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## Summary

Bluejay and her gang make it through the night. Karis finishes with some interviews/interrogations.

## Transcript

### Panel 6

All: **WE MADE IT!!**

Raccoon: Oh my god, you made it. I brought bandaids!

### Panel 7

Bluejay: Ah, Raccoon! Excellent! Though- I probably need something more than a bandaid.

### Panel 10

Bluejay: Ha ha ha ha... \*cough\* Looks like I overdid it a little bit... What time is it?

Raccoon: Uh... 5am, just now. Curfew's over.

Bluejay: Okay, thank you. I'm going to go get ready for the day.

### Panel 12

Karis: Hello. Do you mind answering some questions?

Interviewee 1: Kinda weird to ask me after ***making me*** come here?

Interviewee 2: Yeah, so I broke curfew, but I had a good reason!

Karis: You're not here because you broke curfew, miss.

Interviewee 2: Then I have no idea what you're asking.

### Panel 13

Interviewee 3: Wait, am I in trouble??

Karis: No, no-- I just want to ask you some questions...

Interviewee 4: Is this a one-way mirror? Cool!

### Panel 14

Bluejay: That's all I got. Sorry I wasn't more helpful.

Karis: Thanks for your time.

Interviewee 5: That's it. So can I go now? I have to pick my kids up.

Karis: Of course.

### Panel 15

Karis: Thank you for your time! Have a good day!

### Panel 17

Bianca: Um... Chief?

Karis: This better be good news, Audaz.

Bianca: Um...well... hahahaha...

### Panel 18

Bianca: No, it's just... I met Mallory Todd yesterday. Did you see her too, Chief?

Karis: ...I did, why?

### Panel 19

Bianca: It's nothing big, really. I'm just a bit worried about her. How did she seem to you?

Karis: Um, wait... You're asking ***me?***

### Panel 20

Karis: I haven't seen her more than once, **ten years ago.** So how would I know? My memory's not that good. And I'm bad at reading people.

### Panel 21

Bianca: I think you're lying.

Karis: ...Why did you come up to the station, Audaz? Don't you have work to do?

Bianca: It's about that. I wanted to consult you about how to do this. Mallory Todd gave me some samples, right? Wants them identified.

### Panel 22

Bianca: So I did that, and, um, ...How do I explain to her that her samples **shouldn't exist?**

Karis: ...I beg your pardon?

### Panel 23

First, there were no matches in the APD database. But that isn't super weird. So we thought, "just check other bases, something will turn up!" ...I haven't gotten any sleep all night, thanks to this. As it went on, we started looking in weirder and weirder places; the international history DNA base, the polymer database, the grimkind index, the inorganic materials list-- Not a single hit, in the millions of entries I can search. The only thing the sample matches is **itself.**

### Panel 24

Bianca: And I don't really know what to do with that.

Karis: And you think *I* do?

Bianca: I just need an **adultier adult.**

Karis: Maybe there's a mistake?

Bianca: You know I don't make any. that's why you hired me.

Karis: You know, I feel like I don't have time for this? Like on top of it all?? ***Evidence that shouldn't exist*** is a new low for me.

### Panel 25

Karis: I don't **know,** Audaz. Just tell her the district is **falling apart.**

Bianca: Keep it together, Chief. I'll just tell her it's some supernatural nonsense.

### Panel 26

Mallory (Internal): Holy shit. The district is ***falling apart.***

### Panel 27

Mallory (Internal): Karis is doing everything she can think of. And nothing is working. She's at the end of her rope, huh? No wonder Quinn's request was approved.

### Panel 29

Mallory: Hey... I'm super bored! I want breakfast! C'mon!

### Panel 30

Mallory: ...Ugh! Fine!

**THUD!**

### Panel 31

(Note labelled M.TODD)

hey!

it looks like things aren't the best right now. if you need anything- ~~even just someone to talk.~~ -feel free to call whenever you want.

B.

Mallory: heh

### Panel 32

OH, ORI, YOU'RE AWAKE?

Ori (To Narrator): oh, hey... yeah i didn't really get any sleep

HAVE YOU BEEN CRYING?

Ori (To Narrator): little bit

SORRY, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE **A LOT**TLE BIT.

Ori (To Narrator): ahahahaha, yeah i feel like shit and i don't know what to do.

### Caption

Welcome back, Orion! It's a new day, full of possibilities.

Where do we even begin?