D'Ni57er Universe — NPP Origin Story — The No Powders Party as Shabbat Technology — Full Comic Script and Canon Text
✦ · PART THREE · THE DECLARATION · ✦
Panel 7
Pure black panel. No image. White text only. Centred. This is the most important panel on the page. The declaration appears in stages — three lines with breath between them. The reader's eye slows down. There is no visual information competing with the words.
The roof of 23 Melby Ave · 3:17am · 14 Kislev 5786
NO POWDERS.
Not a rule.
A revelation.
The music is the hyperdrive.
The body is the ship.
It always was.
Panel 2
Bagel looks up at D'Ni57er from the roof. The dog's eyes in this panel catch the first light of dawn — not yet sunrise, but the first suggestion of it on the horizon. Bagel's eyes are completely clear. No Kelipah anywhere near them. Dogs cannot be touched by the Kelipah of Netzach. Bagel has been in pure Shabbat-drift mode his entire life. D'Ni57er looks down at Bagel. He understands something for the first time that Bagel has always known.
D'Ni57er
"You've been doing this your whole life."
Bagel
[does not reply — rests his head on D'Ni57er's knee]
Narrator Bagel's spark has been free and rising since the day he was born. He requires no hyperdrive. He is already drifting. He has always been drifting. This is why he always sees things first.
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Nitzotzot Panim el Panim · Sparks face to face