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Layout — 5 panels
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Dev at the Amp Box. Sticks in hand. He turns the volume dial — past 10. To the hand-painted 11.
- DEVHOLD THE CHORD, JESSE.
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Jesse, holding the chord. The green guitar's pickups blazing now — full power, full bloom. The chord ringing. The Operative fires the weapon. The pulse rips across the warehouse — and bends in midair, deflected by the displacement field building around the brothers.
- SFXVVVRRRROOOOOMP
- SFXwwwhsshhhhh(deflection)
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The pulse lands in a crate of confiscated tambourines. The tambourines explode outward in a shower of jingles.
- SFXJINGGLLLEEEEEEEEEEEE(small)
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Dev hits the snare drum on the floor beside the Amp Box. Seven-over-four shuffle. The Amp Box reads it. The chord-and-shuffle combination unlocks.
- DEVONE — TWO — THREE — FOUR — FIVE — SIX — SEVEN —
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The portal opens. Directly behind the brothers. Clean green. Wide. The biggest portal of the book yet — a doorway twenty feet tall, spanning the back wall of the warehouse, reflecting in the wall of hanging guitars. The Operative — eyes wide, weapon raised — sees the portal and understands. They missed the window. They have just been outplayed.
No copy.