Dialogue! Finally!
Edited to add: WordPress’s suggested tags on this were “Bible,” “Jesus,” and “Christianity.” Why, WordPress? Your AI is drunk.
Below the cut to spare your RAM:
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Image description:
A six-panel, black-and-white comic page.
Panel 1: Three figures kneel between a pair of huge columns. A staircase behind them goes up. The central figure is a tall man with long, flat ears, dressed as a Buddhist monk and carrying a staff decorated with prayer beads. His hair is in a large topknot. The other figures, flanking him, wear long robes and masks with three eyes.
Panel 2: Another masked priest stands beside a dais, on which the statue of a pregnant bodhisattva sits in a meditative pose, legs crossed. Her belly contains the emperor, a thin man with long, pointed ears in a similar pose. At the statue’s feet kneels a woman with one arm raised, thin tubing drawing blood from her toward the emperor’s pod. Industrial tubing hangs from the ceiling in the background.
Priest: The emperor greets you, Lord Tomoya.
Panel 3: A close-up of the profile of the man with long, flat ears and a topknot. This is Lord Tomoya. In addition to his ears, a notable feature is that the bridge of his nose extends straight down from his brow.
Tomoya: I am honored to kneel before his holy presence.
Panel 4: From above, Tomoya and the priests flanking him, their shadows long and thin, extending behind them.
Priest (off-panel): His holiness has become aware…
Panel 5: The opposite end of the dais, with a second blood donor facing the right side of the panel. A pot with five large sticks of burning incense sits at the base of the dais. Another masked priest stands to the left.
Priest: …that your order has experienced a loss.
Panel 6: Tomoya’s head and shoulders, from the front. His head is bowed, his eyes closed.
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