That rope’s bad…

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Panel 1 [Close up of the line continuing to whizz through the water]

Panel 2 [Close up of the line going slack as the sky darkens]

Panel 3 [Rope in foreground slack in the water, men warily watching from the boat. Ezra whispers to them while tightly holding the lance]

EZRA:

Haul in the slack. Careful. Lawrence, you coil the line as it comes in.

Panel 4 [Josué, Edward Barker, and George Lee start to cautiously take in the line]

Panel 5 [The line abruptly goes taut again, cutting through the page with a hissing sound]

Panel 6 [Close up of Josué's hands letting go of the line, rope burn across his palms and blood upon the line]

JOSUE:
Aghhh!!