Crumb Trail — The Endless Trail, Page 8
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Page 8. An eye-level panel. Momo half-turns and gestures at the floor with her magnifying glass, her huge amber eyes wide and startled. Behind her the pale dusty boot-prints have clearly multiplied into a dense curving crowd — all the same single boot, overlapping as they loop around — because she has been walking the same circle again and again. MOMO: 'More of them. A whole gang.'
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The chibi girl in the yellow coat half-turns and gestures at the floor with her magnifying glass, eyes wide and startled. The floorboards behind her are now covered in many overlapping pale dusty boot-prints looping around the room.
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Momo spots a trail of pale dusty boot-prints on the clubroom floor and declares that an intruder is circling the Tiny Case Agency. She follows the tracks around the room, magnifying glass out — and each lap she is certain there are MORE of them, a whole gang closing the ring. Ganta tells her on page five that they are her own boots. She hushes him and keeps circling, adding fresh prints with every step, until the trail loops right back to the two little boots on her own feet. Unable to admit she spent the afternoon chasing herself, Momo declares she surrounded the gang and drove them off, closes the case, and falls asleep inside the ring of prints. Ganta delivers the verdict once she is out: she walked in a circle.