Transcript:

Page 36 panel 1
(Bradley is scratching his neck where the broken collar knicked him. It’s all red there)

Panel 2
Lysander: (gently taking Bradley’s head in his hands and tilting it) Is it alright? Let me see…

Panel 3
Bradley: (swats him away) Leave it alone, I’m fine!

Panel 4
(Lysander sits down dejectedly on the single bed next to him)

Panel 5
Bradley: Why are you treating me like this?

Panel 6
Lysander: What? Like how?

Panel 7
Bradley: Gently. Like… like I’m going to break. Like…

Is it because… you think I’m a girl? Because–

Panel 8
Lysander: No! I promise, it’s not that! Until I was thirteen I didn’t even know there were other sexes. Dwarfs are all just… Dwarfs. Unless they want you to call them he or she, we just use neh. I don’t… I don’t think it matters to them what they have… you know…

Panel 9
Bradley: (tearing up) Then why are you treating me like this?!

Panel 10
Lysander: Because I saw you break!