Crumb Trail — The Shape on the Wall, Page 13
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Page 13. A wide closing panel, the same slightly high angle and framing as page 1, but the sun is lower now and the wall is completely bare — no shadow at all. Momo lies flat out asleep on the floorboards, coat pooled around her, eyes closed in happy curves, hugging her recovered magnifying glass. Biscuit is curled fast asleep inside her open cardboard box. Ganta sits on the floor by the desk with his juice box, looking down at the sleeping detective and delivering the true verdict now that nobody is awake to argue. GANTA: 'It was the cat. In the sun.'
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Wide closing view matching the opening, the wall now bare with no shadow. The chibi girl lies fast asleep on the clubroom floor hugging her magnifying glass. The chibi boy in the cat-ear hoodie sips his juice box nearby and looks down at her, and the small white cat is curled asleep in an open cardboard box.
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A huge horned shadow looms across the clubroom wall in the low afternoon sun, and Momo is certain a beast has broken into the Tiny Case Agency. She stalks the monster as it grows larger and larger, corners it, and pounces at the wall — only to find it bare. The "intruder" was Biscuit the whole time, sitting up in the sunbeam on the boxes with her ears throwing the horns. Ganta says so on page five. Momo declares she drove the beast off, closes the case, and falls asleep.