Commence countdown to it being discovered that Alexey is in a restricted part of the planet with an under-25 without authorization or permission leading to his subsequent arrest and the repeal of his wizarding license and poor old Admiral Caine here being court-martialed for his, thoughbeit unwitting, participation.
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Page 4 panel 1
Caine: (flips device over) They scratched out the damn serial number!
Panel 2
Alexey: I should mention that whoever has the other communicator is not one of us. She’s a Roman, by the sound of it.
Panel 3
Caine: You think there’s only one more?
Alexey: I don’t know. I have no idea how many of these are here and why. That’s why I contacted you.
Panel 4
Alexey: Well, that and the fact that my assistant and the rest of my research team has been arrested by a woman who wants to start a war that is somehow connected to whoever brought these things here.
Panel 5
Caine: (rubbing forehead in vexation) Fif. Teen. Years. It’s been fifteen years since I last heard from you and it was twenty before that.
Panel 6
Caine: Not one call, not one email asking about the husband and children, not even a gotdamn holiday card! I invited you to my promotion ceremony when they made me an admiral, and you never even responded!
Panel 7
Alexey: Now, Danny–
Panel 8
Caine: Nuh-uh! You do not Danny me corporal! You don’t speak to any of us in years, don’t even show up to Ss’kai’s funeral, and you call me here to say you lost an entire gotdamn research team and some poor kid and want me to clean up your gotdamn mess!
Panel 9
Alexey: (dismayed) … Ss’kai’s dead?
