Grid · 6 panels
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Layout — 6 panels — small grid
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Jesse's bedroom. He is asleep at last, fully clothed, face-down on top of the covers. Beat Pad on his wrist. The Beat Pad is silent — its LED is dark. It has not played all night.
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The Beat Pad blinks back online. A small green LED. Jesse stirs.
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The Beat Pad starts playing. Jesse's face, half-buried in the pillow, goes slack the way every face in Issue 1 went slack.
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He sits up. He looks at the Beat Pad on his wrist. He looks at it like it is a small, expensive lie.
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He pulls it off. Sets it on the nightstand. The LED keeps blinking. The room is very quiet.
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Close on Jesse's hand on the nightstand beside the Beat Pad. His fingers are tapping. The chord. Again. He stops them. They start again. He stops them. They start again.
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