Nyra the mask maker | DragonflyFox

ALT Panel 1: The sweatshirt girl stands on a tiled street outside, hanging a small clothing shopping bag with a logo that looks like a t-shirt and a cap from both hands. She looks down pensively, thinking "I can't believe I spent MONEY on just some stupid clothes..." Panel 2: She continues looking down, her frown slightly tensing. "What a dumb, frivolous way to spend money," she thinks, "I feel bad." Panel 3: The convenience store clerk prances up to her, holding up 4 large bags of clothing from that store. He smiles innocently, saying "HEYYYYYYY~ I finally finished checking out! Thanks for waiting." Panel 4: The sweatshirt girl smiles and almosts lets out a laugh, sounding like "hrmk. "OK I guess I don't feel TOO bad," she thinks.

ALT Panel 5: The clerk walks beside her, carrying his bags and smiling, and talks to her. "Hey so, I know it's funny I haven't asked this yet," he says, "I guess I'm still in kinda in 'corner store clerk' mode." Panel 6: He turns his head towards her and tilts it with curiosity. "But, what is your name?" he continues. Panel 7: "Valerie," the sweatshirt girl replies, walking beside him. "'Val' for short. I kinda prefer Val. Yours?" Panel 8: A more zoomed out view of the two strolling along a pedestrian-only street, with decorative trees, bushes, and store signs in the background and the ground tiled with a mixture of large and small square tiles. The clerk says "ADRIAN, technically, but my friends call me AUDREY. It was originally a mean nickname given to me in high school."

ALT Panel 9: Audrey winks at Valerie cutely and points at his face with a wide smile. "Jokes on them though, I think it's CUTE," he says, "Call me Audrey." Panel 10: Val smiles back at him guardedly. She says "It is ... nice to meet you, Audrey." Beside her, a small blue imp in a white toga that looks like her pops up representing part of her mind. "Do not trust this moid. Do NOT trust this moid," it warns, "He wants something from you." Panel 11: Back view of the two walking down the center of the pedestrian street, looking at each other and carrying their shopping bags. Audrey speaks, saying "Val, if you don't mind me asking, what do you like to do? Like, on your free time?" Panel 12: Val smiles nervously an sweats a bit, replying "I guess I play video games, mostly." The blue Val-imp pops up next to her head, looking her directly in the eyes and saying "AND get mad online."

ALT Panel 13: Audrey holds his fists to his torso in excitement, his eyes sparkling and god-beams shining down from the heavens, as he says "That's so COOL!! Are you like, REALLY GOOD AT GAMES??" Val replies "I'm ... okay at them," looking away. The blue Val-imp also chimes in, adding "and it's not that cool." Panel 14: Audrey's hand gently pulls Val's with two fingers, the rest committed to holding his many shopping bags. He thinks "SORRY, SORRY, I GOTTA show you this. There's a really cool video game place over here." Val thinks "No ..." Panel 15: Audrey is leading Val towards an arcade with an open metal shutter and many glowing machines on the inside. A sign beside it says '3 FRAME ARCADE' and his a picture of a guy in a headband throwing a punch between the lettering '3 FRAME' and 'ARCADE'. Val thinks "ANYWHERE but this place". Panel 16: Val's face is a wide-eyed expression of pure dread, her jaw slack, her form dramatically backlit, as she thinks "They KNOW me here."