first three panels of a grayscale mother 3 comic. kumatora, duster, and lucas are all sitting on the grass. kumatora begins "Hey Lucas, tell me something." in the second panel she continues "What are you doing all this for? Do we have anything left that's worth protecting?" the third panel shows the broken body of a flying mouse. "After this is over, will there even be anyone left who deserves the new world?"
duster turns to kumatora and says "Kumatora, that's not fair." kumatora counters "I don't care. I want to hear it from Lucas. He's the smartest one here and you know it." Lucas, with his legs slung over a sleeping boney, is letting a caterpillar crawl onto his finger as he responds "I guess...."
"it's the possibility that the future could be better." Lucas continues, observing the caterpillar closely. kumatora, still discouraged, holds her face in her hands and says "That's a pretty flimsy hope." Lucas looks off into the distance and responds "Yeah, I guess so." around him, two butterflies flutter by.
"at some point, the world wound up destroyed. naturally, it was humans who destroyed it."
(2020)
