Unused punchline for September 22, 2018 (Patreon)

(also amber's line in the first panel was rewritten to have a better conversational flow)

(final strip above)

I thought Amber's line in the final panel cannibalized the strip that follows too much.  Ethan needs to come into his accusation clean.  That's about all.  I rewrote like a dozen other final panels to replace it, but didn't save any of them except the one that actually ran.  

One bit I do remember is deciding at one point to keep Amber's "alarmingly cute" phrase with Ethan suggesting in return "alarmingly cute or acutely alarming????" which lasted, like, 2 seconds, but well