[ID: A black and white comic of Gerard and Elody's conversation from episode 14 of Neverafter. As they talk, they are drawn on the left (Gerard) and the right (Elody), and their text is mostly aligned to their respective sides.
The first series of panels shows three pairs of illustrations of them as they speak, separated into individual boxes. They are first in the present, a mostly-frog prince and a battle-scarred princess; then a mostly human prince with a frog's eyes and an adult princess; then a pair of young kids, with Gerard clearly dirty and weathered from living in a swamp. They are looking at each other, brows furrowed and lips slightly parted, their expressions echoing back through time. The background of the first pair is white, the middle light grey, and the youngest one a darker grey. The gap between their boxes gets bigger as it goes back in time-- it is almost touching in the first and much wider in the third. Under each pair of illustrations are parts of their conversation.
First:
- Gerard: Um, I, I just, ... I'm sorry.
- Elody: I can't blame you, Gerard.
Second:
- Gerard: I know that you've been dealing with this for much longer than I've been, and I'm, I'm sorry I made you do that alone.
- Elody: Maybe you were just aware that no matter what you did, the story people would tell about you was that there was a period of years you were a frog.
Third:
- Gerard: And that my desire to... keep our, our happy ending meant that I was pretending that the bad times weren't here,
- Elody: And I never faulted you for believing that it had ended. And I think I carry a lot of anger, because the way I was brought up led me to believe that at the end of extraordinary and unprecedented things, you just, float.
Elody's next line is centered: "Like a lily pad on a pond."
- Elody continues: But it never really stopped. And all of the things they don't tell stories about, were infinitely harder. And... I assumed you would come with me, and I had a lot of anger and resentment that you weren't.
- Gerard: and that meant that I wasn't there for you, in the bad times.
The next pair of panels shows them no longer looking at each other. The background is the darkest grey, and the gap between them is the widest. Gerard is a human prince, looking down with a furrowed brow. Elody is bloodstained and in her armor, blood on her cheek in the same place as her scar in the present. She looks weary and saddened.
- Elody: But when I saw your body in Elegy, I don't know.
- Gerard: So I, I don't expect anything of you, and, ... I'm, I'm rambling,
- Elody: A lot of that anger left.
- Gerard: but I just wanted to say I'm sorry.
- Elody: So I appreciate you saying what you needed to say.
The two of them are shown, at a distance this time. Gerard is still a human prince, and he looks down across the page at Elody, who is kneeling and holding a bloodied body with a glass shard sticking out of it; Gerard's. They are colored in the same dark grey.
The present Elody, shaded white with light grey as if her face is illuminated, asks: "If you had never found me, if I hadn't been able to come here, what would you be doing now." The panel crosses the page, and the text is on the left, where Gerard's has been.
Gerard, still a human prince, but with the same light shading, responds: "...If I could be honest, Elody, if I didn't know you were out there, fighting, I wouldn't have done it. I wouldn't have done anything." A closeup of his eyes shows him looking up, as if at something he admires. "But you inspire me." His text is on the right, where Elody's has been.
Only the lower half of Elody's face is seen in the next two panels. The first she is shaded light grey, her mouth slightly open as if she is struck by his comment. The second she is shaded a darker grey, and closes her lips in a tight frown.
She says "I'm going to... I just need a minute." She is seen from behind on the right, still shaded mostly dark grey, as she leaves Gerard behind. On the left, Gerard is mostly a frog again as he watches her leave sadly.He looks down, centered in frame, and realizes he is sitting like a frog.
Throughout the next panels, he starts on the left and slowly moves across the page to the right with each illustration. A closeup shows his stricken expression as he looks down, and then him with the same expression as a small, no longer humanoid, frog. His shading turns to a dark grey. A stark black heron looms over him as he crouches on some lily pads, the heron's beak open as if to eat him. In grey text to his right are Elody's words: "A condition was met that never should have been met and you should have been swallowed by a heron in a lake outside the castle." A panel, shaded entirely in dark grey, shows human Gerard looking down with the same expression as the frog.
The final drawing shows Gerard from behind, still crouched in a frog pose. He is slightly right of center, and mostly white again, though there are grey shadows in front of him. He says: "... Concerning."]
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