Page Transcript:

Panel 1
Zorensen thrashes in his hospital bed while a doctor and the reptilian auditor look on.

Zorensen:
“They’re here!”
“They’re here!”
“A burning shadow in a skin of radiance!”

Panel 2
Hospital staff try to restrain Zorensen as he raves wildly.

Zorensen:
“You built this city on unnamed ghosts!”
“Reaping its citizens and paving over the hollows!”
“But they’re still there!”
“They’ve been singing under the asphalt!”
“Humming in the power lines!”
“They are waiting!”
“They are calling!”
“And now the inevitable has answered!”

Panel 3
The reptilian auditor calmly walks down the hospital hallway carrying his briefcase while Zorensen’s rant continues off panel.

Zorensen (off panel):
“Oh, this beautiful, mad and dying city…”
“It is the wound!”
“It is the cradle!”
“It is the keyhole through which the end shall come!”
“The Tree of Life shall bloom again with fruit no god may touch!”

Panel 4
The auditor continues walking away down the empty corridor.

Zorensen (off panel):
“The Final Revelation is not a sounding trumpet…”
“It is a mirror!”
“And when we look we shall see nothing but the glory of their smile!”