Robert: The Autumn's Lost Son || Mr. 404
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![A man in a winter coat and sunglasses and scarf, sneering as he consider his life choices, gesturing at a pair of images superimposed onto a shrub. The text above his head reads "WHERE? HERE."
The first, a screenshot from Google reading:
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Address: 88 Cawthra Ave Unit 200, Toronto, ON M6N 3C2
Get There: [IMAGE OF TRAIN] 41 mins· [IMAGE OF CAR] 28 mins
Phone: (416) 762-2149
Hours: Open · Closes 6 p.m.
And below that, a screenshot from the General Mercer Holiday Market homepage. Reading:
General Mercer Jr. Public School
30 Turnberry Ave.
FREE ADMISSION
DROP BY FOR A FESTIVE MARKET WITH CRAFTS, TREATS, & BOOKS](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rzszyig2svxxk6ff5f4jovgy/bafkreidv4sz46mfqmryn5cpuezcbndffbdd3a4rcsmamk5hx5nhzd7ul2u)
![Black and white text. Reads:
The mountains would be migrating soon.
It was clear by the way the snow and boulders rolled off their peaks and the birds flew from their stony backs. If Talisa squinted, she could see them shift in place, teetering as though they were about to topple over. In truth, their countless root-like legs were wrestling themselves from the soft soil. Before long, they would begin their long march to find new stretches of earth to plant themselves.
Talisa wished she could have stayed to watch them leave. Mountains only migrated once every hundred or so years. The last time she saw one move, she was a child, and too young to appreciate their majesty. Not that her parents let her get close enough to do so. From the safety of their colony, they watched the mountain by their colony shuffle mindlessly eastward, knocking over trees and ambling through Liberation Lake, while Talisa and her parents were safe behind blast-proof windows at least ten feet thick. Other moments from that day did not come to her as clearly. Her father insisted she cried and waved goodbye to the giant living rock. Why she didn’t remember that, who could say?
She rested by her speeder as its hydrobattery finished charging in the river. The trees swayed in a calm breeze. Puffy seeds rode by on a gust of air, rooting themselves on a mossy outcrop in the distance. A mothbat settled on the long stem of a flower with prismatic petals, colours shifting as the light danced along its sharpened petals. Birdsongs and the babbling of the creek behind her tickled her ears. It was soon interrupted by the chime of her battery, and an electronic voice calling out “Fully Charged.”
Kicking herself off the speeder, she trudged over. The top half of the battery, a brass ring angled upward for her to grasp, breached the surface of the water. From beneath the stream came a radiant cyan light, and a low hum.
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Without hesitating, she stepped one foot into the waters and reached over to collect the bulky, lantern-shaped fuel cell.
After a thorough towelling to ensure it didn’t short out the vehicle’s insides, she loaded it in. Please, not like last time, she said to herself. Internal processors revved up and her ride was alive again. The speeder evoked the image of a wingless, legless bird, and when its headlamps and side-lights flashed on, the steel body appeared as though it was decorated with feathers. Fishing her gloves from her pockets and the flight jacket off of the duskox-leather seat, Officer Cadet Talisa Severn put herself behind the handlebars and switched the machine on. Her speeder huffed and lifted itself off the ground.
As she slid goggles over her head, in the corner of her eye, she noticed the smallest mountain in the range was moving forward.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rzszyig2svxxk6ff5f4jovgy/bafkreico4mjzgvsalpemjuz2fzs7qtfqlx5uvnlwv4dvc73u2nw44qtnjq)
![Eight-panel comic page.
PANEL 01
WIDE PANEL showing a buff man, GYRO BRONSON, standing between a young woman, HELENA HATHAWAY, and a BEAST rising out of the ocean, something halfway between a Komodo Dragon and a coral reef. The two humans are standing at a beach at sunset.
NARRATIVE BOX: THE PLANET VADRIA, AT DUSK!
NARRATIVE BOX: OUR HERO, GYRO BRONSON, HAVING ESCAPED THE UNDERSEA KINGDOM WITH HIS LADY LOVE, HELENA HATHAWAY, FINDS HIMSELF FACE-TO-FACE WITH A TERRIBLE FOE!
PANEL 02
Small panel of GYRO with HELENA looking terrified.
HELENA: OH, GYRO! DO SOMETHING!
GYRO: DON’T WORRY! WE’VE BEEN ON LAND LONG ENOUGH THAT THE SOLAR BATTERIES ON MY PLASMA PISTOL SHOULD BE CHARGED!
PANEL 03
Small shot of GYRO taking a BLASTER off his hip. It shimmers as he readies it.
GYRO: HALF-POWER?! THIS BETTER WORK!
PANEL 04
Show GYRO blasting the BEAST and sending it reeling into the sea behind it.
GYRO: TAKE THAT, MONSTER!
SFX: BZAP!
PANEL 05
Shot of the BEAST taking the brunt of the blast and reeling back into the sea behind it.
SFX: BATCHOW!
BEAST: SKEEEEEEE
PANEL 06
Show HELENA and GYRO embracing as GYRO looks on at the smouldering beast’s body in the foreground. He looks firm, but also remorseful.
HELENA: OH, GYRO, YOU DID IT!
GYRO: ALL IN A DAY’S WORK.
PANEL 07
Panel showing a retrofuturist SHUTTLE flying close to the ground, nearing a hillside.
HELENA [from off]: GYRO, LOOK! IT’S THE GALAHAD! THE OTHERS FOUND US!
GYRO [from off]: WE BETTER GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE TROUBLE SHOWS UP!
PANEL 08
Long panel of GYRO and HELENA running to the ship as a pair of lobster-humanoids crawl out of the rocks.
GYRO: UH-OH! CRAYMEN!
HELENA: OH, WHY’D YOU HAVE TO SAY THAT, GYRO!
NARRATIVE BOX: NEXT WEEK: THE CLAWS OF CARNAGE!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rzszyig2svxxk6ff5f4jovgy/bafkreifypohv3suv6xc5rdye7pp5uejem55bcjhh2y46hniyrumw7f56h4)
