[Panel 1: Hare squints his eye and points inquisitively at Riker, asking, "'Go see your mom?' The same mom you ain't talked to in a decade?" Riker looks down and says dismally, "I said it was a stupid idea. I just thought, y'know..."]
[Panel 2: Riker looks off to the side and continues, "It's not like we have anything holding us here, now. If we're going to be starting over anyway..."]
[Panel 3: The Skull looks down thoughtfully and says, "... That's true. We're building back from nothing, but technically, we could do that anywhere." Hare pouts, saying, "I don't think I'm cut out for Smalltown, USA."]
[Panel 4: Riker looks up and to the side, thinking, as he says, "We couldn't stay there long-term, coal's too scarce. But we could stop in Wyoming to stock up--" Dee cuts in, asking Riker, "You really want to see her, don't you?"]
[Panel 5: Riker lifts a brow slightly, hedging a little vulnerability as he asks the others, "... Don't you guys have things you've always wanted to do?"]
[Panel 6: The Jack, The Skull, Hare, and Dee stand silently for a beat. No text.]
[Panel 7: Same shot. Everyone looks at The Jack as he says, "I want to see the Cubs beat the White Sox. At Wrigley Field."]
[Panel 8: Riker looks at The Jack, one brow raised high in surprise, and says, "I didn't know you liked baseball." The Jack smiles and says, "Well, it's hard to play with your arms tied up." From off screen, Dee begins to speak, saying, "I..."]
[Panel 9: Dee in profile, saying, "I want to see the Everglades. Lake Okeechobee." Below her text, a simple drawing of The Jack's head exclaims excitedly, "We could break into Disney World!"]
[Panel 10: The Skull, with the hint of a determined smile, says, "I want to climb a mountain."]
[Panel 11: Hare lifts his hands in a halting gesture, eye closed. He says, "Guys, guys. You're all thinking too small."]
[Panel 12: Hare's hands shift into a wider, showy gesture, and his eye is starry as he says, "We gotta go to Vegas." 'Vegas' is in a fancy font and surrounded by shine lines.]
[Panel 13: From off panel, The Skull and Hare converse, The Skull saying, "We gotta get kicked out of Vegas." Hare replies, "Ha ha ha! Now that's what I'm talking about!" The Jack looks over at Scratch, whose eye is shadowed. The Jack asks, "Scratch? Is there something you'd like to do?"]
[Panel 14: Scratch, in profile, brow furrowed in frustration as he cries. The Jack asks from off panel, "... Scratch?" End ID]
The soft words from Claire cut Natasha like ice. Children are something that she cannot give even if she wanted to. Babies can be cute but in their world they are easy attachments to prey on.
After taking in a slow breath she releases, “I’ve known. Not a day goes by where I don’t think of that.. even though I cannot carry a child.”
She looks up and smiles not hiding from her closest companion, “Don’t worry, one day I know you will have a small you running around. Probably shooting arrows at us.”
