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Flowers in May.
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- Aquila remembers.
- LOVE. We see AVI, inside the castle, with no face.
- The longest time ago. An ancient mural of a shephard in a field with several goats. The shephard's face is crossed out.
- The castle.
- From ANNIE FOREVER -- ANNIE meets the Knife and Dime.
- THE FIRST TIME HE SMILED AT ME. Avi, a long time ago, smiling with an eyeless face.
- From ANNIE FOREVER -- a lineup of the three antagonists from that strip.
- From the Hourly Comics Day strips -- Avi brings Aquila a blanket.
- The longest time ago. The world she left behind, abandoned. Ruins, overgrown.
- WHEN HIS SMILE BECAME REAL. Avi, shortly after "The Death Box and the Life Box," finally smiling with his full face.
