Panel A
Alice pulls the surgical mask down from her face as she talks to Tommy.
TOMMY: "What's despair?"
ALICE: "Despair is the most evil thing in all the world. And only humans can make it."
Panel B
Alice turns away from Tommy and sets the scalpel down on the nightstand.
TOMMY: "But where does it come from?"
ALICE: "Despair is what happens when you let hope die. When you stop believing that things will ever get any better than they are right now."
Panel C
Alice turns to face Tommy as they talk.
ALICE: "Despair is the only thing that can truly kill love. Because hope is what sustains love."
TOMMY: "I don't understand."
Panel D
Alice kneels on the floor so she can look Tommy eye-to-eye.
ALICE: "Remember I told you love is a choice?"
TOMMY: "Yeah?"
ALICE: "Well. Despair is what happens when you don't choose."
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.