to be hopeful) Maybe...Maybe Grem beat Louhi somehow. But there are still a lot of creature peeps out there. If he'd won, wouldn't they be changing back by now? Could be a gradual thing...maybe!
Panel 4: In the second part, a short time later, a similar hard fwooshing sound from the beginning pierces the silence for the first time which catches them off-guard.
T
(looking up slightly) What the hell?
Panel 5: Cut to a shot from their POV, looking out at a white streak that passed them by toward a separate location.
T
(Off-Panel) Looks like another Ghost Rocket. But it doesn't appear to be landing anywhere.