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PANEL 30 Sanders reaches to peel an electrode off Neil’s neck. Neil doesn’t flinch. He stares right through Sanders. NEIL: Wait. It stopped. I'm out? SANDERS: (Nervous laugh) Post-sim disorientation is normal. Let’s get these off you.
PANEL 31 Neil’s eyes focus sharply on Sanders’ chin. NEIL: You better get that mole on your chin looked at, Operator.
PANEL 32 Sanders touches his chin self-consciously. SANDERS: Excuse me? NEIL: It's irregular. Melanin pooling edges. You’ve got three weeks before it metastasizes to your lymph nodes.
PANEL 33 Sanders stares, rattled. SANDERS: What are you, a doctor now?
PANEL 34 Neil stands up, moving with eerie, economic precision. His eyes are dead. NEIL: I have a little experience. In everything.
Tales from the Sanguine Box - Episode 1: The Long Weekend
Created by: Artalva - Brian Alvarez Publisher: Artalva Genre: Sci-Fi Horror / Dystopian Thriller Format: Webcomic

About Tales from the Sanguine Box: Tales from the Sanguine Box is a dark science-fiction webcomic exploring a futuristic justice system where criminals are sent to the mysterious Sanguine Box — a machine that doesn't imprison bodies, but steals time itself through subjective dilation.

This Episode: In Episode 1: The Long Weekend, petty thief Neil Fogheart is sentenced to a routine weekend in the Sanguine Box. But when a negligent technician leaves the system unmonitored during an unexpected glitch, a simple small-time sentence goes terribly wrong.

Main Character: Neil Fogheart — Petty thief sentenced to experimental time-dilation punishment
About the World of Tales from the Sanguine Box:

The Sanguine Box is a controversial experimental justice technology designed to rehabilitate criminals through extreme subjective time dilation. While only hours pass in the real world, prisoners experience centuries of incarceration inside simulated environments.