Purifier creator commentary Pg.28 (Patreon)

Writing one half of a phone conversation that still works is a challenge. One needs to be able to infer the unspoken part from context cues and those can be tricky to add while making the conversation still sound natural. I think I've done my best here. It would have made things easier to introduce a second character to "cut" between, but I wanted to keep focussed on Tilly for the end of this sequence and chapter. Ultimately, the person on the other end of the line may be irrelevant and never revealed as the scene is about Tilly.I'm dreadfully off-model and my grasp of anatomy is still fairly weak, but I pay a lot of attention to body language in my comics. This was a vital necessity in my prior work, Dregs aka Drainers where nearly all the characters had face-obscuring respirators and had to emote largely using gesture. I've kept that same technique with the addition of facial expressions to present character.The way Tilly moves, fidgets and multitasks between phone, cigarette, and cup makes for interesting visuals through a sequence that is otherwise pure dialogue and hopefully emphasizes her penchant for overwork.The ominous remarks about building construction foreshadows some CRO operations yet to come. What better way to sterilize infection that to incinerate it?