Panel Six: Mephisto is still looking at Melrose, and Melrose is still staring into space.

MEPHISTO: ALL RIGHT, WHAT IS IT?

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Panel One: Still on them. Melrose looks down at Mephisto, slightly dazed from too much thinking and annoyed at being brought out of his thinking.

MELROSE: WHAT IS WHAT?

Panel Two: Close on Mephisto.

MEPHISTO: THAT LOOK. YOUR FATHER GOT THAT LOOK JUST BEFORE HE LAUNCHED SOME SCHEME THAT NEARLY DESTROYED ALL OF LAETIOR, WHICH HE DID VERY FREQUENTLY. SHOULD I BE WARY OF LARGE EXPLOSIONS?

Panel Three: On the two of them again. Melrose is amused and comes very close to laughing.

MELROSE: NO EXPLOSIONS. I WAS JUST IMAGINING MRS. RUTHERFORD'S FACE IF SHE KNEW THAT MY ACTUAL GUARDIAN WAS A TALKING MINK.

Panel Four: Mephisto tries to look vaguely insulted. Melrose is still smiling.

MEPHISTO: ERMINE. NOT MINK. ERMINE.

MELROSE: WHATEVER YOU SAY, PHIS.