PAGE SEVENTY FIVE (four panels)
Panel 1.
Outside the ice skating rink, in the stands, Hammy and Biscuit find themselves both wrestling for control of the walnut. They are both grabbing it with both hands and struggling for control, growling.
Panel 2.
One of the night maintenance workers, wearing yellow hi vis and wheeling a cart with a bucket and mop in it, opens a door right near Hammy and Biscuit, who both freeze. The worker looks directly at them.
Panel 3.
Hammy and Biscuit, still frozen perfectly still, both watch with a mixture of relief and disbelief as the worker walks right past, as if he never saw anything. He whistles and music notes float upwards from him. He leaves the door ajar. On the other side of the door is a carpark.
Panel 4.
Verne reaches in about to steal the walnut out of Hammy and Biscuit's hands.
VERNE: And, yoink!
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PAGE SEVENTY SIX (four panels)
Panel 1.
Hammy and Biscuit both take off through the door to the carpark. Verne looks down at his hands to see there is no walnut there.
Panel 2.
The carpark is much darker than the rest of the shopping mall, with only the light diffusing out from the door, the light diffusing in from the city outside, and the faint glow of the lights on security cameras and smoke detectors on the ceiling. The car park is mostly empty, but there are a couple of pickup trucks parked there, which look to belong to the maintenance and security workers. Hammy and Biscuit both look very scared as they venture further into the carpark, hugging each other and the walnut as they tremble, looking around at their environment.
Panel 3.
Hammy and Biscuit, one hand each on the walnut, hide under a car while another car goes past with its big scary lights.
CAR: VRRMM...
Panel 4.
While under the car, Hammy looks back over his shoulder and notices a big, slightly rusty pipe with a bit of algae on it.
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PAGE SEVENTY SEVEN (four panels)
Panel 1.
Hammy snatches the nut out of Biscuit's hand, and Biscuit looks at him with a look of surprise and betrayal.
Panel 2.
Hammy races off into the pipe and Biscuit chases after him.
BISCUIT: I want the nut! My nut! I want it!
Panel 3.
Verne is walking out into the carpark, looking pretty scared himself.
Panel 4.
Verne hears Biscuit and goes to look under the car.
BISCUIT: (something something nut! something something want!)
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PAGE SEVENTY EIGHT (five panels)
Panel 1.
Hammy, still holding the walnut, exits the pipe onto a small empty, muddy creek bed. Up ahead of him is a big towering building with an enclosed water slide on one side of it. There is a big logo on the building that says "El Rancho Camelot Aquatic Center". The creekbed is littered with empty plastic wrappers, cigarette butts and the occasional abandoned shopping trolley. There is a discarded can of Mach 6 soft drink, laying on its side, revealing the words "please recycle me" printed on it in big letters.
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