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Panel 1 [Adelaide and Ezra look on as men cut baleen from the whale jaw]

ADELAIDE:
But it’s something else to see it.

Panel 2 [Close up of the whale's blank eye rolled up in its socket, surrounded by whale lice living in its callosities and crawling around its eye. Adelaide's voice comes off camera.]

ADELAIDE:
Horror, blindly softened into…sweetening tea, or sharing a pipe, or lighting a child’s bedroom.

Panel 3 [Adelaide looks out at the water with a frown as Ezra glances over at her, rubbing his hands]

ADELAIDE:
How do we reconcile it?

EZRA:
Best to keep your hands busy, however you can. That’s how you make peace with it.

Panel 4 [Ezra starts to turn away from Adelaide, looking back over his shoulder at her.]

EZRA:
Trouble with idlin' is it gives you nothin’ but time to think and think and think. It’ll drive you mad if you let it.