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In the background, Singing Cricket quietly tucks his false moustache into his robe while Belavor sticks a WANTED poster to the wall. He passes a small alligator child, Gustopher, who has wandered in from another comic. Kayra: "Oh! Sorry, I didn't introduce you. Tamilda, this is one of my regulars. She's ALSO called Kayra!" Changeling: "Pleased to meet you!" Tamilda: "Hi, uh... Kayra. Is that a very common name?" Changeling: "Your friend is the only other one I'VE met." Tamilda, holding the changeling's hand, thinks of a stick.
Kayra: "And THIS handsome hunk of man is my HUSBAND! Husband, this is Kayra!" Singing Cricket: "Oh? Hi! ...Have we met before?" Changeling: "I don't think so..."
Singing Cricket: "There's something ODD about that woman..." Tamilda: "You're dang right there is!" The conversation continues off-panel. Changeling: "Oh, wow! You got married??" Kayra: "Well... I'm working on it. How about you?"
Tamilda gasps, thinking of what Nanny Muk had told her about hags stealing children... "When we take a child, we REPLACE her." Tamilda: "(gasp) I KNEW IT!"
Tamilda: "Hmm..."
Changeling, looking away shyly: "That's actually what I wanted to ask you about..." Tamilda: "Kayra! She isn't what you think she is!"
Tamilda: "She's an imposter!" Kayra: "Tamilda? What are you--" Changeling: "Oh, no... DON'T LOOK AT ME!" |