Panel 1: Still sitting together, Darrell asks Jillian: “Can I ask how long it took you to figure it out?”

Jillian looks down into her mug, a sad, wistful smile on her face: “Oh, I think deep in my heart I always knew.”

Panel 2: She looks up, and suddenly she looks far away as she thinks back: “It wasn’t something I let myself think about though, not during my lifetime at least.”

Panel 3: A flashback panel toned in sepia shows a small family: husband, wife, and child no more than a year old. They’re dressed in simple 16th century attire, the husband wearing a jerkin over a plain white shirt and dark pants, the wife wearing a simple dress with a bonnet over her hair. The wife is holding the child in her arms as the husband reaches for the child’s hand, smiling. The husband appears to be Jillian a very long time ago, with shorter, messier hair and faint stubble across her face. Over the scene, Jillian narrates: “I had a family, a wonderful wife and a daughter, and I was happy with that.”

Panel 4: The flashback scene changes, now showing the past Jillian alone in the middle of a dirt road surrounded by forest. She’s fallen to her knees in the road and has buried her face in her hands in grief as she cries. The narration continues: “Once I was a dauor though, and all of that was gone... well…”

Panel 5: The flashback changes once again. Past Jillian stands now in a room in front of a window, examining a bodice as she holds it questioningly against her chest. The narration continues: “I figured if I was already as damned as I could be, I might as well wear a gown and a bodice while I was at it.”

Panel 6: Past Jillian stands now in front of a mirror, and she is transformed. She’s wearing a nobles attire: a gown with a high neckline and a flat, conical torso, with a skirt that curves dramatically away from her hips in the fashion of the French farthingale. Her hair is still short but her face is clean shaven, and she smiles at her reflection in the mirror. The narration continues: “So I did, and I never stopped.”

Panel 7: Back in the present, Jillian smiles to herself as she finishes: “Well, clearly I did stop seeing as I’m not wearing them now, but you know what I mean.”

Darrell: “Yeah I get it.”