Description
Panel One: Narration: "Next Day" Exterior shot of the side of a stone building with Gothic windows. There's a tree just off to the right, with its branches creeping into the frame. There's a bench in the grass next to the building, partially covered in the shade from teh tree. Cal is laying on the bench, napping, his head and shoulders in the shady half, with his arm covering his eyes. He's wearing jeans, a red button-up shirt with a geometric gold pattern, and dark grey fingerless gloves. There's a stone path alongside the bit of grass, and DJ is walking from the right hand side, leaving the path and going towards Cal.
Panel Two: Low angle, sort of Cal's POV shot of DJ from the hips up. His hands are in his pockets, and he's smiling a little bit as he looks down. The sun coming through the leaves gives his blonde hair a bit of a halo, and the air is full of shining dust motes and the sunlight is streaming through the leaves. It's all very dreamy. "Hey," he says.
Panel Three: Close-up of Cal's head and shoulders as he moves his arm up so he can see DJ. His eyes are huge as he looks at DJ (off-panel) and he looks a bit dazed or maybe shocked. "...... Hey," he says back. "Uhm... Where's...?" The effect of the speech bubbles is that he's having trouble talking.
Panel Four: High angle shot of the guys, from behind Fern. We see her back as she perches on the edge of the roof, her hands behind her back and her wraps loose and dangling around her arms. Fern is wearing a collared mint green shirt with high-waisted chocolate brown suspender shorts that gather at the cuffs, which are a bit above her knee. Cal and DJ are both looking up at her. "Hi, guys!" she says.
Between Panel Five and Six is a strip of her wrappings, pulled taught with the SFX: "TWANG!" above it.
Panel Five: Side view of the bench area, seen from the left. In the background, beyond the tree, is a stone-paved plaza surrounded by some buildings, with a some scattered trees and students milling around. Fern is looming over Cal, her shoes on the side of the building and her arms behind her back, holding tightly to her wrappings. Her face is not far above his own. "So," she asks, "What happened?" Cal is flailing and looks terrified because Fern went from up on the roof to hanging in his face in the space of seconds. "GAH!" he says. DJ is off to the side, hiding his smile behind his hand as he laughs. SFX: "HA HA!"
Author Note
Now it's DJ's turn to do the dazzling!
And Fern's turn to demonstrate one of her more... Unsettling habits. Of course, even DJ, shut-in that he is, has seen her do things like this.
Now you see why this page took so long! I tried to get away with less-detailed backgrounds, but it didn't work as well in terms of orienting the reader. Add to that the fancy lighting and the angles and foreshortening and... Yeah. It took a while, but I'm proud of the results, and I hope you like it, too!
See you soon!
Bran