Page four. Tenar leans down towards Therru, speaking with utmost love and compassion, “People see your scars, but they see you too,” Therru looks away, and then meets Tenar’s eye in the next panel as she says, “and you aren’t your scars, you aren’t ugly, you aren’t evil.” In the next panel Tenar looks so sad, “You are Therru, and beautiful.” But then she smiles, as if imagining a happier future for this little girl, “You are Therru, who can work, and walk, and run.” We cut back to see Tenar kneeling and Therru standing, “And dance beautifully, in a red dress.”
Page five. Tenar stares at Therru, waiting for a response. Therru stares at Tenar, looking sad, and then looks down at Tenar’s hands. She reaches down to take Tenar’s hands, then Tenar raises her hands up to meet Therru’s. They stay like that, holding hands in a panel that once again takes up the width of the pages and submerses them in a field of color. This panel is reversed, however, from the previous page-wide panel. On all sides light encroaches, while they sit in a puddle of darkness. Therru speaks, “It’s a beautiful dress.”
